Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster told lawmakers they need to clean up their own act relating to special interest funding while in front of an investigative committee today.
Koster appeared in front of a special House investigative committee and defended his actions in lawsuits involving Five Hour Energy, AT&T, and Pfizer.
He also used the opportunity to call on the legislature to restrict special interest money to elected officials.
"First, we should lower the 48-hour reporting requirement from five thousand dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars," Koster said. "Second, we should ban lobbyist gifts to public officials, a pledge I myself have now taken."
Some Republican officials, including the Senate majority leader, have already filed ethics bills for consideration in the next legislative session.
