Missouri committee advances broad education substitute after debate over reading mandates; eminent-domain amendment for foreign-owned energy firms fails A House special committee voted to report a large education committee substitute after heated debate over mandatory reading programs and who would pay for new staff; a proposal to bar foreign-owned companies from using eminent domain for wind and solar projects failed on the floor of the committee.

Missouri lawmakers are tangled in a heated debate over education funding and literacy mandates as they push a sweeping committee substitute forward, but will it pass the scrutiny of the full House?

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