UPDATE (6:00PM CDT): VICTORY!
No Voter ID (barring a special session in the summer)!
As some of you may have heard, we have a constitutional amendment that may come up in the Missouri Senate today. The amendment is titled HJR48 and you can read it here.
The bill is high on the calendar.
And you can listen along by going here and clicking on "Senate" under "Live Debate"
Under the fold, some helpful notes to help you make some sense of "Missouri Senate Radio"
UPDATE (5:25PM CDT): Onto a crime lab bill (SB733) and a roll call. 35 minutes left.
UPDATE (5:10PM CDT): Now we're on SB1068 (Establishes the Pharmacy Rebates Fund for use with the MO HealthNet program). 50 minutes left.
UPDATE (4:55PM CDT): Still nothing on HJR48. The raging anti-climax?
UPDATE (4:25PM CDT): Onto privileged motions, anybody reading?
UPDATE (4:20pm CDT): The consent calendar is finished, on to committee reports.
UPDATE (3:50pm CDT): More Consent bills, yay?
UPDATE (3:30pm CDT): We're now on the consent calendar, with 8 bills left. I'd imagine that we will be finished with this by 3:45 or so.
UPDATE (3:15pm CDT): The House Consent Calendar, including lots of stuff not including voter ID, is now being targeted. And we're moving to a bill about historical vehicles and alternative fuels.
UPDATE (3:05pm CDT): Now to SB818 (Modifies various provisions relating to stalking and harassment), which is inspired by the MySpace cyber-harassment story. And now Jason Crowell is talking about his grandmother, who loves Dr. Phil.
UPDATE (2:50pm CDT): And HCS for HB2041 (unemployment compensation) is up now, expanding unemployment, and prohibiting mandatory microchipping of employees. And now a cell phone is going off, someone get the baliff!
UPDATE (2:45pm CDT): And now they're voting on a CCR on 718. Now to the third read to pass the bill.
UPDATE (2:40pm CDT): Still on 718 (tax credits). I don't think Republicans can shut down debate on HJR48 without 23 votes and they have 20 right now. They got 23 to shut down debate in 2006 and lost 3 seats since then. The bill was pretty much party-line in the House too.
UPDATE (2:30pm CDT): Switching from the Campaign Finance Bill to a bill about tax credit programs.
Here's a roster of Senators for you all.
Frank Barnitz (16th district, Dent County), Matt Bartle (8th district), Joan Bray (24th district), Victor Callahan (11th district), Norma Champion (30th district), Dan Clemens (20th district, Webster County), Maida Coleman (5th district), Jason Crowell (27th district, Cape Girardeau), Rita Day (14th district), Tom Dempsey (23th district, St. Charles), Kevin Engler (3rd district, St. Francois), Michael Gibbons (15th district), Jack Goodman (29th district, Lawrence), Chuck Graham (19th district, Boone), Timothy P. Green (13th district), John Griesheimer (26th district, Franklin County), Jolie Justus (10th district), Harry Kennedy (1st district), Chris Koster (31st district, Cass), Brad Lager (12th district, Nodaway?), John Loudon (7th district), Rob Mayer (25th district, Stoddard), Ryan McKenna (22nd district, Jefferson?), Gary Nodler (32nd district, Jasper), Chuck Purgason (33rd district, Howell), Luann Ridgeway (17th district, Clay), Scott Rupp (2nd district), Delbert Scott (28th district, St. Clair), Charlie Shields (34th district, Buchanan), Wes Shoemyer (18th district, Monroe), Jeff Smith (4th district), Bill Stouffer (21st district, Saline), Carl Vogel (6th district, Cole), and Yvonne Wilson (9th district).
20 Republicans, 14 Democrats. The Democrats are Barnitz, Bray, Callahan, Coleman, Day, Graham, Green, Justus, Kennedy, Koster, McKenna, Shoemyer, Smith, and Wilson.
CURRENTLY (2:25pm CDT): The Senate is talking about SB1288, a lousy campaign finance/lobbyist "reform". And Shields just talked about lobbyists uniting with a lobbyist to lobby for less lobbyist disclosures. Seriously.
THE DEADLINE IS 6PM CDT.. so HJR 48 has to pass the Senate, or pass the House and Senate in identical forms, in the next 3 and a half hours.
So, here goes the blogging, feel free to comment or ask questions or listen.