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		<title>Beginnings of the End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last days of the 95th Missouri General Assembly signal the beginning of the 2011 legislative session, the 96th General Assembly. About one-third of the members of the legislature who return to the Capitol on September 15 will be spending the last days of their lives as Representatives or Senators.  Term limits have denied their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/09/beginnings-of-the-end/</link>
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		<title>You’re fired. Temporarily.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, after the Chairman of the Senate Fiscal Oversight Committee had abruptly adjourned his committee without any discussion about the so-called Ford bill, we asked him if he thought his action might cost him his committee chairmanship. “It really doesn’t matter at the moment,” he told us, “I’m going to do what I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/07/you%e2%80%99re-fired-temporarily/</link>
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		<title>Non-progress report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The non-progress report on the legislature’s special session we issued at mid-week needs a quick update because it appears progress has been made. To hear legislative leaders talk, you’d think two busy days will polish off all problems and lawmakers can go back to their summer pursuits. So here’s a progress report at the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/07/non-progress-report/</link>
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		<title>The clock is ticking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A second full week of the special legislative session is non-history. Thoughts a week ago that some kind of compromise could be reached by now that would clear the way for movement on the two pieces of legislation have proven decidedly optimistic. And so a special legislative session that some are calling “bizarre” will ooze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/07/the-clock-is-ticking/</link>
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		<title>Special Session Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, June 28th 10:00 a.m. &#8211; House technical session convenes 10:00 a.m. &#8211; House Economic Development Committee HHR7 01:00 p.m. &#8211; House Retirement Committee, HHR 03:00 p.m. &#8211; Senate Veterans Affairs, Pensions, Urban Affairs Committee, Senate Lounge 04:00 p.m. &#8211; House Rules Committee, HHR3 Tuesday, June 29th 10:00 a.m. &#8211; House convenes in special session;  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/06/special-session-schedule/</link>
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		<title>Special Session 101: Bob Priddy reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Special sessions of the legislature have somewhat different rules from regular sessions and this might be a good time to review some of the basics, now that our lawmakers are returning to the Capitol on Thursday to work on two issues. The Ford bill allows the (auto) company to keep some of the income withholding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/06/special-session-101-bob-priddy-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Nixon withholds $280 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not as bad as first feared. But the newest budget withholdings announced by Governor Nixon today are bad enough. He&#8217;s withholding $280 million from the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. The state budget office had recommended a few weeks ago that he withhold $350 million but Nixon says an uptick in state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/06/nixon-withholds-280-million/</link>
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		<title>Scholarships take big hit as Nixon slashes spending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Missouri’s budget woes will hit college students, school buses, the state work force, business tax credits and scores of other programs under $301.4 million in cuts announced today by Gov. Jay Nixon. Nixon said the budget passed by the Legislature had to be cut to avoid red ink in the fiscal year that begins July 1. “None of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/06/education-is-taking-a-big-hit-in-missouris-latest-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<title>The YouTube You Choose Campaign Toolkit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is predicated on the notion that what happens in the General Assembly has as much to do with politics as legislation. Via Mashable: &#8220;Today Google is releasing new tools for politicians using YouTube and Google. The YouTube You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit and the Google Campaign Toolkit are both designed to help political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/06/the-youtube-you-choose-campaign-toolkit/</link>
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		<title>Capitol Hill’s iPad caucus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice to know our own Sen. Claire McCaskill is one of the cool kids and a member of &#8220;Capitol Hill&#8217;s iPad Caucus.&#8221; This story by Politico&#8217;s Erika Lovley (real name?) makes it sound like the iPad is gonna be a Big Deal in DC like everywhere else. And, according to some tech experts and lawmakers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legislature.com/2010/05/capitol-hill%e2%80%99s-ipad-caucus/</link>
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