Mississippi Business Journal » representative government http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 House changes committee rules to favor GOP http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/12/house-changes-committee-rules-to-favor-gop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=house-changes-committee-rules-to-favor-gop http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/01/12/house-changes-committee-rules-to-favor-gop/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:49:45 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=50521 JACKSON — The Mississippi House changed its rules yesterday to ensure Republicans have a majority on both money committees. Under longtime rules, the House speaker could name three members to the budget-writing Appropriations Committee and three to tax-writing Ways and Means. Thirty members of each were selected based on seniority. Six were chosen from each [...]

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