By Greg Bishop/Illinois Radio Network

SPRINGFIELD – By the time the veto session wrapped up in the House Wednesday, representatives overrode 11 of the governor’s vetoes.

The House was unanimous in their support to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of the so-called Debt Transparency Act. Some Republicans who opposed the bill initially flipped.

Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, supported the measure back in April and on Wednesday.

”It kind of threw me for a loop when the bill came across because it seems so obvious,” McCombie said. “As a mayor of Savanna, anytime that I needed anything from my comptroller it was literally just a moment to get a number of one of our several accounts of where we were at and what was due. So to me, this really was no nonsense.”

State comptroller Susana Mendoza praised lawmakers for the move, calling it “a huge victory for taxpayers who will soon be able to get a better look at the state’s pile of unpaid bills – that’s more than $16 billion that has been run up in their name.”

That measure now heads to the Senate, where an override is likely.

Representatives also racked up more than 100 votes to override the governor on a bill to reimburse substitute teachers for licenses.

Rauner didn’t lose every veto he signed that were brought up Wednesday in the House.

Several measures didn’t get overridden. One was a measure Democrats said would use $10 million to create a nonprofit workers compensation insurance company. Supporters said that will provide competition in the workers’ comp insurance marketplace.

State Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, R-Jacksonville, said the state doesn’t do anything well so why trust it to run an insurance company.

“If we do this we will be doing the same thing,” Davidsmeyer said. “We will be overpromising, underdelivering, competing with our constituents, competing with the businesses that actually pay the taxes that go to pay for schools and universities.”

The Senate is off on Thursday The House is back in at 10.