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Stories by Dana Coleman include:

• 5/18/1996: House and Senate GOP leaders take different approaches to the end of the legislative session.
• 5/16/1996: Legislature enters its last day with tax cuts still unresolved.
• 5/15/1996: Senate rejects compromise on abortion sponsored by all the Senate's women members (newspaper story).
• 5/ 9/1996: Senate committee approves tax-cut plan.
• 5/ 9/1996: Sales tax cut replaced with income tax cut by Senate committee.
• 5/ 9/1996: Non-married, same-sex pigs authorized to carry concealed weapons under legislative staffer's suggested bill.
• 5/ 9/1996: House reverses itself and rejects stronger regulation of flood-plain development.
• 5/ 7/1996: As the Missouri River nears its banks, the House debated creating an office of flood plain management (newspaper story).
• 4/23/1996: Senate approves reinstating a type of local sales tax.
• 4/23/1996: Senate debate blocks vote on Blue Cross & Blue Shield's for-profit plans.
• 4/16/1996: Welfare advocates & GOP calling for legislative action on the stalled tax cut bill (newspaper story).
• 4/10/1996: Phone regulation bill comes before Senate.
• 4/ 3/1996: Missouri voters approve restriction on raising state taxes.
• 3/20/1996: Both proponents and opponents to a proposed telecommunications bill agree it will raise rates.
• 2/21/1996: Truckers would get fatter pay checks with faster speeds.
• 2/ 7/1996: Labor pushing for ban on hiring replacement workers.
• 2/ 7/1996: Senate protests state plan to restrict flood protection work.
• 1/17/1996: Experts agree with governor that the state's economy is booming.
• 1/ 9/1996: Democratic speaker candidate gives up nomination.
• 1/ 4/1996: Preview of the major issues that have emerged for the 1996 legislative session.