Much of the early portions of the session were consumed by working out these limits. The speed limit battle grew bogged down in the Senate, where Harold Caskey, D-Butler, managed to demand concessions through a short filibuster.
He was supported by Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, who argued the amendment would force the gamecock owners to kill off all of their birds, so as not to become felons.
Western Missouri Senator Harold Caskey told his colleagues that a pharmacology student at the University of Missouri at Kansas City failed a class because she couldn't understand the foreign teaching assistant's accent.
For months, consumer groups and phone companies have been arguing over the bill's provisions. Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, maintains that the bill unfairly benefits phone companies.
Wednesday's close battle featured numerous puzzling votes by senators such as Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, who voted against the bill despite his sponsorship of similar legislation last year.
"Turning good citizens into felons is wrong," said Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler. "Our good citizens, even innocent citizens, are being charged as felons."
After a five-hour filibuster, the Senate finally gave in to demands by Western Missouri Senator Harold Caskey that one road in his area of the state be exempt from the lower speeds.
But Senate passage is far from assured. The bill's chief critic, Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, has not ruled out a filibuster - simply saying he won't disclose his strategy.
A decision on Missouri's speed limits is entering its final stage after a committee of both House and Senate members proposed a substitute bill. The substitute is similar to the version passed by the House but faces opposition in the Senate. Butler Senator Harold Caskey says that speed limits should go back to pre-1974 levels. Caskey says that the Senate committee members did not represent the Senate's position.
Bill sponsor, Senator Harold Caskey, says the misdemeanor charge gives judges the power to issue arrest warrants for those who fail to appear in court.
Under the Senate compromise, the speed limit on U.S. 71 in the district of Sen. Harold Caskey would jump to 70 mph. Caskey had been blocking a Senate vote on the bill by a filibuster.
But a Senate vote was delayed after Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, would not rule out a filibuster to kill the proposal. Caskey has argued for retaining the old speed limits that had been in effect prior to the federal imposed limits.
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