On this episode, former state Rep. Stephen Webber "flips the script" and asks St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum about his time covering Missouri politics.

The Des Peres Republican also discussed why he's running to become speaker of the Missouri House starting in the 2023 legislative session.

The Steelville Republican also discussed likely and potential special sessions that could take place over the next few months.

St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum talks with Eric Schmid of STLPR and Hannah Meisel of NPR Illinois about how Illinois Democrats are handling an unusual redistricting cycle.

The last Missouri Democrat to win a U.S. Senate race talks about whether her party can succeed in the 2022 contest to replace U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.

Ashcroft is in favor of reinstituting Missouri's government-issued photo identification law and letting voters decide whether constitutional amendments should need a two-thirds majority instead of a simple majority.

The GOP-controlled Missouri legislature passed several major initiatives in the just-completed 2021 session. But it wasn't exactly easy.

Democratic Sen. Lauren Arthur of Kansas City talks about how her colleagues plan to make an impact during the last week of the 2021 legislative session.

Sen. Paul Wieland discusses the legislature's decision not to fund Medicaid, and whether there's cracks in the General Assembly's relationship with Gov. Mike Parson.

Democratic Representative Cori Bush made history when she became the first Black Congresswoman for Missouri, unseating the Clay political dynasty. She brought her background as a nurse, activist, organizer, single mom and pastor to her new role and has jumped headfirst into advocating for issues ranging from reparations for Black Americans to taxing billionaires to Medicare for All. She teamed up with Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey and Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth to introduce a bill that would bring together federal agencies and create a mapping tool to help allocate environmental funding from the Biden administration. Just last week, she also joined forces with New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to introduce a $1 trillion dollar bill to fund environmental justice projects for the next four years. In this episode, we’ll hear from Senator Tammy Duckworth and Congresswoman Cori Bush about three major environmental justice bills: the Environmental Justice for All Act, the Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act, and the Green New Deal for Cities Act.—This episode was a collaboration with Jason Rosenbaum, St. Louis Public Radio political correspondent and co-host of the Politically Speaking podcast. You can listen to the Politically Speaking episodes with Senator Duckworth and Congresswoman Bush at stlpr.org or anywhere you get podcasts.

Duckworth spoke with St. Louis Public Radio's Eric Schmid and We Live Here's Jia Ling Yang and Lauren Brown about her legislation.

In a collaboration with St. Louis Public Radio’s "We Live Here," Jason Rosenbaum spoke with U.S. Rep. Cori Bush about two pieces of environmental legislation that she proposed in her first few months in office.