JEFFERSON CITY - Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, criticized the hiring and firing decisions of Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder Tuesday and called for the Republican to either step down or change his tactics.
Columbia Senator Ken Jacob and fellow Democrats are putting up a fight in the Senate to change the current Congressional redistricting plan and make Columbia the power house of the 9th district.
Columbia Senator Ken Jacob and fellow Democrats are putting up a fight in the Senate to change the current Congressional redistricting plan and make Columbia the power house of the 9th district.
"This resolution secures the anonymous donation for the arena," said Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia. "We have made a commitment and I think that this is going to get done."
When Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, distributed a study detailing the cost to the public of gun violence, Kinder promptly threw the study in a nearby trash can.
JEFFERSON CITY - Senate Democrats -- including Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia -- launched a filibuster Wednesday to block GOP efforts to strip Democratic St. Louis City from the congressional district of U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt.
"I think contraceptives are an integral part of women's health," said Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, who offered an amendment that would allow for insurance companies that covered the cost of prescription drugs to also to cover the cost of contraceptives.
The Missouri Senate bill creates 4 days, before the start of the school year, where school clothing and supplies would be tax free. Senator Ken Jacob, co-sponsor of the bill, says the bill is consumer friendly.
"What kind of people are these?" Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, emphatically asked reporters. "This is efficiency -- taking a reader away from a blind man?"
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, told the Senate Crime Committee that he's still opposed to allowing people to carry concealed weapons. But, Jacob said, the law is likely to pass and he wants to make sure certain precautions are included in the legislation.
JEFFERSON CITY - A campaign to allow Missourians to carry concealed weapons found a surprise supporter in Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, who is sponsoring a bill to put the issue up for a voter referendum.
"Tobacco was unpopular. Guns are unpopular. Who's next?" asked Kinder of Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, one of only a handful of Senate opponents to Kinder's bill.
JEFFERSON CITY - A senator's impassioned plea to devote more resources to Missouri's urban schools drew sharp criticism Thursday from Boone County Sen. Ken Jacob.
The competing plans come from Sen. John Schneider, D-St. Louis County, who proposed a five-cents-per-gallon increase, Sen. Morris Westfall, R-Halfway, who proposed a two-cents-per-gallon increase, and Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, who proposed a three-cents-per-gallon diesel fuel tax increase. All bills but Westfall's propose vehicle registration fee increases.
The committee also heard testimony for legislation introduced by Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, that would ban new billboards and free the state from requirements that it remove obstacles that block existing signs.
When the resolution came to the Senate with just hours before the deadline, Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, made a substitute motion to reject the House version of the resolution and request a conference committee to work out differences between the two chambers.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, cautioned that competing budget priorities and uncertainties surrounding the tobacco settlement may hurt the grant program's chances.
Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, for example, has emerged as a vociferous opponent of the proposal, arguing that the salary increases would be best addressed during the appropriations process.
But after hours of filibustering by senators Tuesday, including Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, Singleton withdrew the resolution. If the Senate does not reject the commission's recommendations by Feb. 1, the pay raise will automatically be approved.
JEFFERSON CITY - A senator's impassioned plea to devote more resources to Missouri's urban schools drew sharp criticism Thursday from Boone County Sen. Ken Jacob.
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