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Missouri House District 5 - Convention of States

Welcome to the information portal for the Missouri Legislative House District No. 5. The Convention of States Missouri team is available to help you with any questions you may have about our efforts to call an Article V convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution to rein in our federal government and return power back to the states and the people.

The Missouri Information Page and the COS Missouri Lookup Tools for Getting Involved in Your Government Page contain links and tools to help you become a better self-governing citizen. Following is information specific to your Missouri House District. This is an open-access webpage and you are welcome to share it with family, friends and neighbors.

Please note that a House District can be nested within a Senate District or it can overlap two or more Senate Districts. If more than one Senate District is shown, please refer to the lookup-tools page shown above to find your senator.

The State Representative for Missouri House District No. 5  is: Louis Riggs

Representing all or part of: Marion and Ralls counties

Legislative website: Representative Louis Riggs

Legislative phone number: (573) 751-3613

Legislative email: Louis.Riggs@house.mo.gov

House District No. 5 Map

 

The State Senator for Missouri Senate District No.18 is: Cindy O'Laughlin

Legislative website: Senator Cindy O'Laughlin

Legislative phone number: (573) 751-7985

Legislative email: (Use direct link on the senator's webpage.)

Senate District No. 18 Map

 

COS Missouri House District Captain is: Unfilled

Please consider volunteering as a District Captain or one of the other positions which help to support our project. Detailed information about the various roles is available HERE.

We also have free online courses available through COS University which will help you to understand our goals and our mission. In order to register for these courses you will need to confirm your email. HERE is a tool to help you with that process.

Ballotpedia details about Missouri House District No. 5 are available HERE.

The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Surveys from the 2020 census for your state House and/or Senate districts are available HERE.

Links to city and county governments within this Missouri House District are:

Please use the following link for any questions, comments or suggestions:

 

 

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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