Ike Skelton News

The political fallout from Thursdays bloodletting at City Hall?A whole host of possibilities loom.

It's time for change in the 4th Congressional District, according to Vicky Hartzler, and she wants to be the agent of that change.

The chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Representative Ike Skelton, cast doubt on Friday about the Obama administration's decision to try the Sept.

No debate during the first year in office for President Barack Obama has dominated the news coming out of our nation's capitol like that on health care.

Democratic officials portrayed the Republican Party's squabble in New York's special House election as an intolerant right-wing purge of liberal Republicans.

Character was the focus as Scouting saluted the military yesterday. U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri told about 500 people from Boy Scouts' National Capital Area Council that the values of Boy Scouts and the military are constant and that both organizations seek to serve something greater than themselves.

The afternoon grew late on November 5th when House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer finally emerged from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi .

U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton was among 39 Democrats to vote against the Democratic-written health care bill Saturday.

President Obama was, if nothing else, an active commander in chief last week. Before and after Wednesday's Veterans Day holiday, military issues took center stage on the White House agenda.

"Give 'em hell" reads the red battle flag of the USS Harry S. Truman, a replica of which is draped on the wall of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton's Washington office.

A bipartisan group of congressmen has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to expedite the process for the ratification of a free trade deal with Korea pending for more than two years.

Marshall fourth graders sing during Veterans Day services on the south side of the Saline County Courthouse Wednesday, Nov.

The Leonard Wood Institute, announced last week it has awarded more than $18 million in funding for research and development projects that will be carried out over the next year to benefit the U.S. Army.

Congress is divided about how - and even whether - to move forward with independent investigations of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

The White House takes the day from this Sunday's television talk shows, as Democratic and Republican lawmakers fill in to discuss the dire new unemployment report, the tragic shootings at Fort Hood, and if it goes off as planned the House vote this weekend on health care reform legislation.

Dem Reps. Matheson, Skelton, and Kosmas are facing serious blowback from the left for voting 'no.' Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO Democrats who thought a vote against the sweeping health care package would inoculate them from political attack are facing serious blowback from angry constituents and interest groups on the left - fierce ...

Rachel Maddow runs down the list for us of C-Street family members who also voted for Bart Stupak's anti-abortion amendment yesterday.

As the 2010 campaign cycle begins in earnest, the central question in the House of Representatives is how many seats will Republicans win ? Few political observers or elected officials doubt that an energized GOP has a headwind at its back.

By Julie Ardery and Bill Bishop, DailyYonder.com , Guest Writer, 11-09-09 39 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed the Democrat-sponsored bill to change the nation's health insurance system.

The 39 Democrats who voted against passage of the House health care reform bill will be as indelibly remembered politically as the 29 Senate Democrats who foolishly voted in 2002 to support the Iraq War.