Rebecca Layne

Stories by Rebecca Layne in 2009 include:

5/13/2009: Radio Story - A moratorium on the death penalty got voted down in the House despite ardent protests from Democrat Representatives.
5/ 7/2009: Radio Story - The Senate accepted $148 million in federal stimulus funds for higher education despite opposing pleas from conservative Republicans.
5/ 7/2009: Radio Story - Conservative Senate Republicans argued to not adopt stabilization funds for higher education, but a majority vote in the Senate overruled their pleas.
4/30/2009: Radio Story - A woman outside Kansas City awaits with the rest of Missouri to hear if she has swine flu while a second probable case appears.
4/21/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri House rejected a last-chance proposal by the governor to expand Missouri healthcare for low-income children.
4/16/2009: Radio Story - Despite much opposition, a resolution abolishing the state income tax took one step closer to appearing on voters' ballots after it passed through the House to the Senate.
4/ 9/2009: Radio Story - Milk producers in Missouri would get tax credits in times of volatile milk pricing with a bill that passed from the House to the Senate.
4/ 9/2009: Radio Story - Welfare recipients would be up for future drug testing if a bill that passed through the House makes it through the Senate.
4/ 9/2009: Radio Story - Drug testing for welfare recipients who are suspected of doing illegal drugs was proposed by a bill that passed through the House to the Senate.
4/ 1/2009: Radio Story - The House rejected an amendment that would increase the age of college students whose parents are eligible for child support from 21 to age 22.
4/ 1/2009: Radio Story - An amendment proposing child support age changes got rejected in the House.
3/25/2009: Radio Story - Children of sperm or egg donors would be able to find out who their biological parents are if a bill heard in the Health Care Policy Committee makes it onto the legislative calendar.
3/17/2009: Radio Story - Transportation and education request funds from federal stimulus grant money.
3/11/2009: Radio Story - A House bill that would provide Missouri with more than $300 million in supplemental appropriations provoked little opposition in the Senate but still caused angry accusations on the Senate floor.
3/11/2009: Radio Story - A House bill on appropriations made it through the Senate with a majority vote, but that didn't prevent bickering between two Republican senators.
3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Manufacturers would be required to recycle their TVs with a bill that would take effect in 2012.
3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Boating and beer bonging would not go hand-in-hand with future bill.
3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Top Priorities for lawmakers from southwest Missouri
2/25/2009: Radio Story - A bill that would give tax breaks to smaller businesses passed from the House to the Senate with a majority vote.
1/29/2009: Radio Story - blah
1/15/2009: Radio Story - Dixon appointed Chair of House Committee on Transportation

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