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Is money from health industries influencing Missouri representatives in the vote for health care reform? It's been sixty years its been since President Harry Truman became the first president to attempt to reform the health care system.

Tommy Sowers, the Iraq war veteran mounting the first well-funded challenge to U.S. Rep.

Washington -- Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton will stand with Republicans in opposing a historic $1.1 trillion health care bill that Democrats plan to debate Saturday.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Chain pharmacy opposition to new drug importation proposals is growing in urgency, as momentum builds in Congress for legislation that would allow Americans to directly import pharmaceuticals from Canada and other countries for their own use.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging a vote on her health care bill Saturday in the hopes of forcing to a conclusion a debate that's been raging for most of the year.

Mike McCoy photo The cut in bridge repair funding leaves some Stoddard County bridges that are in disrepair without any hope for replacement in the near future.

Perry County's representative in Congress Jo Ann Emerson today criticized H.R. 3962, the closed-door version of health care reform under consideration in the House of Representatives, saying it is too difficult for most Americans to understand the changes being proposed to the health care system.

As the health care debate continues in Washington, D.C., Cape Girardeau will get some perspective from two former politicians.

In late September, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson took two hours from her Washington, D.C., schedule to spend some quality time with other women at a Georgetown spa.

The U-S Senate failed to pass an extension to the 2005 federal highway bill by the end of September, forcing over 200-million-dollars to be recalled from Missouri transportation projects.

A truck passes over Flora Creek on County Road 634 north Friday morning, October 23, 2009, in eastern Cape Girardeau county.

In the Kansas Senate race, GOP Rep. Todd Tiahrt's record over eight House terms has earned him endorsements from a constellation of conservative stars, ranging from the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins to former Education Secretary Bill Bennett to anti-abortion activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Oct. 13 was an unusual day for U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's re-election team. That's the day Democratic challenger Tommy Sowers, a former U.S. Army major now teaching at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo., reported he had raised more than $200,000 for his campaign in a little more than a month.

If early money is an indication, Missouri could have competitive races for nearly half of its U.S. House seats next year.

U.S. Senator Kit Bond Thursday announced that he secured $243 million for clean energy, flood protection, and river modernization projects in Missouri in the conference report to the fiscal year 2010 energy and water spending bill.

Democrats are seeking momentum and votes -- from both Democrats and Republicans -- as leaders work to combine the two versions of reform approved by Senate committees.

Rep. Mike Castle is among other Republicans who are leaving the possibility open to voting on the final health care bill.

Today Tommy Sowers announced that his campaign will report a record $204,510 in campaign contributions for its first quarterly filing on 10/15. A Democratic candidate for Missouri's 8th Congressional District, Sowers officially entered the race just 21 days before the end of the third quarter.

Politically favorable redistricting, 24-hour news channels and work and culture change have led to a more bitter, partisan divide in Congress, two members of the federal legislature told a Union University crowd Monday night.

A U.S. representative from Tennessee was joined by another lawmaker from across the aisle in Jackson Monday to discuss bipartisanship.