by admin | Apr 29, 2013 | News
Conferees from the House and Senate will get together to hammer out differences in the two chambers’ proposed spending plans this week. House leaders say the Senate budget proposal passed a week ago spends more than the House’s, and exceeds the consensus...
by admin | Apr 9, 2013 | News
The House has given initial approval to a bill meant to keep a United Nations’ policy regarding property use out of the state. It’s called Agenda 21, a non-binding 1992 agreement from the United Nations on sustainable development. Conservatives widely...
by admin | Mar 28, 2013 | News
The state House has sent its $24.8 billion dollar proposed budget to the Senate. House Democrats remain critical of Republican leadership for rejecting the inclusion of Medicaid expansion. Governor Jay Nixon proposed expanding Medicaid using about $890 million dollars...
by admin | Mar 27, 2013 | News
The House is poised to send the Senate a $25 billion budget that does not include Medicaid expansion. House Democrats offered several amendments that would have plugged the Governor’s proposal to expand Medicaid in Missouri back into the new state spending plan...
by admin | Nov 27, 2012 | News
House Democrats have announced they will file ethics and campaign finance reform legislation based on a bill that was unanimously approved by a bipartisan House committee in 2010. That bill, HB 2300, did not pass. It was replaced by what Democrats say was a weaker...