This Week in Statehouse Action: License to Bill edition

In the beginning months of any given year – when pretty much every state is holding its legislative session – the days are short, but the committee dockets are loooooooooooong.

Consequently, each week is positively lousy with statehouse action.

So! Let’s Thunderball our way into it.

From Missouri With Love

Missouri Republicans are up to their old (...like, actually old, from way back in 2015) women-policing antics.

• As part of the state House rules package (which pretty much every lawmaking body has to adopt before doing any actual lawmaking) that passed at the beginning of session, the GOP majority decided that women wearing dresses or tops that expose their [[GASP]] arms is just too distracting, or something.

  • So, after years of not doing anything stupid regarding women’s “appropriate attire,” they decreed that all female House members and staffers must conceal their offending limb…