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In This
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- New Chair
- Encoded Ammunition
- Inaugural Ball
- A Little Bit of Humor…
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Meet the
Chair Of
The
Children and Families Committee
 The Speaker of the House has
appointed me Chair of the Special
Committee on Children and Families. This
is a great honor. Chairing a committee is a huge responsibility that
involves working hard to bring good legislation to the floor.
Committees are the heart of
“the sausage factory.” The committees hear bills and work out
problems with philosophy, unintended consequences and grammatical
errors. Committee members
evaluate bills and, if a majority of them agree a bill is worthy
legislation, it could go to the House floor for full debate among the 163
representatives. Theoretically, the more work we do in our committee, the
fewer problems and fewer amendments will emerge during full floor
debate.
Last session, the committee was renamed “Family
Services.” I asked the speaker to return it to its original name,
“Children and Families Committee.” While this may not seem like
a big change, the philosophical distinction is enormous. “Family
Services” sounds like the committee is focused on governmental
intervention into the family. “Children and Families” is more
descriptive of how our public policies affect our children and families in
the state of Missouri for better or
worse.
In addition to serving the House of
Representatives as the Chair of the Children and Families Committee, I have also been appointed to be on
the Health Care Policy Committee, the Elections Committee and the Special Committee on State Parks and
Waterways.
Even though my plate will be very full, I am very
grateful to be continuing my service on the Elections Committee. With all the shenanigans
happening across the country in various elections, it is more important
than ever that we have principled people guiding our election
process. The state of Minnesota has been embarrassed by its
inability to conduct a fair recount. When George W. Bush won in
2000, the sore losers claimed it was the hanging chad. Now that we
have spent millions of dollars to replace punch cards, Minnesota is
proving that there are many other ways to dispute election results.
Click here for more on this story: Funny Business in
Minnesota.
For those of you who are watching the national
scene, the integrity with which we handle these important elections does
not become a big issue until something goes wrong and the national
spotlight is on us. Having good procedures in place will keep
Missouri
from being a national spectacle. More importantly, fair elections
are the bedrock of any honest government.
A Few
Bullet Points
Several of you have written me with concerns over
proposed legislation that will require serial numbers on ammunition.
This is another way to create hardships on gun owners. Our country
has survived for centuries without needing to put special codes on
bullets. If our founding fathers could see us now, they would
certainly raise their eyebrows and ask how we could be serious.
This proposal is wasteful, labor intensive and
does nothing to actually stop crime. If you would like to read more
on what this legislation would do, click here: Encoded Ammunition Fact
Sheet.
You can trust that I will not support anything
such as this proposal. While the idea of this legislation is
alarming, it has little chance of coming to the floor for debate, unless
the point of the debate would be to soundly defeat such a bill. It
is not too unusual for legislators to introduce legislation that borders
on the ridiculous, but that is their right to offer any proposal for
discussion. Passing a law like this would be like putting our good
citizens in handcuffs. You can be confident that the freedom-loving
Missouri
legislators will hold the line on protecting our liberties.
Your
thoughts are important to me, so please let me know if you have any
questions about the committees or the bullet coding
bill.. You can send me your opinion
by clicking here: Cynthia Davis.
The
First Family of District 19
At
the Inaugural Ball
Bernie and Cynthia were joined
at the Ball by daughters Cathryn, Amanda and Susanna and sons Matthew and
Philip. My accountant calls Philip a “ham
bone.”
A Little
Bit of Humor…
 Courtroom exchange between a lawyer and a
witness:
Q: Is your
appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent
to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to
work.
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