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Topic: Missouri House of Representatives


In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Missouri House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Missouri State House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly.
It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 31,000 residents.
As of 2005, the party representation in the House of Representatives was:
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missouri_House_of_Representatives   (75 words)

  
 Small Business Administration: Office of Advocacy - 02/10/03-Thomas M. Sullivan, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, testified ...
I am especially pleased to be testifying before the newly created Small Business Committee of the Missouri House of Representatives, so thank you for the honor of testifying before you, and of having the chance to learn from you today.
Missouri is lucky to be one of the states that has had, and continues to have, elected officials and public policy makers who understand the importance of small business.
The House of Representatives in the State of North Dakota has just based passed legislation based on our model by a vote of 88-1, and similar legislation is moving through the Rhode Island General Assembly.
www.sba.gov /ADVO/laws/testh03_0210.html   (1637 words)

  
 AIM Applauds House Action on Unemployment Comp
Missouri’s unemployment program went bankrupt in March of 2003, and owes the federal government nearly $200 million in loans.
House Bill 1268 combines accelerated payments by employers with limitations on benefits to drug users and others guilty of misconduct in order to bring the program out of bankruptcy.
AIM represents its membership before the Missouri legislature, state regulatory agencies, the courts, and the public.
www.aimo.com /releases/uchelp.htm   (509 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Dick Gephardt
Gephardt, Richard A., born in 1941, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri from 1977 to 2005 and a congressional leader from 1989 to 2003.
Dick Gephardt was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
In the House, Gephardt was viewed as a moderate who supported labor unions and workers’ rights.
ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581618/Dick_Gephardt.html   (284 words)

  
 Modern Brewery Age: Missouri House of Representatives approves .08 BAC standard - Brief Article
Representatives' 129-9 vote Thursday night sent the measure to the Senate for consideration before Friday's 6 p.m.
House leaders had objected to a few provisions in a version negotiated earlier.
As passed by the House, the mea sure contains a $25 fee on drunken driving arrests for spinal cord research, and interlocks would be required only on cars operated by the person convicted of drunken driving.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3469/is_22_52/ai_76296790   (608 words)

  
 Missouri Progressive Politics: News, Issues and Activist Supplies
Missouri's politics are devastatingly dominated by a collection of wealthy insiders who succeed in shutting the grassroots out of the process most of the time.
Missouri's fundamentalist establishment is best represented by the glittery zoo of Branson, where evangelicals re-create a mythical past when righteousness and racism were not seen as mutually exclusive.
Missouri would be in great trouble if it were not for the progressive grassroots folks who resist the reactionary agenda of the religious Republicans represented by the likes of Minister Ashcroft.
www.irregularnews.com /states/missouri.html   (471 words)

  
 House of Representatives --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The House of Representatives shares equal responsibility for lawmaking with the U.S. Senate.
As conceived by the framers of the Constitution, the House was to represent the popular will, and its members were to be directly elected by the people.
The number of representatives from each state is proportional to the size of the state's population.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9063232   (930 words)

  
 mooney
If a large number of representatives are new each session, and if legislators do not devote at least several terms each to law-making, the legislature is a weaker institution as compared to those other political institutions that do have a substantial number of members with long experience, such as the bureaucracy and interest groups.
The state legislature is not representative of the general electorate's party affiliation primarily because registered Republican voters are relatively evenly distributed around the state at the county level, and counties tend to be the basis for state legislative districts.
In the West Virginia House of Delegates, districts are represented by from one to seven delegates, with an average of 1.8 per district under the recently passed districting plan for the 1990s.
www.polsci.wvu.edu /ipa/mono/html/mooney.html   (9132 words)

  
 Robert Seipp for State Representative
This bill is the House substitute for a Senate initiated proposal that would have increased the general sales tax by three-eighths of a cent on the dollar and raised the gasoline tax by six cents per gallon.
The Missouri Senate is expected to debate next week a proposal sponsored by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, that would sell about a quarter of the state's share of payments from a settlement with tobacco companies in exchange for a lump sum of roughly $500 million.
When Robert learned that the current representative for district 93, Pat Secrest, could not run for re-election in 2002 because of term limits he realized how important it was going to be for our future to keep this seat in Republican hands, and how hard the liberal Democrats would work to take it.
pages.prodigy.net /rcseipp   (7223 words)

  
 Facts about the Missouri Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The average age of current members of the Missouri Senate is 55.
At least 42 Missouri Senators have attained higher statewide office or became a U.S. senator or congressman for Missouri.
Twenty-five current state senators have served previously in the Missouri House of Representatives.
www.senate.state.mo.us /facts.htm   (314 words)

  
 Missouri House of Representative Gets Slow Start
A quarter of Missouri's legislative session is over, and Democrats say they are frustrated at the Missouri House of Representatives slow start.
Missouri's House of Reprsentatives has been in session almost four weeks, but little has been accomplished.
[Missouri Digital News is produced by the State Government Reporting Program of the Missouri School of Journalism (home of the The Journalist's Creed) in collaboration with KSMU Radio and with support from the Missouri Press Association and the Missouri Broadcasters' Assocation.
www.mdn.org /2005/STORIES/HOUSE.HTM   (654 words)

  
 TIFABUSE.com ... MO House Conservation and Natural Resources Committee
Rep. Merrill Townley, a Republican, represents Maries and Osage counties and part of Gasconade County (District 112) in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Mike Dethrow, a Republican, represents Carter, Oregon and Ripley counties and parts of Butler and Wayne counties (District 153) in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Representative Brian Munzlinger, a Republican, represents Clark, Knox, Lewis, Schuyler, Scotland and part of Marion and Adair counties (District 1) in the Missouri House of Representatives.
www.tifabuse.com /mohousecommittee.html   (3183 words)

  
 Welcome to the Missouri House of Representatives Bill Tracking
The Missouri General Assembly meets in Jefferson City each year from January through mid-May to consider changes in Missouri laws.
The Commission was established by Senate Bill 539 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 during the 2005 legislative session to develop a framework by which Missouri’s Medicaid system may be redesigned and transformed.
The official list of Members of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 93rd General Assembly.
www.house.state.mo.us   (201 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The version adopted by the House committee also eliminates the ability of the Attorney General and the DHSS to enforce the collection of fines for violations, dramatically decreasing the accountability of nursing homes when they fail to provide quality care.
The duty of the Missouri House of Representatives is clear.
I encourage all Missouri citizens to contact their state representatives and tell them to reject the House substitute and pass the Senate version that will finally give our seniors and their families the comfort and peace of mind they deserve.
www.scanews.com /spot/2003/may/s663/english-news/mo-article.txt   (521 words)

  
 Article 4, Section 2, Clause 1: William Eustis, Admission of Missouri, House of Representatives
William Eustis, Admission of Missouri, House of Representatives
They were as directly represented as the whites, in the initiatory process; and, from their votes, in common with those of the whites, emanated the convention of Massachusetts, by whom the Federal Constitution was received and ratified.
In the district which I have the honor to represent, their number, compared with that of the white population, is not great;
press-pubs.uchicago.edu /founders/documents/a4_2_1s14.html   (1452 words)

  
 Missouri House of Representatives
Requires the Missouri state highway patrol to maintain a one page web page on the Internet which includes links to all sex offender registry web sites maintained by any county in the state.
Creates a two-dollar surcharge in criminal cases to be paid to the sheriff where the violation occurred to offset expenses for housing prisoners in the county jail.
Requires the Missouri State Highway Patrol to check the Missouri State Sex Offender Registry whenever a request for an open criminal records background check is made by an individual.
www.mopca.com /mpca/sitedocs/mpcalegrept-032604.html   (3311 words)

  
 Will Kraus for Missouri House of Representatives 48th District
Missouri would certainly benefit from his service here at home.
The 48th District is currently lacking real representation in the Missouri House.
I asked Will to consider running for State Representative because I know that he is a man of great character—the kind of guy I would want representing me in Jefferson City.
www.willkraus.com /endorsements.asp   (469 words)

  
 Missouri Is One Step Closer To Helmet Law Repeal
The Missouri House of Representatives gave final approval to S.B. 294 which would modify Missouri’s mandatory helmet law for all riders to an under twenty-one law.
Having passed both chambers of the Missouri General Assembly the next step is for the Senate to resolve the changes added in the House either by accepting the House amendments or by granting a conference committee.
The passage of this Senate bill in the House chamber has raised the bench mark of success for Freedom of Road Riders of Missouri.
www.wherethepoweris.com /news_article.asp?id=887   (438 words)

  
 Jim Kreider -- Serving the Citizens of the 142nd Legislative District
Rep. Kreider was elected Speaker of the Missouri House in 2001 and had previously served as Speaker Pro Tem since 1997.
He also was the Missouri House of Representatives Freshman Class President in 1992.
The credit is refundable and the maximum amount may be taken by taxpayers sixty-five years and older whose Missouri adjusted gross income is fifteen thousand dollars or less.
www.jkreider.com /bio.htm   (538 words)

  
 Biography of Missouri Representative Rod Jetton
Rod was born in Desoto, Missouri, to Bill and Judy Jetton.
In 2000, Rod ran for and won a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives where he is currently serving.
On January 5 th 2005, Rod was sworn in as the 70th Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.
www.rodjetton.org /bio.html   (813 words)

  
 m a j o r i t y w h i p : : ROY BLUNT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
On Thursday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m.
On Friday, there are no votes expected in the House.
However, should that adjournment date be further revised, the House will not be in session Thursday, November 24, 2005 through Friday, December 2, 2005.
majoritywhip.house.gov   (187 words)

  
 MNEA-Missouri National Education Association
Vickie Walker was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives for the first time in 2002 with the support of Missouri NEA.
She is a member and former board member of the Greater Kansas City Women’s Political Caucus; co-founder, trainer and board member of the Missouri Women’s Leadership Coalition; member of the Kansas City 150 Committee and the 3 Trails West Council.
Walker is a passionate advocate for public education and an effective and experienced member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
www.mnea.org /capitol/cand_bio/walker.htm   (229 words)

  
 House of Representatives Gets New Computers
Representatives came back from their spring break to find technology staring them in the face.
The house has stepped into the computer age and now every representative's desk on the floor has a laptop computer.
Representative Larry Thomason of Kennett coordinated the computerization of the house.
www.mdn.org /1997/STORIES/COMPUTER.HTM   (440 words)

  
 Soka Gakkai--NEWS: 2004 Newsletters-Missouri Governor and Missouri House of Representatives, USA, Commend SGI President ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Soka Gakkai--NEWS: 2004 Newsletters-Missouri Governor and Missouri House of Representatives, USA, Commend SGI President and Mrs.
Missouri Governor and Missouri House of Representatives, USA, Commend SGI President and Mrs.
Missouri Governor and Missouri House of Representatives, USA, recently commended SGI President Daisaku Ikeda and Mrs.
www.sokagakkai.info /html3/news3/newsletters3/04newsltrs3/n3_040313-e.html   (195 words)

  
 Missouri House of Representatives Approves New Arena Bonding Issue :: First Hurdle Cleared for Arena Initiative
Jefferson City, Mo. - The University of Missouri received good news late Wednesday afternoon when the State House of Representatives voted in approval of a bonding issue to help finance a new basketball arena.
"We're obviously very pleased that the House saw the merits to this comprehensive project," said MU Director of Athletics Mike Alden.
After moving through the House, the Senate will now deliberate on the measure.
mutigers.collegesports.com /genrel/042601aaa.html   (300 words)

  
 Doug Ervin - State Representative - District 35, Missouri
It is an honor to serve the 35th District and Clay County in the Missouri House of Representatives.
I believe that Missouri is making progress and moving forward in a positive direction, but there is still much work to do.
Missouri is a great place to call home.
www.dougervin.com   (104 words)

  
 Truman Library - Public Programs
The Missouri Conference on History is hosted by NARA-Central Plains Region and co-sponsored with the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City, State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri State Archives, Center for the Study of the Korean War and Federal Executive Board.
He served two terms in the Missouri House of Representatives and was appointed by the Governor to several state commissions.
Presentations on the renovation of the White House during the Truman administration and on the history of the President's residence.
www.trumanlibrary.org /program1.htm   (10150 words)

  
 LookSmart - Directory - Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
U.S. House of Representatives - Congressman Ike Skelton
U.S. House of Representatives - Congressman Kenny Hulshof
Representative William Lacy Clay's office provides constituents help with tours, flag requests, academy nominations, and internships.
search.looksmart.com /p/browse/us1/eus317916/us53358/us220517/us264627/us10096800   (334 words)

  
 United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 1st Session: Homepage
Current operating status of the United States House of Representatives.
Information on job application policies for the U.S. House of Representatives and openings within the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO).
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515 (202) 224-3121 TTY: (202) 225-1904
www.house.gov   (225 words)

  
 Missouri Alcohol Tax Bill Gets Bipartisan Support
Five Republicans and five Democrats in the Missouri House of Representatives came together to lend their support to a bill that would increase the state's tax on beer, wine, and liquor, the Kansas City Star reported April 7.
In 1970, the state's beer tax was increased from 3 cents to the current 6 cents a gallon.
The bill, which is opposed by the liquor industry, including St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos., is currently being heard by the House Tax Policy Committee.
www.jointogether.org /gv/news/RelatedArticle/0,1332,570352,00.html   (348 words)

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