Sen. McCaskill explains why the Senate can't be bothered to do anything about the climate bill : Some senators are skeptical lawmakers will be ready to tackle another huge issue after finishing health care. "After you do one really, really big, really, really hard thing that makes everybody mad, I don't think anybody's excited about doing another really, really big thing that's really, really...
Via The Hotline, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, after initially stating that despite being pro-choice, she was okay with the Stupak amendment has changed her tune, at least according to her Twitter feed. Text: Oppose Stupak.Don't think we should change current...
Sen. Claire McCaskill doesn't believe a House amendment in the healthcare bill that restricts a woman's right to access or pay for abortion will bring down the legislation in the U.S. Senate. "I am not sure that this is going to be enough to kill the bill," McCaskill said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday. "And frankly, once again, this is another example of having to govern with moderates....
" ... Talent’s primary paying job is as a consultant with the public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard [ The linked page details Fleishman-Hilliard's place in the 9/11 covert operation ]. He is a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, with a specialty in military readiness. He also sits on an advisory panel for the chief of naval operations. ... " Associated Press Sep. 13,...
Cross posted from Show Me Progress Just looking at the bumper stickers in the parking lot tells you a lot about the activism of this crowd. Senators Franken and Harkin at the press availability before the speeches. Before the press availability and the speeches we walked over to one of the entrances. Our media credentials (ours and those issued by the event) were clearly visible. As we started taking...
An open thread this morning, to bear witness to the funeral of Senator Kennedy , pay final respects and remember a great leader. Live video coverage here on NECN, via Boston.com and without time delay. It is a rainy day in Boston; buses have been bringing in politicians, celebrities, family and friends to Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Basilica. Earlier they gathered at the JFK Library one last time:...
The computer has spoken: Copenhagen will be a failure | Grist Cancel your plans for flying to Denmark this December. Send the polar bear suits back to the costume shop, and quit boning up on all those U.N. acronyms (IPCC ... UNFCCC ... AWG-LCA ...). The COP-15 climate talks in Copenhagen will fail. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, “one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists,”...
There are a couple of video versions of the ' Rosa Parks ' incident at Senator Claire McCaskill's town hall meeting on health reform. The incident led to a black woman being hustled out of the facility by the cops. The African-American woman at the center of this, Maxine Johnson, arrived late at the town hall meeting. She arrived with company and sat down in the auditorium. The Rosa Parks sign was...
So, yesterday I went to a town hall meeting with Senator Claire McCaskill. It was not a pleasant scene, but it was also not the out of control festival of anger the press has been making these things out to...
Now that congress has approved the spending billions of tax payer money on various stimulus programs, with the most popular being the recent extension of the Cash for Clunkers program, they have decided to reward themselves with $550 million on new luxury jets . This just reinforces that the concept of cutting back for anyone in government or the current administration seems to be a long forgotten...
THE MCCASKILL MODEL Sen. Claire McCaskill held an orderly and mostly respectful townhall meeting in Kennett Monday that allowed opponents of the Democratic healthcare plan to air their views and presented the junior Senator an opportunity to clarify misinformation. In the first clip, WATCH how McCaskill kicks off the meeting with a sense of openness and transparency. She selects someone "so mad...
Senator John Thune voted against H.R. 3435, the two-billion-dollar extension of Cash for Clunkers yesterday. The bill still passed on a mostly party-line vote*, despite failed wiseguy attempts by Thune and his GOP colleagues to delay the bill with non-germane amendments , like Thune's Government Ownership Exit Plan (not that I can blame a guy too much for trying). What I find interesting here is that...
Unlike her Republican counterpart in Missouri--and BOTH Republicans in Tennessee, Claire McCaskill voted against a highly effective stimulus program benefiting her constituents tonight: Cash for Clunkers.
After all that Twitter sturm und drang Senator Claire McCaskill voted "Nay" today on HR 3435, the "Cash for Clunkers" extension. She was only one of four Democrats to vote against the extension (Leahy, McCaskill, Nelson, Warner). Seven republicans voted for it (Alexander, Bond, Brownback, Collins, Corker, Snowe, Voinovich). Bond and Brownback voted for it? Holy cow, there must have...
The successful Cash for Clunkers program is coming down to the wire in the Senate. They have until the end of the week to pass the bill before they head into an August recess. But if they try to change the bill from what the House passed already - which was just a straight extension - the bills would have to be reconciled, and that would require the House coming back from its recess. Otherwise, it'll...
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