State senators Ed Quick and Joe Maxwell have filed a measure that will give Missouri voters the chance to say how they want settlement funds spent. Maxwell says citizen opinion is very important ...
Senate President Pro-Tem, Ed Quick, D-Liberty, sponsored the legislation which sports the approving signatures of many Democratic leaders in the Senate.
Wiggins said Senate President Pro Tem Ed Quick, D-Liberty, charged the committee to look carefully at any possibility of reducing taxes, but keeping in mind any effects lowering taxes would have on education, health care and law enforcement funding.
"There are probably people that don't want to see a tax cut," said Senate President Pro Tem Ed Quick, D-Liberty. "I'm always an optimist. We'll get it done by Friday."
Senate President Pro Tem Ed Quick, D-Liberty, conceded Monday that lawmakers may reach no consensus at all - forcing the state to issue income tax refunds required by the Hancock Amendment.
A one-third majority of senators on both isles signed a petition to move the abortion debate to the senate floor. The democrat's top leader, Senator Ed Quick, says the four democrats that signed the petition were motivated by upcoming elections. But, Democrat Ted House of St. Charles, who is expected to present the petition, says not so.
Senate President Pro Tem Ed Quick wants to put the tobacco money in a trust fund while the state figures out whether it should be returned to taxpayers under the Handcock amendment.
Senate President Pro-Tem Ed Quick, D-Kansas City, said the plan would not reappear in the Senate chamber until the Republicans "give us an indication that we'll be able to pass a feasible tax cut."
Liberty Democratic Senator Ed Quick's bill is on its way to the Senate floor. It requires tobacco companies, not part of last fall's tobacco settlement, to pay about one penny for every cigarette they sell in Missouri. The money would go into an escrow fund for the next 25 years.
Sen. Ed Quick, D-Liberty, introduced a proposal in the Senate Retirement committee that would establish a fund to hold the money while the legislature decides what to do with it.
"I think that you always have to approach tax cuts with looking at the future," said Senate President Pro Tem Ed Quick. "Our economy was good this year. It could be down the tubes next year."
The magnitude of the Republican package raised words of caution from several Democrats. "Proposals and realities are a long way apart," said Sen. Ed Quick, D-Liberty and the Senate's new president pro tem.
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