Missouri voters will decide Nov. 6 whether they wish to be represented in the U.S. Senate by incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill or six-term Congressman Todd Akin. Sen. McCaskill is clearly the best choice. Read More »
Time and again, McCaskill has demonstrated an ability to work across the aisle. She has a good relationship with Missouri’s junior U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, a Springfield Republican. And, as her campaign ad famously points out, she’s right in the middle of 100 senators, sitting at No. 50 in the ideology ranking of the National Journal. Read More »
During the past six years, McCaskill has been a tireless opponent of waste and fraud. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, she has fought no-bid contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as domestically. Read More »
A vote for McCaskill returns to the Senate a leading moderate, known for bipartisan co-sponsorship of sensible legislation. And it protects Missouri and the nation from more votes by Akin against fair pay measures, emergency contraception after rape or incest, and federally subsidized school lunches for low-income children. Read More »
McCaskill, who has served in the Senate since 2007, has a firm grasp of policy detail. She can, and will at the drop of a hat, go into specific detail about cost overruns on Iraq and Afghanistan reconstruction contracts. Her hearings on those contracts have saved the nation millions, if not billions, of dollars. Read More »
Knocking on doors and making phone calls – that’s what will win this election, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) told campaign workers at a local office Tuesday night. Volunteers have already knocked on between 600,000 and 1 million doors and made more than 3 million phone calls, she said to cheers. Read More »
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) visited several cities in the Ozarks as part of her reelection campaign. With one month until the general election in November, her volunteers canvassed communities in Ozark, Nixa, and other cities in the area. Read More »
Akin, who has until Oct. 15 to report his quarterly fundraising figures, was in Washington on Wednesday for a series of fundraisers. But his campaign was again beset by remarks he made about abortion -- this time, as video of a 2008 speech Akin delivered on the House floor was recirculated online. Read More »
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday that controlling costs should not mean dramatic changes to Social Security and Medicare. The Missouri Democrat endorsed more financial means testing for Medicare and efforts to create incentives to control costs. Read More »
