Senate Committee Unanimously Passes New Redistricting Map
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Senate Committee Unanimously Passes New Redistricting Map

Date: April 4, 2011
By: Kadee Brosseau
State Capitol Bureau
Links: SB 264, View Missouri Map, View St. Louis Area

Intro: 
The Senate Redistricting Committee unanimously passed a new plan that would combine the two districts in St.Louis city into one.
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Wrap: After the results of the 2010 census, Missouri will lose one seat in the Unites States House.

The Senate committee agreed on a map that is similar to the redistricting plan proposed by the House. Both plans will eliminate a congressional seat held by a Democrat in St. Louis city.

The committee's chair Senator Scott Rupp says the new map based on the populations of different areas as well as other considerations.

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Description: "Our committee's attempt was to make them equal in population. Also to try to make them as contiguous and compact as possible. And also take into account the existing lines."

Rupp says under this plan, every single district will gain population due to the lost seat.

The next step for this plan is the Senate floor.

From the State Capitol, I'm Kadee Brosseau.  

Intro: 
A redistricting plan passed unanimously in a Senate Committee hearing as lawmakers plan for Missouri's loss of one congressonal seat.
RunTime:  0:44
OutCue:  SOC

Wrap: Under the new plan, all of Missouri's districts will grow in population.

The committee's chair Senator Scott Rupp says the loss of a congressional seat will cause some districts to grow more than others.

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Description: "Every single district had to gain population due to the loss of the congressional seat. Now, some districts had to gain far more population. For example, the city of St. Louis in the first district had to gain a hundred and sixty one thousand people."
 

The House has also proposed a plan that would account for the lost seat, following the 2010 census. Both the House and Senate plans would combine the two districts in St. Louis City into one, a seat that is currently held by a Democrat.

The Senate committee's plan will now be brought before the Senate.

From the State Capitol, I'm Kadee Brosseau.