JEFFERSON CITY – Over the past few days, U.S. Senators from across the nation have been forthcoming about how they will vote on the nomination of Samuel S. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. Here in Missouri, both Senator Jim Talent and Senator Kit Bond have already announced that they will vote in favor [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – This Monday, DNC Chairman Howard Dean made a stop in Kansas City where the East Coast liberal revealed to Missourians that Claire McCaskill opposes President Bush’s nomination of Samuel S. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to a Steve Penn column in today’s Kansas City Star, Dean made the announcement with [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Republican Party said today that Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill should look to her own behavior before lecturing others on ethics.
McCaskill recently attacked Senator Jim Talent while joining national Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in urging changes to federal lobbying rules.
"When Missourians examine McCaskill’s record on ethics, they will [...]

JEFFERSON CITY — Earlier this week, Governor Blunt delivered a critically acclaimed message that Missouri was back on the road to economic recovery just one year after he assumed the role of state executive. Volumes of economic data from the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Department of Labor?s Bureau of Labor Statistics and [...]

JEFFERSON CITY — Yesterday, the Washington Times broke a national story
disclosing that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid was among the “first tier”
of lawmakers to be investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice over
alleged influence peddling stemming from the Abramoff lobbying scandal. A
Justice Department source informed the paper that Reid was among five
confirmed lawmakers that [...]

JEFFERSON CITY — This evening, Missouri Democrats renounced working with Republicans this year, and instead enlisted one of their most partisan free-spending liberals to respond to Governor Blunt’s State of the State address. Just this past October, State Senator Maida Coleman unleashed a temper tantrum before a Democrat audience in Dexter in which she said [...]

JEFFERSON CITY – In 2005, State House Democrats offered Missourians nothing in the way of a budget or an agenda, and the state responded with significant and ongoing economic gains. Instead, House Democrats issued token opposition as Republicans enacted a sweeping agenda that balanced a lopsided budget without tax hikes, increased education funding by [...]