Walsh's bill that would have created an "American Smokeout Day" in Missouri was defeated in the House after Farmington Republican Representative Kevin Engler pointed out who the bill's sponsor was.
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"My question we are going to have to decide this week is if we are going to honor those that are killing all bills, or proceed on," said Rep. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington after verifying Walsh was the bill's sponsor was.
"Their seeing us, the Show Me State. 'Come to the Show Me State so that we can go ahead and go to your doctors and pharmacies and get the drugs we need and take them home,'" said Kevin Engler, R-Farmington. "I don't think this is a good tourism mechanism from the state of Missouri. The fact that we are the number one doctor-shopping state in this country should be an embarrassment to this body."
"Their seeing us, the Show Me State. 'Come to the Show Me State so that we can go ahead and go to your doctors and pharmacies and get the drugs we need and take them home,'" said Kevin Engler, R-Farmington. "I don't think this is a good tourism mechanism from the state of Missouri. The fact that we are the number one doctor-shopping state in this country should be an embarrassment to this body."
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