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A panel of Missouri judges tasked with redrawing 34 state Senate districts released a tentative plan Monday.
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The Senate delay on the map follows a week in which senators spent hours both debating and filibustering possible maps, including holding rare Friday and Saturday sessions.
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A bipartisan commission in charge of redrawing Missouri’s House districts recently came to a surprising agreement, approving a map before the deadline. A political scientist from the University of Missouri says that likely means both parties thought the map was not politically skewed either way.
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Members of the Senate conservative caucus, and Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, hope GOP leaders will agree to target a safe Democratic congressional seat in Kansas City and create a 7-1 map in favor of Republicans.
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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 keeps Missouri’s congressional makeup intact, with six Republican seats and two Democratic ones. The plan now goes to the Senate.
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St. Louis Public Radio statehouse reporter Sarah Kellogg discusses what’s on the docket for the state in the next few months.
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While the Missouri House is slated to debate a congressional redistricting map early next week, the Senate this week made a rule change in part to continue improving working relationships.