Senate GOP Leader Steve Ehlmann, St. Charles, said he's concerned that placing the money in a fund could prevent it from being refunded to the people even under a vote.
Response to the governor's plan is mixed. St. Charles Republican Senator Steve Ehlmann says the state has already done a lot of work on the issue--in the Safe Schools Act, adopted five years ago. In Jefferson City, Lee McGuire, KMOX News.
"That is typical of the Carnahan administration," said Missouri Senate GOP Leader Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles. Ehlmann said the administration's actions were similar to its refusal to accept state legislative restrictions on family-planning funding.
Sen. Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles, said if the court decides the money doesn't go back to the tax payers then the state legislature will decide how to spend the money.
Senate GOP Leader Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles, who supports an override of the bill, said as far as a special session goes, Carnahan holds a full deck.
St. Louis County Republican senator Steve Ehlmann is speaking out against a legislative attempt to repeal term limits. Lee McGuire reports from Jefferson City.
St. Louis County Republican Steve Ehlmann will speak out against that bill at a press conference Wednesday morning. He says term limits are a good way to purge the legislature of career politicians.
At this point, Sen. Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles, rose to add another amendment - changing Jacob's "monogamous relationships" provision to "heterosexual monogamous relationships."
Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann said OA's numbers have been wrong by about 100 percent every year for the past few years, and that should justify the $380 million. He said his party was willing to listen to more reasonable offers from the Democrats.
Because the seat of Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann is up in 2000, Ehlmann's decision assures a change in the GOP leadership in the Senate in two years.
"A woman has a right to an abortion, but they certainly don't have the right to have the state pay for it," said Senate Republican leader Steve Ehlmann, St. Louis County.
"I don't think the constitution envisions the governor simply ignoring the wishes of the jury and all the appeals court judges that have looked at the case," said Senate GOP Leader Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles.
"The governor and the Democrats may cut taxes because they have to, not because they feel they should," said Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann, St. Charles.
Both Carnahan and Senate Republican leader Steve Ehlmann, St. Charles, agreed that Missouri's 15-year transportation plan has too little funding to be completed. Yet, neither Carnahan nor Republican leaders offered specific proposals on how to deal with the shortfall.
"I think it is time to go beyond the Hancock amendment refund and ask ourselves how big we want this government to be," said Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles County.
However, Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles, and other GOP lawmakers argue the tobacco settlement funds are covered by the state's Hancock spending lid that would require the money be reimbursed to the taxpayers.
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