The commission's debates have not been limited to adult behavior, however. Commission member Sen. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis, recommended yesterday that schools be required to form an "action plan" to address nutrition, physical education and obesity as a condition of receiving state funding.
Saint Louis Senator Pat Dougherty says he found out there are serious conflicts in child abuse laws passed last spring. He says the three laws are not clear on when and where abused minors and their abusers may live or go to school. Dougherty says the issue must be addressed now.
But negotiators accepted a proposal offered by Sen. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis City, during Senate budget discussions to put the premiums on a sliding scale. The department estimated no children would pulled from coverage under the plan.
Sen. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis City, led a successful Senate filibuster of an attempt to allow motorcyclists to decide if they wished to wear a helmet. The move was temporarily interrupted by Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, who joined the Democrats in their opposition.
Democratic Saint Louis Senator Pat Dougherty said Missouri can not afford to make taxpayers pick up medical bills for helmetless riders lacking health insurance.
Senator Pat Dougherty a Democrat from St. Louis said this bill is better than not have the program at all. First steps was almost eliminated under Gov. Blunt's Medicaid cuts.
One floor above Blunt's office, Saint Louis Senator Democrat Pat Dougherty said a Republican amendment to the proposed cuts to Medicaid is an attack on children.
Sen. Pat Dougherty (D-St. Louis City) was quick to bring up Blunt's comment during his campaign last year that any cuts to eligibility would be "inappropriate" until waste, fraud and abuse had been rooted out of the system.
In the early stages of what St. Louis City Senator Pat Dougherty says will be an all night filibuster, Senators argued over the effects of the Medicaid cuts.
"It's going to take human beings to do that," countered Sen. Pat Dougherty (D-St. Louis), a vocal opponent who said current attempts at ferreting our fraud were going understaffed. "I don't think we have the funds."
Sen. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis City introduced a bill to protect the collection and use of personal information by companies like ChoicePoint. If fraud is detected, the companies would be forced to inform affected Missouri consumers. Sen.Get the radio stories.
But Democrat Senator Pat Dougherty says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch does a good job on the issues that are hard to deal with like race relations and education. From the state Capitol, I'm Jade Mingus.
But Democrat Senator Pat Dougherty says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch does a good job on the issues that are hard to deal with like race relations and education. From the state Capitol, I'm Jade Mingus.
The Republican's want to pass a bill that would create a bridge over the Mississippi honoring late President Ronald Reagan. Democrats such as Sen. Pat Dougherty of St. Louis City oppose the building of such a bridge.
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