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The White House projected that annual budget deficit to be about $1.33 trillion in fiscal 2012. That would represent about 8.5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, but the deficit would fall to about 5.5 percent of GDP the following fiscal...
Steelman is one of the candidates running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri – which is, of course, a prime nomination to have, considering that sitting Senate Claire McCaskill is widely expected to be a prominent member of the next...
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) talks to a reporter during a series of votes in Washington December 17, 2011. The U.S. Senate voted on Saturday to extend a payroll tax cut for two months in legislation that also attempts to force President Barack Obama... View Photo »
I get that it is an election year and that’s going to be put out there, but I’m honestly trying to do my job
Further complicating the spending problems in the House is a bipartisan effort by free-spending politicians to go back to earmarking special projects for home state vendors. The Senate rejected an effort by Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Claire...
Steelman is one of the candidates running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri – which is, of course, a prime nomination to have, considering that sitting Senate Claire McCaskill is widely expected to be a prominent member of the next...
And while both groups declined to comment for this article, the Senate team has plenty of ammunition to use against vulnerable Democrats. In May, the senatorial committee rolled out a web ad hitting Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Sherrod Brown...
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: (L-R) U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK), and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) participate in a news conference on facility... View Photo »
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck
That’s just the way the Corp has worked,” said Sen. Roy Blunt, R. “The very people that began to direct the Corp that way were in some cases the people who had written the Constitution.” U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D. , disagrees that earmarks should...
And because it was a man-made disaster, the Federal Emergency Management Agency wouldn’t help. The corps, after some pressure, has rebuilt the levee there to a level of 55 feet of flood protection, not as high as its former level of 62.5 feet. Sen....
Claire Conner McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American Democratic politician, currently the junior United States Senator from the state of Missouri and former State Auditor of Missouri. She defeated Republican Senator Jim Talent in 2006 by a margin of 50% to 47%. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri in her own right. ... Full Article
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , center, accompanied by Kathryn Condon, executive director of the Army National Cemeteries Program, third from left, is briefed by Arlington National Cemetery officials during a visit at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. , Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, to...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) steps onto an elevator after voting for President Barak Obama's America Jobs Act October 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. The bill failed to pass the Senate. Senate Democrats may now break the legislation up into parts that will...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 26: U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) speaks to reporters September 26, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Senate has approved a Continuing Resolution to fund FEMA and avoided a government shutdown through November 18.
View Photo »Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , talks to reporters after the Senate vote on a short term funding bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011.
View Photo »Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , left, looks at Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine transforming wartime contracting, focusing on recommendations...
View Photo »In this image released by NBC's Meet the Press, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , left, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. , appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington, Sunday, July 31, 2011. The U.S. Senate plunged on Sunday into what many lawmakers, the White House, and millions of...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) talks with reporters after the Senate voted to table the House of Representatives' Budget Control Act at the U.S. Capitol July 29, 2011 in Washington, DC. After much arm-twisting and bargaining, Speaker of the House John Boehner...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: (L-R) U.S. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK), and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) participate in a news conference on facility closures of U.S. Postal Service December...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (R) shakes hands with Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) (L) as Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) (2nd L), and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (3rd L) look on at the end of a news conference on facility closures of U.S....
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) speaks as other congressional members, including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) (L), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) (2nd L), Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) (3rd L), and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (R) listen during a...
View Photo »Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , questions Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, during the committee's hearing on recent press reports about practices at the Dover Air Force Base Mortuary...
View Photo »FILE - In this May 17, 2011 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCaskill has sold a private plane she co-owns with her husband, months after her use of it for official business and failure to pay back taxes created a political headache.
View Photo »St. Louis area businessman John Brunner announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in St. Charles, Mo. Brunner is the third Republican now seeking to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in the 2012 elections.
View Photo »Surrounded by two large American flags hung besides boxes of nail polish remover and petroleum jelly at a distribution facility for his family's long-time business, St. Louis area businessman John Brunner announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in St. Charles, Mo. ...
View Photo »President Barack Obama speaks with reporters after visiting tornado victims in Joplin, Mo. , Sunday, May 29, 2011. From left are, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and his wife Georganne, Obama, and Joplin Mayor Mike Woolston.
View Photo »U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo. , announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate Tuesday, May 17, 2011, in Creve Coeur, Mo. Akin joins former state Treasurer and fellow Republican Sarah Steelman in challenging incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill.
View Photo »U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo. , gets a hug from two of his daughters, Abigail, left, and Hanna, center, after announcing his candidacy for U.S. Senate Tuesday, May 17, 2011, in Creve Coeur, Mo. Akin joins former state Treasurer and fellow Republican Sarah Steelman in challenging incumbent...
View Photo »Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. , center, accompanied by Kathryn Condon, executive director of the Army National Cemeteries Program, third from left, is briefed by Arlington National Cemetery officials during a visit at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. , Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, to...
View Photo »I get that it is an election year and that’s going to be put out there, but I’m honestly trying to do my job
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck
I was proud that we got a temporary ban on earmarks in place. But it's not enough ... With politicians on both sides of the aisle creatively trying to get around the ban, and talking openly about ending it, it's time to end earmarks permanently.
It was a massive attempt ... There was a slush fund created and then members were allowed to offer amendments to use that slush for fund for pet projects. Then they tried to say it was all going to be competitive. Well, you know, if you look at it closely, it just doesn't pass the smell test.
it would be an 'I don't get it' vote ... that tells the American people Congress is really out of touch.
it would be an 'I don't get it' vote ... that tells the American people Congress is really out of touch.
I’ve always opposed earmarks and have never backed down from a fight
I have heard too many appropriators say informally that they are very hopeful that we can get back to earmarking in the future with few restrictions ... That has come out of the mouths of Democrats and Republicans.
I was shocked when I saw the House Armed Services Committee put into the Defense Authorization bill hundreds of earmarks
Under the contract, the department will acquire 1.7 million doses of smallpox vaccine for the strategic national stockpile ... The vaccine is reported to be more expensive and has a shorter shelf-life than the vaccine currently in the SNS, and it is unknown whether this produce is actually safe for huma...
When you have the traveling public tell you that sometimes these pat-downs are unacceptable, trust me, they are not exaggerating
I’m sorely disappointed that too few members of the Supercommittee were willing to compromise, and that too many members were instead more interested in protecting millionaires and billionaires from higher taxes on their second million dollars ... I plan to keep up my fight for a commonsense plan to sol...
Think about that in contrast with the federal government having to reduce expenditures ... If we can get 80 percent of the capability at half the cost, doesn't that make sense that we would work toward a blend of these aircraft on our carriers? And when the Missouri legislature passed a resolution calli...
Think about that in contrast with the federal government having to reduce expenditures ... If we can get 80 percent of the capability at half the cost, doesn't that make sense that we would work toward a blend of these aircraft on our carriers? And when the Missouri legislature passed a resolution calli...
I just hope we get it settled.
I'm glad we don't have these kinds of problems in St. Louis, where ... union representatives are working arm-in-arm and lockstep with management in this company bringing down the costs of this aircraft, bringing their ingenuity and their creativity to the floor of this facility, changing the way that th...
Do I want to see the defense department cut that much, no I don't, but I think the way to address that is by getting a compromise. We need to quit having the two sides of the room yelling at each other
It's a matter of character for our nation
I think deterrents for other contractors are really important, and it allows leverage to get better behavior out of contractors
