In fight over birth control provision, Missouri Senate leaders say budget will advance
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Apr. 12 JEFFERSON CITY Leaders in the
Missouri Senate are expressing confidence they can overcome a roadblock threatening the passage of a balanced state budget.
In comments to reporters following last week s
Senate session, Majority Floor Leader
Caleb Rowden, R-
Columbia, said a normally routine hospital tax that pays a significant portion of the state s health care costs was likely to advance without an amendment barring the use of Medicaid dollars for contraception.
The amendment was attached to a bill known as the Federal Reimbursement Allowance by Republican
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