One thing we can certainly say about our new junior senator, she has not been shy when it comes to courting media attention. The Missouri Political News Service has chronicled Senator McCaskill’s growing media prowess; be it an appearance on CNN’s Lou Dobbs during the immigration debate, or her feature write up in the New […]

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Sen. McCaskill’s comments on the Senate’s all nighter: ”We have to be clear with the American people who is blocking the way forward,” she said. We need to out them and this is the first step of effectively outing the republican strategy, which is, their success is our failure. And that’s exactly what Americans are […]

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By John Gizzi The surprising statement by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D.-Mo.) last week that U.S. involvement in Iraq is “squandering the lives of our bravest” and “squandering the future of our nation” came under sharp fire from both the White House and a congressional colleague of McCaskill from the Show-Me State. Both White House spokeswoman […]

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From The Political Tipster: “Claire McCaskill – The Senator from Missouri might be useful in swinging a key Midwestern state into the Democrat column. However, she was only elected two years ago.” Read more…

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Huffington Post: By Carl M. Baxley Jr. Over the last several years I have sat silently as I watched politicians accuse each other of “not supporting our troops.” On Wednesday, Senator Jim Webb tried to get a vote before congress to require that all military personal be allowed an equal amount of time at home […]

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“At the other end of the spectrum, the lowest party unity score among Democratic freshmen was registered by Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (76.2 percent), who has the third lowest Democratic score overall. McCaskill, who ousted Republican incumbent Jim Talent, opposed the immigration overhaul legislation that the Senate recently scuttled. And last month, McCaskill was one […]

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By Roxana Tiron Freshman Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a former prosecutor and Missouri state auditor, is planning to offer several amendments to the defense authorization bill in an effort to curb contracting mismanagement and abuse in Iraq. The new member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is coming into her own, drawing on her auditor […]

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By Sen. Claire McCaskillFirst of all, Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-Va.) amendment (S. 2001) is great, we need to pass it. Second of all, I hope we can hope get out of this bad habit that we’re getting in. If Missouri had to get to 60 percent to elect someone, I don’t think Missouri would get […]

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By Gardiner Harris WASHINGTON, June 27 — In the midst of a Senate hearing about the money and gifts that drug makers routinely provide to doctors, Senator Claire McCaskill mentioned that she had a brother who runs a restaurant. “And he said that the most lucrative part of his business was the private room that […]

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From the Post-Dispatch– WASHINGTON— Sen. Claire McCaskill compared herself to Goldilocks when voting against ending debate on a sweeping immigration reform bill this month. The bill, she said, was never “just right.” Sen. Bond also remains opposed to cloture on the immigration sham.

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