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5/17/2001 - Transportation bill declared dead:
Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, lambasted Republicans for not the people vote on the Democratic transportation plan, which would go to a vote of the people because it proposes a tax hikes.
5/15/2001 - Transportation plan fails in Senate:
"You and the other elected members of this body are scared to let the people vote on this issue when people are dying across this state because of the accidents," said Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, to Sen. David Klarich, R-St. Louis County, who responded with yelling.
5/10/2001 - Kings of Their Domain:
Only two weeks after the election, Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, resigned from the Senate Transportation Committee. He said he was frustrated with the Republican leadership. Mathewson, a 20-year veteran of the Senate, said he could not keep the promises he had made to Missourians to fix the state's highways.
5/03/2001 - Governor attacks Republican transportation plan:
Kinder said Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, would shepherd it through the upper house.
5/03/2001 - MU Arena-One Step Closer to Reality:
Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, expressed concern with the time the General Assembly had to issue the bonds. The legislature issues fiscal notes three years in advance, so there is no mandate for future sessions of the legislature to issue the bonds.
3/13/2001 - Transportation funding big issue for lawmakers:
One transportation funding bill has already been declared dead by the bill's sponsor, Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia. It proposed tax and gasoline hikes and planned increasing revenue by $650 million.
3/01/2001 - Republican Senate begins cuts:
"When we start having all these rumors that are running rampant in the hall," said Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, "and this present administration is going to get rid of 25% of the staff, and there's going to be all these things happening around here, this family deteriorates."
2/13/2001 - Mathewson resigns transportation committee post:
JEFFERSON CITY - Citing his frustration with Republican leaders, state Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, resigned Tuesday from the Senate Transportation Committee.
2/13/2001 - A member of the Senate Transporation Committee is taking his exit:
In a surprise move Senator Jim Mathewson stepped down from the Transporation Committee. This came after his bill to enact a gas and sales tax increase for transportation was held up in committee.
2/12/2001 - Missouri Government News for Week of February 12, 2001:
JEFFERSON CITY - Citing his frustration with Republican leaders, state Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, resigned Tuesday from the Senate Transportation Committee.
2/06/2001 - .08 bill hits some opposition:
Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, said, however, that Missouri should not formulate its laws contingent on what the federal government wants.
1/8/2001 - Missouri Government News for Week of January 8, 2001:
The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Jim Mathewson, would boost the gas tax by two-cents per gallon and the state general sales tax by a penny per dollar.
1/30/2001 - Legislators question Holden's lack of a road plan:
Last week, the bill's sponsor, Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, said he doubted his bill would pass the committee, but House said he sees the bill a good first step.
1/25/2001 - Tax Hike Falters:
"The bill's on the shelf," declared the bill's sponsor, Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia.
1/23/2001 - Transportation Department backs tax hikes:
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Jim Mathewson, D-Sedalia, said earlier in the hearing that he was open to alternatives to finding additional road funds.
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