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11/29/2012 - Republican lawmaker worried about affordability of Medicaid expansion:
Kurt Schaefer however, did not.
11/29/2012 - Gov. Jay Nixon announces support for Medicaid expansion:
Other Republican legislators, such as Columbia Sen. Kurt Schaefer and St. Charles County Sen. Tom Dempsey, want to wait for more information before taking a stance on the Medicaid expansion.
10/29/2012 - Missouri debates possible Medicaid expansion in 2014:
Senate Appropriations Chair Kurt Schaefer says public education funding would take a big hit if the state decided to expand.
10/29/2012 - The clock is ticking on Missouri legislators to expand Medicaid:
"When you're looking at increases of potentially 100 or 200 million dollars that you have to find because of expansion, there is only one place where there is a pot of money big enough to take that, and that is public education," said Senate Appropriations Chair Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia.
10/25/2012 - Bonds for capital improvements will be a major theme in next session :
Kelly and Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, are working on a nearly $1 billion bonding bill for the next session that would put the largest bond issue in state history before voters if it were passed.
10/11/2012 - Two legislators say a bond issue is in order :
Wrap: Democratic Representative Chris Kelly and Republican Senator Kurt Schaefer are working on a nearly one billion dollar bonding bill for the 2013 legislative session.
9/12/2012 - Lawmakers pass contraception bill in legislative veto session:
The only Republican to vote against the override, Columbia Senator Kurt Schaefer, said the law was unnecessary.
5/8/2012 - House-Senate make progress on budget, but remain divided:
Silvey said he would be open a plan put forward by Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, that would charge the program's participants a $700 premium for insurance coverage. Schaefer's plan was rejected on the Senate floor when an amendment was adopted to restore funding for the program at its current level.
5/10/2012 - State budget sent to governor's desk a day early:
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said the downward trend in higher education funding had to stop this year.
4/25/2012 - Missouri's Senate passes budget and ends stalemate:
A group of nine Republican senators threatened the budget's passage and presented a list of demands to Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, before they would let the budget come to a vote. 
4/25/2012 - Senate Passes Budget Bills:
And after it was all over, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer was asked if he was pleased with how the process went...
4/24/2012 - State budget held up in Senate.:
Sen. Jim Lembke, R-St. Louis County, was one of the nine senators who blocked a vote. Lembke directed his criticism toward Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia.
4/24/2012 - Senate rejects efforts to eliminate proposed state worker pay increase:
Appropriations Committee Chairman Senator Kurt Schaefer spoke against eliminating the pay raise for state workers.
4/17/2012 - Sunshine Law Clarification in the Works:
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, who said the bill would affect all local and state government agencies. 
4/12/2012 - State budget passes Senate Appropriations Committee. :
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said this was probably the most difficult budget year ever. The budget in the Senate is $86 million below what the House had passed last month, but freezes funding for K-12 and higher education.
3/5/2012 - Senate committee hears testimony on a bill for direct student vote on UM board of curators:
Columbia Republican Senator Kurt Schaefer sponsors the bill.
3/21/2012 - Missouri Senator Vows to Block One-Time Budget "Fixes":
Cape Girardeau Republican Senator Jason Crowell blasted Senate Appropriations Chair Republican Kurt Schaefer saying Schaefer is just putting temporary patches in the budget and leaving the problem to future generations.
3/14/2012 - Missouri state auditor releases report detailing Sunshine Law violations:
Among other changes the bill, sponsored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, would also change language regarding fines for violating the Sunshine Law. Currently, a knowing violation of the law could result in a fine up to $1,000. If passed, the bill would eliminate the requirement for a breach of the law to be a knowing violation and make the fine exactly $100.
2/7/2012 - Nixon softens the blow of his higher education cuts. :
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, expressed support for the additional funds, while still criticizing the governor's initial planned cuts.
2/2/2012 - MU Curators nomination blocked.:
Republican Senator Kurt Schaefer of Columbia withdrew Van Matre's name after facing strong opposition.
2/2/2012 - Senate blocks nomination to MU Board of Curators:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, sponsored Van Matre's nomination and withdrew it after opposition from members of his own party. Schaefer said Van Matre was qualified for the position, but that his appointment faced "insurmountable hills" in the Senate.
1/24/2012 - Nixon's administration skewed his proposed cuts to higher education. :
The more accurate figure caught the Senate Appropriations Chair Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, by surprised who agreed the 15.1 percent cut was the more accurate number.
1/23/2012 - Missouri Senators worried about after-effects of budget changes :
Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee said in the past three years, more than 25 percent of cuts were to higher education funding -- leaving the rate of state aid equal to what it was in 1997. Cuts to higher education funding are proportionately higher than anything else in the state government, said committee chair Kurt Schaefer. R-Columbia. 
1/18/2012 - Both the house and senate education committees try to figure out a funding formula. :
Republican Senator Kurt Schaefer says a change may not help every school district.
1/17/2012 - Public universities hit hardest by governor's budget. :
Nixon's budget would cut funding for all four year public institutions by 15.1% from last year's budget. It would be the largest percentage cut to Missouri's public universities in the past two decades. Senate Appropriations Chair Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, called the cuts "unacceptable."
- Missouri lawmakers finally make move on state budget:
Senate Budget Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said the increases were not applied to MU and Missouri State because, unlike the other universities, the schools are funded using statewide missions.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 10, 2012:
  Sen. Kurt Schaefer says Medicaid expansion is most important fiscal issue 12/12/2012
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 3, 2012:
Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, did not immediately oppose Nixon's stance.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of November 26, 2012:
Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, did not immediately oppose Nixon's stance.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of November 5, 2012:
"When you're looking at increases of potentially 100 or 200 million dollars that you have to find because of expansion, there is only one place where there is a pot of money big enough to take that, and that is public education," said Senate Appropriations Chair Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of October 29, 2012:
"When you're looking at increases of potentially 100 or 200 million dollars that you have to find because of expansion, there is only one place where there is a pot of money big enough to take that, and that is public education," said Senate Appropriations Chair Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of October 22, 2012:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said capital improvements will be a major theme in the next legislative session. He and Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, are working on a nearly $1 billion bonding bill to make improvements to the state's college campuses, mental health facilities, the state Capitol building and other infrastructure areas.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of October 15, 2012:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, and Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, are working on a bonding bill for the 2013 legislative session that would ask voters to pass the largest state bond issue in thirty years.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of October 8, 2012:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, and Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, are working on a bonding bill for the 2013 legislative session that would ask voters to pass the largest state bond issue in thirty years.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of September 17, 2012:
The Senate passed the bill over Nixon's objection 26-6, while the House passed it by a vote of 109-45. Only one Republican - Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia - in either chamber voted against the veto override. Seven Democrats joined 102 House Republicans in passing the law.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of September 10, 2012:
The Senate passed the bill over Nixon's objection 26-6, while the House passed it by a vote of 109-45. Only one Republican - Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia - in either chamber voted against the veto override. Seven Democrats joined 102 House Republicans in passing the law.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of May 14, 2012:
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said the downward trend in higher education funding had to stop this year.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of May 7, 2012:
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said the downward trend in higher education funding had to stop this year.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 30, 2012:
The state's $24 billion operating budget was held up on the Senate floor last week in an unprecedented move by nine Republican senators. The "gang of nine," as they have been dubbed by some fellow legislators, said they would hold up the budget process until a list of demands was met by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, who is the Senate Budget Chair.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 23, 2012:
A group of nine Republican senators threatened the budget's passage and presented a list of demands to Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, before they would let the budget come to a vote. 
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 16, 2012:
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, who said the bill would affect all local and state government agencies.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 9, 2012:
Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said this was probably the most difficult budget year ever. The budget in the Senate is $86 million below what the House had passed last month, but freezes funding for K-12 and higher education.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 2, 2012:
Even though the process has just begun and the House and Senate will need to meet in conference to discuss differences between their budgets, Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, said he would guarantee the state would have a balanced budget.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 12, 2012:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, has proposed a bill to allow students from the University of Missouri System to have a student curator.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 5, 2012:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, has proposed a bill to allow students from the University of Missouri System to have a student curator.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of February 6, 2012:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, sponsored Van Matre's nomination and withdrew it after opposition from members of his own party. Schaefer said Van Matre was qualified for the position, but that his appointment faced "insurmountable hills" in the Senate.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of January 30, 2012:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, sponsored Van Matre's nomination and withdrew it after opposition from members of his own party. Schaefer said Van Matre was qualified for the position, but that his appointment faced "insurmountable hills" in the Senate.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of January 23, 2012:
The more accurate figure caught the Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, by surprise. He agreed the 15.1 percent cut was the more accurate number.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of January 16, 2012:
Nixon's budget would cut all funding for four year institutions by 15.1 percent from last year's budget. It would be the largest percentage cut to Missouri's public universities in the past two decades. Senate Appropriations Chair Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, called the cuts "unacceptable."
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