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House Speaker Dean Plocher is accused of calling female Republican lawmakers an “invasive species.”

“There is no evidence that Rep. (Hannah) Kelly acted in bad faith,” the House Ethics Committee stated in the report.

The House Ethics Committee meets again Monday afternoon

Political fallout from a draft ethics committee report could linger as the term-limited house speaker seeks the Republican nomination for secretary of state.

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, compared himself to former President Donald Trump and his legal woes.

House Speaker Dean Plocher said he cannot discuss complaints that he obstructed an ethics probe against him.

House Speaker Dean Plocher is running for Missouri secretary of state.

Dean Plocher stormed out of a press conference after refusing to answer questions about an ethics investigation Thursday.

House Speaker Dean Plocher is accused of obstructing an investigation into his own alleged ethical breaches.

The chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee alleges the speaker’s office obstructed the work of the panel.

Tensions on the House side of the Capitol have been building for weeks as the committee has slogged through multiple hourslong meetings over the past seven months.

The roster of people testifying includes aides and advisers to the speaker of the House.

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, is facing ethics allegations as he serves his final term in the Legislature.

The Des Peres Republican is running for lieutenant governor.

The chief clerk of the Missouri House said Dean Plocher threatened her job.

After an hour and a half testifying, Plocher quickly left out of a side door of the hearing room and ignored questions from reporters as he boarded an elevator.

Acting as an emissary for a potential vendor and arranging Capitol meetings with key lawmakers sound more like the actions of a lobbyist, said Republican Rep. Scott Cupps.

Rep. Hannah Kelly, R-Mountain Grove, who chairs the House Ethics Committee, decried the “theatrics” and said the panel must be given the time and latitude to complete its inquiry.

The 10-member panel could meet again before March 15.

Plocher, in his final year as speaker, has not yielded to calls for his resignation as he navigates the legislative session and attempts to run for lieutenant governor.

The embattled speaker of the Missouri House has amped up spending on his staff payroll amid an ongoing and potentially damaging ethics probe by his own colleagues.

Sen. Lincoln Hough, a Springfield Republican who oversees the Missouri Senate’s powerful budget-writing committee, is poised to leap into a crowded primary race for lieutenant governor.

“Is that it?” Plocher said, cutting off a reporter as he was asking a question, and ending the news conference. “Thank you, guys, I appreciate it.”

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The Des Peres Republican, a candidate for lieutenant governor, continues to face an ethics investigation into allegations of unlawful conduct.

Public records show the Missouri House spent $60,000 of taxpayer money renovating the speaker’s office, including $29,000 on new furniture.

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, is under fire for travel reimbursements.

“We just have popcorn and we’re watching the show,” Rep. Donna Baringer, D-������Ƶ, said on talk radio Friday.

Plocher’s choice of Rod Jetton is sharply criticized by the House Minority Leader Crystal Quade. 

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, is the subject of an ethics investigation.

It’s the latest sign the secretive committee is investigating House Speaker Dean Plocher.

State Rep. Adam Schwadron joins a relatively small list of Republican House members to call for the House speaker's ouster.

A bipartisan panel of lawmakers opened a new chapter Friday in the unfolding drama swirling around the most powerful man in the Missouri House of Representatives.

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, also is running for lieutenant governor.

Rep. Dean Plocher says he has acted “proactively and ethically” by paying back more than $3,000 in taxpayer funds he incorrectly received for trips dating to 2018.