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The House Budget Committee Approves Taking Over the Capitol Building

The House Budget Committee approved a resolution that would give them control of the capitol building's facilities.

Missy Shelton has the story from Jefferson City.

The legislature can legally take over any part of the capital building at any time.

No exceptions were made in the resolution, meaning the governor's office is included in the take over.

Resolution sponsor, Tim Green, said he wants to move legislators to different offices to make them accessible to the disabled.

Green said the governor is not included in these plans.

Actuality:Timothy Green
RunTime:
OutCue:
Contents: "We are not touching the governor whatsoever and that's what direction this interview is going and I'm not going to talk to you anymore." [61K WAV file - Tim Green]

The governor has no veto power over the resolution if it is given approval by the legislature...He'd just have to find a new office.

From Jefferson City, I'm Missy Shelton.

Missy Shelton has the story from Jefferson City.

The House Budget Committee approved a resolution giving them control the entire captial building's facilities...The governor's office is no exception.

If approved by both the House and Senate, the governor would have no power to veto the measure.

But resolution sponsor, Tim Green, said the resolution deals with handicap accessability, not relocating the governor.

Actuality:Tim Green
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OutCue:
Contents: "You have some legislators on second tiers and handicap constituents can't get up to visit those." [67K WAV file - Tim Green]

Green also said some legislators' offices do not have enough room to hold visiting constituents.

From Jefferson City, I'm Missy Shelton.

Missy Shelton has the story from Jefferson City.

The legislaturehas legal power to take over any parts of the capital building it wants.

The resolutuion before the House states the legislature want's the whole shoot'n match -- the entire five-story capitol building.

The Resolution sponsor, Tim Green, said the purpose is to get enough sapce to make lawmakers' offices handicap accessible.

But the governor's spokesman Chris Sifford, says that for the present, they're not worried:

Actuality:Chris Sifford
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OutCue:
Contents: "I don't foresee a future in which the governor's office or other executive offices are not located in the state capitol." [83K WAV file - Chris Sifford]

If the resolution is approved by the legislature, the governor would have no veto power...He'd just have to look for new office space.

From Jefferson City, I'm Missy Shelton.