JEFFERSON CITY — Republicans in the Missouri House gave preliminary approval Monday to a plan asking voters to make it harder for citizens to change the state Constitution through ballot questions.

Facing heavy opposition and sit-in protests over the weekend by Democrats, the GOP-led chamber also was poised to give first-round approval Monday night to a landmark plan to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries to give President Donald Trump one additional safe Republican seat in the tightly contested U.S. House.

Monday’s initial votes are preliminary, with plans to take final, official votes on Tuesday before the proposals move to the Senate for deliberation.

Lawmakers are meeting in a special session called last month by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe after the president began pressin

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