Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley took the gavel in a decidedly Republican chamber.

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The GOP has a 106-57 majority. Yet he appointed Democrats to chair three of the 44 House committees. Tilley says he chose the most qualified people, regardless of political party. Representative Chris Kelly, who chaired the House Budget Committee in the 1980s when Democrats were in control, now chaira the Public Safety and Corrections Appropriations Committee...