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The map retains Missouris partisan alignment and makes alterations to the southwest 7th district, which is up for grabs this year.

The Missouri Senate refused to confirm Donald Kauerauf as Gov. Mike Parson's health director on Tuesday, leaving Kauerauf banned from the position for life.

While senators were initially scheduled to debate the map this week, ongoing negotiations and acrimony delayed the process.

Senators listened to hours of testimony, mostly from Republicans rallying for a 7-1, GOP-majority redistricting map, rather than the proposed 6-2.

Senators listened to hours of testimony, mostly from Republicans rallying for a 7-1 Republican majority redistricting map, rather than the proposed 6-2.

Senators listened to hours of testimony, mostly from Republicans rallying for a 7-1, GOP-majority redistricting map, rather than the proposed 6-2.

The Missouri House overwhelmingly rejected efforts Tuesday to draw a congressional map that would have reconfigured a Democratic seat in Kansas City in the GOP's favor, and instead gave initial approval to a map that maintains the current party divisions.

A redrawn congressional map cleared the Missouri House on Wednesday, but without an emergency clause needed for it to go into effect before the Aug. 2 primary.

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Missouri lawmakers will return to the state Capitol at noon today faced with a lengthy to-do list and still simmering dysfunction.