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...years after losing the 2000 presidential race to George W. Bush. Vulnerable Senate candidates - among them Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana - are staying away, and Democratic leaders in Washington have urged House...
...no longer necessary for the formerly obscure Missouri congressman, Todd Akin, who had hoped to snatch Democrat Claire McCaskill's Senate seat. For those who didn't pay their cable bill, Akin recently assured Americans that in cases of...
...later.Another suggestion is that Americans just don't understand the value of first-class mail. Thus Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., proposes an advertising campaign extolling the benefits of letter-writing, as if that will put a...
...dramatic skills. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, chief Democratic warrior, engaged in some play-acting with Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., pretending to puzzle over why Senate Republicans don't want to take up the payroll-tax bill passed...
...favor, but the measure failed to get the necessary extra votes required for passage. Earlier this month, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., introduced a bill that would require that all new gas pumps compensate for temperature and that existing...
...the vast bulk of investigative and public-interest reporting. Kerry and several other senators, particularly Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said they saw Web sites and amateur reporters providing information, but not of the quantity or quality...
...their constituents during this August congressional recess. The cameras were watching as Sens. Arlen Specter and Claire McCaskill were harangued on Tuesday. What doesn't make the news is what the reaction is among the larger population of voters...
...outrage over filibuster use and rigging of the rules. Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley, Ore., Tom Udall, N.M., Claire McCaskill, Mo., and Michael Bennet, Colo., have spent time in recent months drumming up support for reform not just of...