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The Missouri House rejected efforts to draw a Congressional map that would have redrawn a Democratic seat in Kansas City in the GOP's favor.

The Missouri Senate is enveloped in a long-running factional war among GOP members that has turned it into a three-party body in all but name.

Supporters of the only attempt to add money to the state's record operating budget during Senate debate Tuesday also complained loudest that the state is spending too much.

The Senate version outspends the budget passed by the House weeks ago by more than $1 billion. Additionally, the Senate has yet to address how to allocate federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

The Senate version outspends the budget passed by the House weeks ago by more than $1 billion. Additionally, the Senate has yet to address how to allocate federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

Supporters of the only attempt to add money to the record state budget Tuesday also complained loudest that the state is spending too much.

A conservative in the Missouri Senate decried the "death of fiscal conservatism" while a Democrat hailed the "most progressive budget" ever. The spending plan for the year that begins July 1 has big differences from the House version, with major items for negotiations to come.

The $45 billion fiscal year 2023 budget, which also fully funds school transportation, will now head to a conference between the Senate and House.

A woman from Illinois was arrested after a one- vehicle crash Wednesday night in Cole County.

A constitutional amendment asking Missourians to let lawmakers decide year-to-year whether the state will offer Medicaid to working-age adults moved closer to passage Wednesday.