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May 1996 Audio Cuts

• 5/16/1996: 148K WAV file - Tate says if we see a clash here on the regulation of the swine industry and sensitive water sheds, it will pale in comparison as to what is coming down the pike as far as river contamination from fertilizers and chemicals in the very near future.
  Story: Both the Senate and the House passed a bill regulating large hog farm operations.
• 5/16/1996: 139K WAV file - Murphy says do we want the elderly living in urine soaked garments with feces under their fingernails and with dirty food? If we do, tell this woman to take that back to the Senate.
  Story: The relatives of patients with Alzheimers disease would get more information concerning their loved ones.
• 5/16/1996: 86K WAV file - Daniel says they are not relevant culturally, them emphasize behavior, which is training, not education. And we want a quick fix because an election is coming up
  Story: The House passed the Safe Schools Bill to crack down on violent and disruptive students.
• 5/15/1996: 175K WAV file - Staples asks what's wrong with a rooster putting a spur into the head of another rooster.
  Story: Senators defeat amendment to make raising gamecocks illegal
• 5/15/1996: 216K WAV file - Staples asks since people kill, how can you tell if a chick will grow up to be a killer rooster.
  Story: Senate Devotes Precious Time to Cockfighting
• 5/15/1996: 287K WAV file - Shields notes that the bad old days when mental patients suffered horrible conditions are not that long ago. He says the bill will continue to advance the care of the mentally ill.
  Story: The House approves changes in involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.
• 5/14/1996: 209K WAV file - Representative Hall says homosexuality is immoral and will lead to the downfall of our society.
  Story: The House Judiciary Committee considers a bill that bans same sex marriages in Missouri.
• 5/14/1996: 111K WAV file - Maxwell says the current system is saving Missouri a lot of money and is working out for a lot of Missourians.
  Story: A welfare bill to terminate welfare is declared officially dead.
• 5/14/1996: 156K WAV file - Harlan says there are levels of punishment for violating N-C-double-A standards including missing bowl games, no more television broadcasts, or even losing an athletic program.
  Story: The Missouri Legislature says yes to tighter control of student athletes and their agents on the M.U. campus.
• 5/14/1996: 201K WAV file - Harlan says the most important provision in the bill is that contracts must now include a warning that eligibility could be lost by signing with a pro team. He adds that agents and athletes can be penalized for violating rules.
  Story: The legislature sends the governor a bill for tighter regulations on athletic agents and their student clients.
• 5/ 8/1996: 136K WAV file - Kinder uses religious arguments in support of same-sex marriage ban.
  Story: Senators relied on Judeo-Christian arguments to deny homosexuals the right to marry.
• 5/ 8/1996: 211K WAV file - Kinder says society is facing the dissolution of the traditional marriage contract.
  Story: Senators voted to to prohibit same-sex marriages.
• 5/ 7/1996: 160K WAV file - Norwald says that this peice of legislation is just another attempt by big brother government to step into the private sector and to our private lives and impose another level of beauracracy.
  Story: The House votes to toughen state control over development of flood plains.
• 5/ 1/1996: 184K WAV file - Kelly says her delivery-coverage bill will let the new mom and physician decide how long she should stay in the hospital.
  Story: Governor gets bill to assure hospital stay coverage for women after they deliver.
• 5/ 1/1996: 254K WAV file - Carnahan says women facing crisis pregnancy don't need to be harassed by the government.
  Story: The governor says he is opposed to an attempt to add caregivers to Tel-Link.
• 5/ 1/1996: 279K WAV file - Carnahan says objects to suggestions he would sign a compromise abortion bill.
  Story: The governor says he will veto legislation to restrict abortion.