Cancel anytime. House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, addresses lawmakers at the start of 2024 Missouri legislative session at the Statehouse in Jefferson City on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024.

Formerly, Missouri House members were allotted 10 minutes to speak on the final vote of a House bill. That time has now been cut in half. Missouri House members now only have five minutes to speak ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The new general assembly in Jefferson City will be operating under new rules. Missouri House members will now have five minutes to speak on a bill before the final vote ...

Jonathan Patterson, R-Lee's Summit, is not only the first Kansas City-area legislator elected to be Missouri House Speaker since before the Civil War, he's also the first Asian American elected.

Ashley Aune, Missouri House Minority Leader, walked in. Aune is a Democrat who represents District 14 in the Northland area of Kansas City. She was there to meet with Patterson weeks before he was ...