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Today's Poll!Despite impasse, Senate hopes to finish by deadline
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Missouri lawmakers have one main constitutional duty when they gather each year: to pass a budget for the next business year that begins July 1, no later than 6 p.m. on the “first Friday following the first Monday in May.”
That means they have three days left to finish that duty this year. And this week, in a dozen hours of official, in-session, on-the-clock debate, the state Senate has approved the journals for last Thursday and this past Monday, said the Pledge of Allegiance twice — and debated, but not voted on, two bills.
“Even though we’re at a temporary spot where things are going unbelievably slow, I think progress will be made,” state Sen. Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, said Tuesday afternoon.
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him 1 year ago
I sure hope they get it done. How come they aren't held accountable and prosecuted since it is the law to pass a budget by Friday? They all should be charged for breaking the law if they don't. I know I would be charged if I broke the law.
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