WASHINGTON – As Congress returns to session this week, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) is railing against the do-nothing Democrat-controlled Senate during events at home in Missouri, on the U.S. Senate floor, and during a press conference with Republican Senate leadership. "People in Missouri say to me 'you're not getting the work of the country done.' It is clearly right," said Blunt on the U.S. Senate floor today. "Here we're back in Washington, reminded by our friends on the other side, that really we're just here to hold votes that we've already had. With all of the critical challenges we haven't solved, we're talking about changing the Constitution. To suggest that there's a real debate going on in Washington, when this is all exactly what people are
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Senator calls for passage of legislation to close gender pay gap WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today joined fellow Senators in voting to advance the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Senate— legislation to help close the wage gap between women and men working equivalent jobs, costing women and their families $434,000 over their careers. “Ensuring women get equal pay for equal work is a battle my mom had to fight, and I’m determined not to leave that fight for my daughters to finish,” McCaskill said. “When a working woman—who is often the sole breadwinner or a significant contributor to her household—can still be paid less than her male colleagues for the same work, it does a great disservice to
Sep 11,[Publisher's note: this article will also appear in Thursday's newspaper.] UPDATE: The legislature voted at 11:55pm on Wednesday night; the Governor’s veto stands. Jefferson City is a strange place these days. Literally, things can turn upside down overnight. That's been the case with House Bill 1326 and Senate Bill 506. The bills, deemed the Mo Farm Bills, are supported by both the Missouri Cattle Producers and Missouri's Dairy Cattle industry. They were designed to strengthen Missouri's agricultural industry, which pretty much everyone agreed was a good thing. Just over two months ago these bills were also heavily supported in the state capitol. At the time of passage, the Missouri Cattlemen's Association's (MCA) wrote, “The MCA strongly supports the bipartisan 105
Sep 11,WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today released the following statement after President Obama's televised address on combating the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS): I'm glad to hear President Obama is assembling a strong, international coalition against ISIS and the very real threat these extremists pose. ISIS is a barbaric, inhumane terrorist group with the ability to communicate and travel globally, and our partners and allies around the world must be united in in combating an organization with such reach. But it's critical that we aim before we shoot, and so I was pleased tonight to hear the President's strategy to confront the threat of ISIS today and in the future.
Sep 11,WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), who serves as a member of the defense authorizing and appropriations committees, released the following statement tonight in response to President Barack Obama's speech on ISIL: "As the nation prepares to mark the thirteenth anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks on 9/11, we are reminded that the threat to our nation from terrorist groups like ISIL is still very real, and because of a new base in Syria and Iraq, that threat is potentially even more dangerous today. "While I believe the president has the authority to respond to this threat under congressional action from 2001, I also believe he could have benefited from coming to Congress with a more specific plan and
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