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Missouri House Budget Chair: bipartisan oversight is needed on federal rescue plan dollars (AUDIO)
Legislation aimed at preventing waste or fraud of federal stimulus dollars will be heard Monday afternoon by the Missouri House Budget Committee in Jefferson City.
Missouri House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith (R-Carthage) speaks on the House floor on March 30, 2021, as Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann (R-O’Fallon) and Floor Leader Dean Plocher (R-St. Louis County) visit (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)
The bill from Budget Chairman Cody Smith (R-Carthage) establishes the Committee on Local Recovery Accountability and Transparency to conduct oversight of stimulus money.
House Republican leadership could not be immediately reached for comment on the governor’s letter.
The night before his scheduled address, Parson notes in his letter, a House committee met in a crowded hearing room packed with witnesses and legislators.
“I could not understand why House leadership would condone such an unsafe hearing while preventing the State of the State from moving forward,” Parson wrote, “as we had taken every precautionary measure to limit unnecessary attendance, ensure social distancing and provide overflow viewing areas.”
Parson says he was informed Wednesday morning that he could deliver his speech to an empty House chamber, with his address live streamed for remote viewing.
By Jason Hancock Missouri Independent
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says House Republican leaders’ decision against allowing a joint legislative session to convene last week amid a statehouse COVID-19 outbreak was a “purposeful and disgusting scheme to embarrass me,” he said in a three-page letter to lawmakers dated Jan. 29.
Parson was scheduled to deliver his annual State of the State address last Wednesday in the House chambers, with the Senate, statewide officials, his cabinet and other guests in attendance.
He was unable to do so, however, after numerous lawmakers and staff tested positive for COVID-19 and the House declined to allow the speech to go forward as originally planned.
House Republican leadership could not be immediately reached for comment on the governor’s letter.
The night before his scheduled address, Parson notes in his letter, a House committee met in a crowded hearing room packed with witnesses and legislators.
“I could not understand why House leadership would condone such an unsafe hearing while preventing the State of the State from moving forward,” Parson wrote, “as we had taken every precautionary measure to limit unnecessary attendance, ensure social distancing and provide overflow viewing areas.”
Parson says he was informed Wednesday morning that he could deliver his speech to an empty House chamber, with his address live streamed for remote viewing.