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House Speaker Madigan moves to expel Derrick Smith

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State House Speaker Michael Madigan is moving ahead with plans to expel indicted representative Derrick Smith.

Madigan put House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie on a six-Democrat panel to consider Smith's expulsion

Minority leader Tom Cross still has to name the Republican side of the panel.

Smith is charged with accepting a bribe to endorse a childcare center.

No date has been set for the panel's first meeting.

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