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House Business Opens with Symbolic Health Care Effort
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The House Rules Committee Monday voted 7-3 to pass a non-binding resolution urging Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster to join the 20 other states in suing the federal government over the national health care plan. While more than 70 percent of votes cast favored an August ballot measure that would ban [...]
Click here to listen to an audio story. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The historic 2011 session of the state legislature got a little more historic Thursday when presumptive Speaker of the House Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, announced that three of the 42 House committees will be chaired by minority party Democrats. Republicans will make up 106 [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Incoming Republican congressmen from Missouri were among those voting in favor of a ban on all earmarks in the upcoming session of Congress. Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long tweeted enthusiastically after the House Republican caucus by on Thursday passed a resolution in favor of a moratorium on earmarks for the [...]
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Audio Story on Budget JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With a giant hole in the upcoming state budget looming, a Missouri House committee will spend the next six weeks tearing the current budget apart trying to find efficiencies it can apply to the next budget. Starting Monday, eight Republicans and six Democrats who make up the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Basking in the afterglow of an election that delivered an unprecedented GOP majority to the Missouri House, Republican lawmakers on Wednesday outlined a course and crew for the 2011 legislative session. “Last night was an historic night,” said newly appointed House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville. “A pickup of 17 seats, according [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A U.S. congressional candidate and five state representative hopefuls think the time is right for an independent voice in politics. The six candidates will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot certified by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan Tuesday. Please visit our main news site www.monewshorizon.org to read the complete article or [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — From the New York Times, to CNN, to Reuters, Proposition C’s passage was big news. GOP National Chairman Michael Steele weighed in, as did the Obama administration. Seventy-one percent of Missourians who went to the polls in the state’s primary election Tuesday voted in favor of the proposal that would put [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –- Tea party influence may be difficult to gauge among individual races, but political experts predict the movement will likely stoke turnout for Tuesday’s referendum vote on health care reform. Most pundits predict tea party activists will fuel an easy passage of Proposition C, a ballot measure aimed at stopping the federal [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The decorated war veteran wakes up in the back of his van and pushes down the road. Ahead, another stretch of highway or rural road. Another town. Another 200 hands to shake. Meetings with any kind of organized group he can find, constantly pushing his [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — About one million voters are forecast to cast ballots in Tuesday night’s statewide primaries, according to data complied by the secretary of state. A number of spirited local races appear to be peaking voters’ interest, but historical data suggest the ballot issue gauging voter support of the nationwide health care plan [...]
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