"Now if we want to stay all night that's fine, I can roll with that," said Rep. Connie Johnson, D-St. Louis City. "But if we're all concerned about the kids let's get about it, be about it."
But Rep. Connie Johnson, D-St. Louis City, said the lawmakers who supported tightening the venue guidelines were acting under false assumptions that St. Louis residents were unqualified to serve on juries.
The House has been in session three weeks, and work has just started on bills. Minority Whip and St. Louis Representative Connie Johnson says every Republican bill has been assigned, but it's a different story for the 58 bills filed by the Democrats.
Minority Whip Connie Johnson says of the 58 bills the minority caucus have proposed, only 2 bills have been assigned to committees. Johnson says that every Majority caucus bill has already been assigned to a committee.
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