BILL NUMBER: DATE: HR 3951 1/27/2026 COMMITTEE: Consent and Procedure TESTIFYING: IN SUPPORT OF IN OPPOSITION TO FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
WITNESS NAME INDIVIDUAL: WITNESS NAME: PHONE NUMBER: ARNIE C. AC "HONEST-ABE" DIENOFF-STATE PUBLIC ADVO BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION NAME: TITLE:
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EMAIL: ATTENDANCE: SUBMIT DATE: In-Person 1/27/2026 11:54 PM THE INFORMATION ON THIS FORM IS PUBLIC RECORD UNDER CHAPTER 610, RSMo. MISSOURI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WITNESS APPEARANCE FORM
BILL NUMBER: DATE: HR 3951 1/27/2026 COMMITTEE: Consent and Procedure TESTIFYING: IN SUPPORT OF IN OPPOSITION TO FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
WITNESS NAME INDIVIDUAL: WITNESS NAME: PHONE NUMBER: SARAH BERRY BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION NAME: TITLE:
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EMAIL: ATTENDANCE: SUBMIT DATE: Written 1/25/2026 7:28 PM THE INFORMATION ON THIS FORM IS PUBLIC RECORD UNDER CHAPTER 610, RSMo. I oppose this practice not because civic traditions lack value, but because priorities do.
When representatives schedule or host nonessential chamber activities while compressing hearings, limiting public testimony, or rushing complex legislation, it signals a misalignment with their core responsibility: representing the people.
Public buildings, staff time, and procedural bandwidth exist for governance—not optics.
Until legislative duties are treated as the primary obligation they are, these discretionary activities should yield to the work Missourians actually sent their representatives to do.