JEFFERSON CITY -Speaker of the House Catherine Hanaway, R- St. Louis County, announced Tuesday her candidacy in the race for secretary of state in the 2004 elections.
JEFFERSON CITY - Speaker of the House, Catherine Hanaway,R- St. Louis County, will announce on Tuesday her candidacy in the race for Secretary of State in the 2004 election, according to Paul Sloca, communications director for Missouri's Republican party.
Contents: Holden says that either Catherine Hanaway has forgotten or she has chosen to ignore that the money has already been used by the General Assembly.
"Now every Missourian has the opportunity to tell the Governor his or her tax money should be released to our public schools," House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said in a statement.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said that state revenues for the first four months of this fiscal year have been collected beyond expectations.
"Their very survival is at stake," proclaimed House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, who said doctors are abandoning Missouri for states with cheaper medical malpractice insurance.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway (R-Warson Woods) said she hoped the governor would ask school superintendents what programs they would restore if witheld funds were reinstated.
Hundreds of people packed the House galleries to listen to each side present their case. Democratic Governor Bob Holden defended his plan to decrease budget cuts by taxing businesses, cigarettes, and gambling. Senate President Pro Temp Peter Kinder and House Speaker Catherine Hanaway reiterated their belief that higher taxes will hurt the state during this time of economic hardship.
But House speaker Catherine Hanaway says it would still be the largest increase in the state's history and republicans haven't been persuaded to support it.
"There is no reasonable basis for a special session at this point," said House Speaker Catherine Hanaway. "A special session costs $100,000 a week - that's at least three teachers' salaries a week to get to the same place we are right now."
Back in January, House Speaker Catherine Hanaway predicted one of the biggest challenges she would face in her post would be to keep the two factions of her party together.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, stressed that revenue enhancement have to come first. Republican leaders have said the legislature needs to pass $150 million in revenue enhancements to balance the budget, which it sent to the governor late last week.
The bill's sponsor, House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, credited House members with improving the bill through the nearly 20 amendments proposed during the debate.
Jacob said he doesn't think there is enough time left for both the House and Senate to pass the $200 million revenue increases, especially since House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said her members will not accept tax increases.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, sponsored the bill that would, among other changes, set up a pilot program for privatizing child services provided by the state's Family Services Division.
Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, sponsored the bill that would, among other changes, set up a pilot program for privatizing child services provided by the Division of Family Services.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, sponsored the bill and agreed with the amendment. She said that without the provision, workers couldn't be charged even if their negligence led to the death of a child.
A number of recommendations, such as higher salaries and lower case loads for workers, would cost money. House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County and a member of the commission, said she knows funding is tight with this year's budget.
If the department director, the administrative officer and the employee believed to have started the memo do not provide voluntary testimony, Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said the committee would issue subpoenas to force it.
Governor Holden still has not addressed House Speaker Catherine Hanaway's demand that he directly instruct state employees to cooperate with legislators on budget cuts. Elizabeth Gill has the story in Jefferson City:
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway has said her biggest challenge would be keeping the fiscal and social conservatives on the same agenda.
A number of bills, including one sponsored by House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, would make DFS workers civilly and criminally liable in cases where children in the system are harmed.
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri House Speaker Catherine Hanaway has said her biggest challenge would be keeping the fiscal and social conservatives on the same agenda.
Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, said in her opening address to the House that creating jobs would be the goal of her party's leadership this session. She said nearly 100,000 jobs have left the state in the past years.
But Republicans said they had no choice but to proceed with this lump sum approach, because department heads have been unwilling to work with the House and Senate leadership trying to prioritize state programs. Instead, House Speaker Catherine Hanaway said department heads have only been willing to discuss the governor's budget plan, which relies on almost $700 million in new taxes.
This is a result of House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and House Budget Committee Chairman Carl Bearden deciding not to continue with the process of cutting Missouri's budget program by program.
"We want the committee to pursue information about the source of the memo and the scope of its distribution on an informal level," said House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, asked for the directive last week after a Department of Natural Resources memo surfaced that warned state employees they could be fired for talking with lawmakers about budget cut ideas.
JEFFERSON CITY - House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder announced their compromise plan to fix the shortfall in the current year's budget. The proposal calls on borrowing $100 million from tobacco settlement funds along with $250 million in postponed spending and other accounting changes. Hanaway calls the plan "the least worst of several bad alternatives."
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's House Speaker said she is considering subpoening administration officials to investigate possible threats to fire state department employees for discussing budget ideas with legislators.House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R- St. Louis County, along with other Republican House leaders charged Thursday that gag orders have been issued to keep state workers from offering ways to cut the state's budget.
JEFFERSON CITY - House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R- St. Louis County, said Thursday she is considering subpoening state officials to investigate who threatened state department employees with their jobs if they discussed budget ideas with legislators.
He's also a details man who's comfortable discussing even small provisions of the state's budget that consumes hundreds of pages. When House Speaker Catherine Hanaway meets the press to discuss the budget, Bearden sits next to her to field technical questions.
House speaker Catherine Hanaway says if all the tobacco money is used this year, there would be nothing to fill next year's budget shortfall. From the state capital, I'm Elizabeth Gill.
Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-St. Louis County, and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, announced a plan that includes $100 million in tobacco money plus $112 million in cuts to balance this year's budget.
JEFFERSON CITY - History was made on the opening day of Missouri's 2003 legislative session when St. Louis County Republican Catherine Hanaway was elected as the first woman speaker of Missouri's House in the state's history.
House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, 39, Speaker Pro Tem Rod Jetton, 35, and Majority Floor Leader Jason Crowell, 30, are the three top and the three youngest members of the leadership. Of the seven top leaders in the House and Senate, all are less than 55 years old.
JEFFERSON CITY - History was made on the opening day of Missouri's 2003 legislative session when St. Louis County Republican Catherine Hanaway was elected as the first woman speaker of Missouri's House in the state's history.
Holden has said he would settle for a tax increase that is smaller than the one he initially proposed. But House speaker Catherine Hanaway says it would still be the largest in the state's history.