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Medicaid Expansion
11:58 pm
Tue April 16, 2013

Nixon Addresses 1,000+ Medicaid Expansion Supporters At Mo. Capitol

Credit Marshall Griffin/St. Louis Public Radio
iPad photo of people crammed inside the Mo. Capitol Rotunda for a rally on Apr. 16, 2013, in which Gov. Jay Nixon called for expanding Medicaid.
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A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 crammed into the Rotunda of the Missouri Capitol Tuesday to hear Governor Jay Nixon (D) call for expanding Medicaid to an additional 300,000 residents, nearly 260,000 of them by next year.


He told the crowd that the people he wants to add are those with low-paying jobs that don’t include health coverage.

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Dept. of Revenue/Conceal carry
6:39 am
Wed April 10, 2013

Mo. Senate Gives 1st-Round Approval To Bill Barring DOR From Scanning Source Documents

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The Missouri Senate has given first-round approval to legislation that would prohibit the Department of Revenue (DOR) from scanning and storing source documents for driver’s license, conceal-carry, and other applications.

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Medicaid Expansion
3:53 pm
Tue April 9, 2013

Nixon Takes Medicaid Expansion Campaign To Mo. Senate Republicans

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Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon (D) leaves a meeting of the Mo. Senate's Republican caucus on April 9th, 2013.
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Missouri Senate Republicans were visited Tuesday by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon.

As he did last week with House Republicans, Nixon pitched his proposal to expand Medicaid to an additional 260,000 Missourians next year.  He told reporters afterwards that it went well, and that much of the discussion focused on the alternate Medicaid package moving through the Missouri House.

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