The ethics investigation that targeted Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, is officially over. He said he’s been “exonerated” by the House Ethics Committee, which dismissed an ethics complaint against him on Monday by a 7-2 vote. He’d been accused of...
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, is not saying much about why he voted “no” on a bill that would create a code of conduct for members of the U.S. Supreme Court and their staff. But he did tell Missourinet he supports the idea of ethics standards for...
Legislation to enforce ethical behavior on Supreme Court justices is moving forward in the U.S. Senate. U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, joined with nine fellow Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee in voting “no” on a bill that would impose a code of...
Secretary of State Jason Kander is proposing what he calls “new, sweeping legislation to improve Missouri’s worst-in-the-nation ethics and campaign finance laws and make Missouri a national leader in good government.” The measure is being sponsored by Rep....
State house Republicans are working on their version of ethics legislation. House Speaker Tim Jones (R-Eureka) has been talking about ethics legislation since August. He favors a bill that passed out of the 2010 legislative session, the language of which was thrown...