The Senate narrowly turned back an effort Tuesday to make it easier to get cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and overseas.
It failed 51-48. The opponents included both Republican senators from Kansas, Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback.
Missouri's two senators, Republican Kit Bond and Democrat Claire McCaskill, backed the amendment. [...]
Tom Wiggans is out of the race for Kansas governor, not even a month after he announced his campaign.
His departure leaves the Democrats without a major candidate - again - to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback.
Here's the announcement:
"For a candidate who has recently returned to his home state [...]
Blackwell
A funeral was held Monday in Jefferson County for Earl Blackwell, a former Missouri Senate president pro tem and a major state political figure in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Blackwell, 85, died Thursday at his home in Hillsboro.
Despite his Democratic…
[...]Sen. Claire McCaskill was one of three Democratic votes over the weekend to reject the $1.1 trillion end–of-the-year spending bill.
It still passed, even with the Democrats’ no-room-for-error margin. Sixty votes are necessary these days to pass any bill laden with controversy and avoid a potential filibuster.
The bill squeaked [...]
Cynthia Davis says Thomas Schweich should have filed as a Democrat in the State Auditor's race.
Speaker Ron Richard and House Republicans hinted at an incentive package to keep a Ford plant in Claycomo, northeast of Kansas City.
Majority Leader Steve Tilley is expected to offer his own ethics bill [...]
JEFFERSON CITY | A far-reaching ethics bill cracking down on transfers between campaign committees and beefing up state penalties for political crimes was filed in the Missouri House today.
The bipartisan bill is sponsored by Reps. Tim Flook, a Liberty Republican, and Jason Kander, a Kansas City Democrat.
Most significantly, the bill [...]
Quinn
Ryan
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A new poll on Illinois’ top election races for the Feb. 2 primary shows Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan leading their respective parties for the nomination for governor.
Not a huge surprise…
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U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill will not support health care if it means putting people or the nation in a financial hole, the Missouri Democrat said over the weekend.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, McCaskill said she would…
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Senator Claire McCaskill was one of just three Democrats who voted against a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that included millions of dollars for projects around the Ozarks.
TARP WARSCongressman Roy Blunt and Congressman Ike Skelton both voted against a sweeping rewrite of complex financial regulations. Despite 27 Democrats peeling away, the legislation passed 223 to 202. The legislation would force more control over the country's financial institutions. Blunt, who voted for the [...] Add former state Sen. Mark Gilstrap's name to the list of Republicans considering a run for Congress next year.
Gilstrap served in the Kansas Senate for 12 years representing the western portion of Wyandotte County and the cities of Lansing and Leavenworth.
Gilstrap, who served as a Democrat only to later switch [...]
We've had some fun the last two weeks pointing out some of Sen. Pat Roberts' floor statements about proposed reductions in Medicare spending.
But let's be clear: Democrats and Republicans have been equally and outrageously hypocritical on this issue for years.
Republicans: Opposed Medicare when it started; have tried [...]
Rep. Ike Skelton
WASHINGTON — In his latest departure from the Democratic majority and liberals in his party, Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Lexington, joined congressional Republicans who voted against a wide-ranging $447 billion spending bill Thursday.
In a statement entered into the…
[...]Chad Livengood from the Springfield News-Leader is reporting that Alternative Opportunities, a non-profit run by Democrat donors, has had its ten winning contracts invalidated. Alternative Opportunities had named an outside contractor as the contract manager in violation of the bidding stipulations.
I was directly involved with one of the license office bids...
... and bear the deepest suspicions about the integrity of the bid award process.
I submitted a bid for one office [...]If you needed further convincing that the economy has been going to hell, Tuesday’s House Financial Services hearing offered more proof.
Thanks to The Hill, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, we learned that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who comes by his biblical references honestly – the Kansas City Democrat [...]
Both of Missouri's U.S. Senators joined a bipartisan group designed to address the country's mounting debt.Why don't we have a minimum tax?
A strategy for bringing the public option to Kansas
Blunt backs Forsee's letter on climate change
Gov. Jay Nixon is supporting a legislative push to strengthen DWI laws in Missouri, thoughts on the rivalries among GOP political consultants, and will other Democrats in [...]
A "gang of 10" progressive and conservative Democratic Senators reached a tentative deal health care compromise last night. They're waiting on a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office – here's an early outline of the deal.
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The Central West End home of David and Becky Nelson overflowed with enthusiastic contributors and well wishers last night for 8th congressional district hopeful Tommy Sowers of Rolla. Among the guests were St. Louis City Democratic Central Committee Chairman Brian Wahby; Chair of the Board of Alderman [...]
Blunt
WASHINGTON — After University of Missouri system president Gary Forsee declared opposition to cap-and-trade legislation, Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee responded with a withering critique of Forsee’s claim that the bills would heavily burden his school.
In a memo last…
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