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12/8/2010 - Governor's travel raises eyebrows:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia and a member of the Budget Committee, argued the concern is overblown.
12/7/2010 - Missouri's next speaker of the House, Steve Tilley, selects Chris Kelly as one of three Democratic Party chairs for Missouri's House of Representatives. :
Columbia's Chris Kelly is back chairing a budget committee. Molly Boland has more from Jefferson City.
12/2/2010 - Republican House speaker bestows chairmanships to three Democrats:
JEFFERSON CITY — There will be not just one, but three Democratic party chairs heading committees in the Republican-led House of Representatives come January, including Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
5/6/2010 - Divided house passes ethics legislation:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, lamented the party-line vote and said the Republicans were being dishonest.
5/3/2010 - House approves spinal cord funding measure:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said the amendment does nothing that isn't already in state law other than to "pander" to hard-line social conservatives.
4/6/2010 - $15 million cut could jeopardize in-state tuition freeze:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia and the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the Senate committee's $15 million cut possibly could be a bargaining tool for senators to use during the conference to get more of their ideas and demands into the budget.
4/28/2010 - House Democrats down on Nixon mandated cuts:
While Senate Democrats on the conference committee approved the final package, Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, was the only Democrat in the House to sign off on any of the conference committee recommendations.
4/28/2010 - The Missouri House is close to finishing the state budget:
But Democratic Representative Chris Kelly of Columbia said that's not the case.
4/26/2010 - House approves Cancer Center funding:
The question for a long time has been to figure out how to fit in the project that only three weeks ago wasn't even in the budget, said Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia. Kelly, who worked to restore funding for the center, said the legislation has been a long process but passed a major obstacle by receiving first-round approval. He said the "great champion" of the appropriation was Icet.
4/26/2010 - Public conference over budget turns private:
Columbia Democratic Representative Chris Kelly says...
4/26/2010 - Budget director says conference committee cuts are not enough:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, who participated in the conference, disagreed with Luebbering's claim about the likely need for withholds by Nixon.
4/21/2010 - The Missouri House seeks to loosen gun laws.:
Columbia Democratic Representative Chris Kelly doesn't think being able to carry a gun makes a person safer, but he said it is a constitutional right.
3/30/2010 - House passes new abortion restrictions:
Columbia area Democrats Chris Kelly and Mary Still both voted in opposition to the bill.
3/25/2010 - Columbia representatives split on omnibus House bill:
Rep.Chris Kelly, D-Columbia voted in favor of the amendment, one he said featured "carefully written language."
3/23/2010 - Amendment cutting state funding to schools passed in the Missouri House.:
Among them was Columbia Representative Chris Kelly who called Wallace "my hero."
3/23/2010 - House cuts $105 million from Foundation Formula:
While Wallace's amendment was supported by an overwhelming majority of Republicans -- including the chair of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County -- and only two Democrats supported it: Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, and Rep. Rachel Storch, D-St. Louis City.
3/22/2010 - House divided as budget debate set to begin:
The House Rules Committee approved the budget bills Monday, sending the measure to the floor. The vote, however,  was split according to party lines, Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said. Democrats unanimously were opposed to it, he said, because of concerns that the proposed budget is not balanced.
3/2/2010 - Budget crisis could lead to restructuring Missouri government:
House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and the committee's senior Democrat -- Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia -- both said that between $400 million to $500 million would have to be cut from the governor's spending plans for the 2011 fiscal year that will begin July 1.
3/2/2010 - Gov. Nixon's secret budget meetings cause bipartisan conflict:
Columbia Representative Democrat Chris Kelly.
2/9/2010 - House clarifies motives behind the federal Balanced Budget Amendment:
Democratic Representative Chris Kelly from Columbia says without any regulation, federal spending goes unchecked.
2/27/2010 - Schaefer calls for budget clarification, support for bond issue:
Last week, Republican leadership in the House decided to not bring to the floor a bill sponsored by Rep. Chris Kelly, R-Columbia, that would have put on the November ballot the possibility of the State issuing bonds for capitol improvement money. Schaefer, who sponsored a similar bill in the Senate last year, said he thinks the state is missing a prime opportunity.
2/23/2010 - House Budget Committee explores relocating geriatric inmates in order to collect revenue from Medicaid :
At the hearing, Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, inquired about a possible method that could alleviate the Corrections Department's budget pressures. 
2/22/2010 - Federal funds included by Nixon hit a snag in Congress:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, who sits on the House Budget Committee, said the committee's job will be more difficult if the funds do not materialize.
2/2/2010 - House approves 'stacked taxes' bill :
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said he supported the bill's original language, and because an amendment he offered to the bill would allow the city of Ashland to impose a lodging tax.
2/18/2010 - Budget cuts for Nixon's in-state tuition freeze would affect Missouri's prisons:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said Icet's instruction to cut budgets is especially needed during the budget crunch.
2/15/2010 - :
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, and co-sponsored by House Majority Floor Leader Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, is a bi-partisan effort to provide funds for higher education construction projects that includes $81 million for the University of Missouri. The bill has more than 50 co-sponsors.
2/1/2010 - Legislators discuss higher education budget woes:
Columbia Rep. Chris Kelly praised the contents of a letter sent by the commissioner of higher education two weeks ago to public college officials across the state but said it would be difficult to implement.
1/28/2010 - Lawmakers Discuss Abolishing Income Tax:
Legislators estimate the current 4.2 percent sales tax could increase to anywhere from 5.1 percent to 11 percent. Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said he supports the amendment "if they can work out the problems."
1/27/2010 - House committee passes federal balanced budget resolution:
"The worst problem, of course, is the growth of federal power that arises from being able to appropriate without limitation," said Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, a sponsor of the resolution. "That is what scares me the most." 
1/21/2010 - Reps. Icet and Kelly file resolution to Congress for balanced federal budget:
The representatives, Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said government spending in Washington is out of control and dangerous.
1/21/2010 - Rep. Kelly brings bond issue back:
JEFFERSON CITY - After a bond issue that would raise nearly $750 million for higher education construction projects fell short near the end of the 2009 legislative session, its sponsor Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, is putting the issue forward. And once again, the amendment has both wide bi-partisan support in the House and an uncertain future in the Senate.
1/20/2010 - Nixon calls for job growth, budget cuts jobs:
"It's a pit we don't know to get out of," said Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
1/12/2010 - Missouri facing cash-flow problems:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, expressed confidence that Luebbering will make the right recommendations for repaying the funds, but said that he will be more comfortable when he sees the specific plan.
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State Representative Chris Kelly (D-Columbia) points to the $10.7 million Sinquefield has dropped into the campaign to pass Proposition A as evidence of a flawed system.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 13, 2010:
Columbia Rep. Chris Kelly said he worried over the creation of a new judicial "bureaucracy" being formed to deal with non-violent prisoners. Price dismissed the idea.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 6, 2010:
There will be not just one, but three Democratic party chairs heading committees in the Republican-led House of Representatives come January, including senior House member Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of November 29, 2010:
There will be not just one, but three Democratic party chairs heading committees in the Republican-led House of Representatives come January, including senior House member Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of May 3, 2010:
Gov. Nixon's budget director, Linda Luebbering, agreed she was in the dark about what the final decisions would be. The process "is less transparent," Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said. But Kelly said private talks are inevitable because public discussion is less frank.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 26, 2010:
Gov. Nixon's budget director, Linda Luebbering, agreed she was in the dark about what the final decisions would be. The process "is less transparent," Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said. But Kelly said private talks are inevitable because public discussion is less frank.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 19, 2010:
The House perfected Chris Kelly's, D-Columbia, bill that will allow voters to decide spending of funds collected from a central fire and emergency dispatching services tax.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 12, 2010:
The House perfected Chris Kelly's, D-Columbia, bill that will allow voters to decide spending of funds collected from a central fire and emergency dispatching services tax.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 29, 2010:
House Democrats are preparing a flurry of amendments as the House begins its debate of next year's budget on Tuesday, said Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 22, 2010:
House Democrats are preparing a flurry of amendments as the House begins its debate of next year's budget on Tuesday, said Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 15, 2010:
House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and the committee's senior Democrat -- Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia -- emerged from separate meetings with the governor saying that between $400 million to $500 million would have to be cut from the governor's spending plans for the 2011 fiscal year that will begin July 1.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 8, 2010:
House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and the committee's senior Democrat -- Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia -- emerged from separate meetings with the governor saying that between $400 million to $500 million would have to be cut from the governor's spending plans for the 2011 fiscal year that will begin July 1.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 1, 2010:
House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and the committee's senior Democrat -- Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia -- emerged from separate meetings with the governor saying that between $400 million to $500 million would have to be cut from the governor's spending plans for the 2011 fiscal year that will begin July 1.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of February 22, 2010:
Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, said the state should put elderly prisoners on parole and into facilities so they can receive Medicare benefits.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of February 8, 2010:
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, and co-sponsored by House Majority Floor Leader Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, is a bi-partisan effort to provide funds for higher education construction projects that includes $81 million for the University of Missouri. The bill has more than 50 co-sponsors.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of January 25:
"The worst problem, of course, is the growth of federal power that arises from being able to appropriate without limitation," said Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, a sponsor of the resolution. "That is what scares me the most." 
- Missouri Government News for the Week of January 18, 2010:
Reps. Allen Icet, R-St. Louis County, and Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, filed a resolution for lawmakers in Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution forcing the federal government to make a balanced budget.
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