Single mothers were a "significant population taken off the Medicaid rolls," said Medicaid reform Commission chairman Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph.
Republican Senate Floor Leader Charlie Shields, of Buchanan, and member of the Medicaid Reform Commission, said the state's Medicaid system is fundamentally broken.
But the Republican senate floor leader Charlie Shields says the state's Medicaid program is broken and G-R-O's ballot initiative won't fix the problem.
Republican Senator and Commission chairperson Charlie Shields says the move is neccessary because of time constraints -- he says they have just three months to finish their reccomendation
While permitting the measure's sponsor to troll for support to end a filibuster and force the issue to a vote, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, kept the Senate away from abortion on the session's final day.
The measure's sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, said the passage was a major step forward because student need rather than the local property tax rate would now dictate how much money came to a school district.
Blunt and Rep. Brian Baker, R-Belton, who was put in charge of the bill in the House, said natural economic growth would generate the money. But the bill's sponsor, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has said he favored the combination of economic growth with a repeal of loss limits and an increase to the gross receipts taxes gambling boats pay.
Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has said he would support eliminating casino loss limits and increasing gross receipts taxes, which when combined with additional tax revenues from economic growth would fund the formula.
Although not directly related to Schiavo's case, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has filed a bill that he said would establish a "pecking order" for who should make health-care decisions for incapacitated patients without durable power of attorney. The bill would provide that no health care decisions made by an attorney or surrogate if that decision is contrary to the provider's religious beliefs or institutional religious-based policy.
The measure's sponsor Senate Floor Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, downplayed the importance of the committee vote. Shields, who has been working on the new formula for two years, said he believed the proposal could be saved.
Floor Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, providing the paperwork for Barnitz to opt out of the state health care plan, encouraged the rookie senator to "lead by example" and take himself off the plan whether the Senate passes the amendment or not.
With the cost of the proposed formula exceeding $650 million, Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, who led the effort to make the formula's first wholesale changes since 1993, said a companion bill to help fund the new formula would be debated on the floor before the end of the session.
Republican Senator Charlie Shields of St. Joseph says he understands the political statement Democrats are trying to make, but thinks they are missing the point.
"I got elected to this body, and I got to be even more compassionate because not only did I get to spend my own money, but I got to spend others' money as well," Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, said.
The committee's chairman, Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, praised the committee for its work but predicted the proposal is only the starting point for later debate in the Senate and House.
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, had set a controversial four-week deadline for the joint Senate-House committee assigned to the task, but a vote is not expected until the formula can be compiled into bill form. This will not happen until next week.
JEFFERSON CITY - In Tuesday's initial meeting of the Senate-House joint committee charged with providing the state with a recommendation on how to the fix the formula for distributing state aid to public education, Chairman Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, advocated a formula that leans toward student needs rather than the willingness of local residents to pass local tax increases.
Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, who heads the joint committee, and Senate Education Committee Chairman Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, cosponsored the measure. Nodler said he believed the courts should not have accepted the suit.
But the chairman of the joint committee -- Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph -- said the new House committee was necessary because joint committees cannot send bills to the floor and said the joint committee should complete its work by the March 1.
The chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee which recommended the change - Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph -- called the $50 cap an "arcane" rule.
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