Regular readers know that Rep. Gary Chism (R-Columbus), your House Insurance Chairman, has spent the better part of the last 15 years pushing insurance products from the State Capitol. His efforts to force Mississippians to buy auto insurance, a produ... »
House flips on worker comp Tempers ran high among some Democrats after the vote, with Rep. Bob Evans, D-Monticello, getting into a scuffle with Rep Bennett Malone, D-Carthage. Malone was one of three Democrats, along with Ken Morgan of Morgantown and J... »
There's a bill in the Mississippi House that I'm sure Republicans will try to paint as a "jobs creation" bill. Well, considering their utter failure to create jobs over the last 8 years, anything they promise regarding jobs needs a thorough going over... »
Miss. lawmakers try again on auto insurance checks A proposal to set up online computer checks to make sure drivers have auto insurance is again moving forward in the Mississippi House. A similar measure was vetoed last year by then-Gov. Haley Barbour.... »
Rule No. 26 of the House Rules states in part: “No member shall vote on any question in the result of which he is pecuniarily interested…” For many members of the Mississippi House, this rule stands as a prohibition against self dealing, a reminder tha... »
If Republican Speaker nominee Rep. Philip Gunn (R-Clinton) assumes the speakership in January, he’ll have the thinnest legislative record of any person to have ever reached such heights. Gunn hasn't taken the podium many times during his legislative t... »
