Republicans selected St. Louis County senator Mike Gibbons to be the new president pro tem...and now they're flexing their new control of state government to push an ambitious agenda.
"What I think has been the biggest problem with the governor's office is that they just have not been really engaged with the legislative process," said Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Gibbons, R-St. Louis County.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Gibbons, R-St. Louis County, said earlier in the week that the House's Medicaid bill, House Bill 1566, would probably not come up for a vote again in the Senate. However, Crowell expressed more optimism for its resurrection.
The bill will probably not come up for a vote because of strong Senate opposition to it, said Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Gibbons, R-St. Louis County.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gibbons sponsored the bill to annually recalculate reimbursements to nursing homes. The bill passed without opposition but only after Gibbons responded to questions. Columbia Sen. Ken Jacob says he is concerned about the effects this bill could have on in-home health care.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gibbons says the goal of the Joint Interim Committee on Underage Drinking is to evaluate current efforts to stop underage drinking and increase their effectiveness. The committee would include legislators and people from the community including students. The father of two teenagers, Gibbons says the problem needs to be addressed.
The bill sponsor, Senator Mike Gibbons says he knows of hundreds of parents who have given the state custody of their mentally ill child so that child can receive treatment.
The bill's sponsor is the Senate's majority leader, Sen. Mike Gibbons, R-Kirkwood. He has said the legislature needs more information before it can decide with tax credit programs should be eliminated and which should be retained.
Under the agreement, Senate Democratic Floor Leader Ken Jacob agreed to drop his filibuster. In return, the two top GOP leaders -- Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder and Republican Floor Leader Mike Gibbons -- agreed to await further action on the bill until the legislature passes another measure to let the University of Missouri borrow more money and lease some property.
A similar bill is being sponsored by St. Louis County senator Mike Gibbons and passed in the senate financial committee this week. From Jefferson City, I'm Monica Walter.
Sen. Mike Gibbons, R-St. Louis County, said that the bill is trying to right one of the "horrible wrongs." It is a situation, he said, where the parents of mentally-ill children who run out of money, resources and insurance are forced into a trap: either to abandon their child or to give up their child to state custody in order to provide adequate care.
Senator Mike Gibbons, a St. Louis County Republican, says many excellent schools in his district get classified as failing by the federal government because of Missouri's high standards.
St. Louis County Senator Mike Gibbons chairs the committee. He says the biggest problem is a lack of information about the effect of tax-credits, and only then can the state decide what works.
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