Mulligan to Serve on Special Summit on Senior Services

January 31, 2003

Springfield, IL…State Representative Rosemary Mulligan (R-Des Plaines) has been selected to serve on Speaker Michael Madigan’s Special Summit on Senior Services. The group will hold meetings to discuss issues critical to senior citizens.

"I am honored to have been chosen to participate in the summit," said Mulligan. "We are proud of our efforts to expand Illinois’s Circuit Breaker pharmaceutical assistance program, which has received enthusiastic national recognition. We were also successful in persuading the federal government to use Illinois as the site for the SeniorCare pilot program — and still more needs to be done.

"The summit will allow members to study in depth the problems confronting seniors, and we will be using the information gathered to develop new policies addressing their concerns," she added.

The first meeting is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3 in Room 114 of the State Capitol in Springfield. The first meeting will focus on lowering the cost of prescription drugs.

Two nationally recognized experts will attend and offer testimony, Mulligan said. They are Richard Cauchi, who monitors state prescription drug programs for the National Conference of State Legislatures, and Cheryl Rivers, executive director of the National Legislative Conference on Prescription Drugs.

The meeting is the first of several being planned in various locations throughout the state over the next few months.

For more information, please contact Representative Mulligan at (847) 297-6533.