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Rowden also spoke about the Senate’s progress on congressional redistricting as well as how he feels the 2022 legislative session is going one month in.
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While senators were initially scheduled to debate the map this week, ongoing negotiations and acrimony delayed the process.
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The somewhat surprising agreement comes as the commission in charge of drawing Missouri’s Senate districts has yet to approve a map.
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The map would likely keep the current congressional makeup in Missouri but is expected to generate fierce debate on the House floor.
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Missouri’s 2022 legislative session begins Wednesday with lawmakers in both the House and Senate gaveling in at noon.
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Legislation redrawing the Board of Aldermen map passed without a single "no" vote. That's in stark contrast to deadlocks elsewhere, including St. Louis County.
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One more vote is needed to send the map to Mayor Tishaura Jones. Because of a 2012 charter change, the redistricting process cut the number of aldermen from 28 to 14.
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The panel announced during a status hearing Friday that it will go ahead with in-person oral arguments, even though two sets of plaintiffs had said earlier in the week that the case could be decided solely on the briefs and written testimony that have already been filed.
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Nine members of the aldermanic legislation committee voted in favor of the redistricting map. One voted against it, one voted present, and one abstained.
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The community of 32,000, one of the only growing cities in the Metro East, is split between two congressional districts. Some say this drastically hurts its representation.