State Senate endorses bill to curb governor's power

Friday, January 31, 2014

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican state senators took steps Thursday to try to curb the governor's power to fill vacancies in state agencies and force him to call special elections for empty seats the Legislature, in what was the Missouri Senate's first action of the year.

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