Even as the top leaders of the state Legislature consider loosening their iron grip on the Capitol, and letting rank-and-file lawmakers play a greater role in decision-making, their counterparts at ...

WHOEVER GETS THE MOST VOTES WINS, RIGHT? WELL, MAJORITY RULE COULD BE CHANGING IN MISSOURI. BATTLING BACK A FILIBUSTER, THE REPUBLICAN LED STATE SENATE PASSED A MEASURE LATE LAST MONTH DESIGNED TO ...

Majority rules! We Missourians know what this means. We know that 50% +1 of the votes cast represents a majority of the votes cast and that “majority rules.” Our legislators in Jefferson City also ...

The House Republican Conference advanced its first round of rule changes Wednesday for when it retakes the House in January. The GOP is saving more controversial rule change proposals for after ...

The Republican Party is set to experience a big win in the House of Representatives come election night, gaining a double-digit edge in the lower chamber of Congress. The majority by the GOP could be ...

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Some Democrats eye rule change as they prepare for first day of new Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2010 — -- Their majority dwindling, some Senate Democrats are planning a showdown on the first ...

This is the third of a six-part series on the constitutionality of the state’s Budget Guardrails. The first bedrock rule of legislative procedure violated by the statutory Budget Guardrails is the ...

The Lackawanna County Home Rule Charter’s process for filling former Commissioner Matt McGloin’s vacant seat supersedes a state rule of judicial administration that would have removed the county ...