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The Missouri Times
JANUARY 9, 2022
MAPS & MONEY
A look at the House floor leader’s ‘basic goals’ for session Kaitlyn Schallhorn
As the legislative session gets underway, the House will keep a keen focus on the budget and congressional redistricting, Majority Floor Leader Dean Plocher said. Of course, there will be other issues that arise that will attract attention: A bevy of election integrity and security bills have been filed as well as legislation aimed at education, an issue that has risen in popularity among Republicans across the nation and one Plocher said will certainly be addressed. And there are the usual suspects: GOP-backed bills further restricting access to abortion services and
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increasing the ability to own and carry firearms colliding with the Democrats’ cascade of legislation that would do the exact opposite — including tweaking last year’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA). But the priorities, according to the floor leader, will be on money and maps. “Our basic goal must be what we are constitutionally obligated to do — and that is pass a budget and somehow pass the congressional redistricting. Our biggest approach to getting things done is what we are mandated to do by the constitution,” Plocher said in an interview. Continued on Page 9.