KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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....
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
" ... 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,...
They gave us a republic (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
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...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
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:...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
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,”...
aidan maconachy blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
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...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
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...
Saving to Invest (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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...
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
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...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
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.
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
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...
D-Day (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
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...
Gretawire (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Below is an email from my FNC colleague.....it is a copy of a twitter from a US Senator -------------------------- From: Turner, Trish To: Subject: URGENT ---- ANOTHER Dem opposes extension of Cash for Clunkers Check out this Twitter from Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO: From: @clairecmc Sent: Jul 31, 2009 1:31p We simply cannot afford any more taxpayr $ to extend cash for clunkers. [...]
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Under fire from a conservative gay group, Sen. Claire McCaskill has clarified the reason she voted against expanding a conceal and carry gun law this week. McCaskill voted against the amendment, and explained her reasoning by saying, "this is a foot in the door that would require, for example, the laws in Vermont on gay marriage to be enforced in Missouri. It just kills me, these guys, that they...
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