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The legislation comes after several unsuccessful attempts to stop public funds from going to abortion providers or affiliates through the budget process. The bill now goes to Gov. Mike Parson.
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Asked why Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher didn’t recuse himself from the start, or at least when subpoena requests started showing up to his office, one of his attorneys said Plocher recused himself “when it mattered.”
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The Senate begins work Tuesday on Missouri’s roughly $50 billion state budget, with questions still swirling around renewing a tax that funds Medicaid and a GOP infighting that could derail the process.
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The closest Plocher came to commenting on the investigation during a Sunday interview was when he, once again, declared that he felt the investigation took too long.
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The Missouri House's debate largely focused on Bayer, the company with U.S. headquarters in St. Louis that purchased Monsanto — the original manufacturer of RoundUp pesticide.
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The legislation passed the Missouri House by the bare minimum on Thursday. It now goes to the governor’s desk.
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The passage of the supplemental budget bill is the first piece of legislation passed by both chambers in the 2024 Missouri legislative session.
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Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher and his allies complained for weeks that the ethics investigation into his alleged misconduct was dragging out unnecessarily. But, it turns out the delay may have been the Speaker himself.
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The report, which was voted down by the Missouri House committee, concluded the inquiry lacked direct evidence of ethical misconduct but alleged the speaker hindered the investigation’s efforts to get to the truth.
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Missouri Democrats filibustered for more than 11 hours before sending the bill back to the House for a final vote.