Progress Illinois has a post about John Shimkus' continued use of a thoroughly discredited claim that a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions would cost each American family roughly $3,100 a year. The number keeps making the rounds among Congressional Republicans even after an author of the report they reference informed them that their claim is wildly inaccurate.
Shimkus repeated the same preposterous number Tuesday morning to the Springfield Citizens Club. I noticed several people in the audience shake their head in disbelief and mutter to those around them that it isn't true. Since Shimkus likes quoting the Bible maybe he should refresh his memory of what it says about bearing false witness.
I appreciate what Progress Illinois is doing to point out Shimkus' outrageous and misleading statements in Congress. They're finally doing the job that news outlets in the district should have been doing for years.