Heading up the committee alongside Guernsey will be State Representative Stanley Cox, who previously chaired the committee that investigated last year's Department of Revenue scandal.
Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, vice chair of the newly-formed Bipartisan Investigatory Committee on State Department Workplace Abuse, said the administration is wasting tax payer dollars by not operating state departments efficiently. The committee members have not yet been announced, and Guernsey said he is not sure when the first committee hearing will be.
"Even without the technology of drones there’s satellite technology…they could take a satellite photo of newspaper print on the ground in Moscow," said Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia. "If you think you have some expectation of privacy from the sky…you’re a little behind technology, right?"
Wrap: The head of the House Judiciary Committee Stanley Cox says he wants Governor Jay Nixon and legislative leaders to be open about where they are spending their money.
Wrap: Republican Representative Stanley Cox introduced the bill, and spent over an hour in an Elections Committee answering questions from House Democrats, several of whom say the push for photo-ID has been politically motivated.
Thomas Jefferson believed that, "the ultimate authority, because states created federal government, rested with the states," said Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia. Cox, a lawyer and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said this issue has never been resolved, but had Jefferson's argument won out, he would have been in the right.
Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, sponsored the proposed Constitutional amendment and said it does not require anything else of citizens that they are not already required to prove in many areas of their lives.
Stanley Cox, the head of the House Judiciary Committee, said he wants Gov. Jay Nixon and legislative leaders to be open about where they are spending their money.
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