Sources inside the Department of Elementary and Secretary of Education and the Missouri State Senate have informed The Missouri Times that Senator Karla Eslinger will be foregoing re-election to head the department.
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After two days of grindingly slow legislative progress, the senate finally came to a complete stop today as Senator Bill Eigel finally took to the floor.
During the last two weeks of the session, The Missouri Times will bring you hourly updates of floor activity for each chamber. Below is all the activity in the Senate from Friday, May 12.
The recent announcement of the resignation of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner was certainly welcome news.
Senators Mike Moon, Jill Carter, Denny Hoskins, and Bill Eigel held a press conference last week on SB 49, known as the "Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act” or the SAFE Act.
Empower Missouri held a press conference earlier this week in order to bring attention to the Clean Slate Campaign, which they are leading throughout the state.
For the next two days, Missouri legislators from both chambers and both sides of the aisle will meet together at Lincoln University for a legislative retreat.
Hough moved SB 3 and SB 5 be combined into one bill and then moved to perfection. He also moved for the adoption of it.
"This is absolutely an attempt by the former conservative caucus to move away from divisiveness," Eigel said. "We want to mend some of those fences."
All 11 of Missouri's women in the upper chamber, both Republican and Democrat, have taken one message on tour this summer — "You Can, Too!"