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Saturday, March 20th, 2010By: Rep. Bob Nance
36th District
Budget News
Spring break is over at the Missouri Capitol and legislators were in Jefferson City Monday working on the State’s 2011 budget. Unlike the federal government, the state must have a balanced budget. That budget must be passed by May 7th and if [...]
Rep. Doug Ervin: Health Care Freedom Act Passes House
Friday, March 19th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”
- Thomas Jefferson, in a [...]
Rep. Sam Graves - Floor Speech on Healthcare
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Bob Nance Capitol Report for March 10th, 2010
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010By: Rep. Bob Nance
36th District
“The House will be on Spring Break until March 15th. When we return to session, we will be working on the State Budget for 2011. Due to revenue shortfalls, this will be an extreme challenge. Governor Nixon’s proposed budget includes $300 million in federal money that is not [...]
Rep Doug Ervin: Capitol Comment
Thursday, March 4th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
- Thomas Jefferson, fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
This week the Missouri House debated three separate proposed constitutional amendments.
HJR86 - Right [...]
Rep Doug Ervin: Building Castles in the Sky
Sunday, February 7th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor - May 8, 1816
Last week Governor Jay Nixon delivered the annual State of the State address to the Missouri General Assembly, the [...]
Bob Nance Capitol Report for February 4th, 2010
Sunday, February 7th, 2010By: Rep. Bob Nance
36th District
On the 100th Anniversary of the Boys Scouts of America
“I think the character that you learn in Scouting—working together, being honest with each other, being close knit … and depending on one another, on our camping trips and doing things—all these things build [...]
Rep. Doug Ervin: Session Begins
Thursday, January 7th, 2010By: Rep. Doug Ervin
35th District
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Republican citizens of Washington County, Maryland - March 31, 1809
This week the Second Regular Session of the 95th General Assembly was convened. This will [...]
January Clay County Republican Central Committee Meeting
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010This is a reminder that there will be a Clay County Republican Central Committee meeting on Tuesday, January 12th at the Courthouse in Liberty at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Commissioner’s Room on the top floor. Please enter through the side entrance (handicapped entrance) where the doors will be [...]
Bob Nance Capitol Report for December 22nd, 2009
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009By: Rep. Bob Nance
36th District
“In regard to the Senate vote on the amended healthcare bill on Sunday morning at 1 a.m. … I told my children when they were growing up, nothing good can happen if you are out after midnight.”
- Bob Nance
The year is winding down and the excitement of the next [...]