Claire McCaskill News Archives

One of President Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate said on Sunday that she believed health care reform will pass this year and it will allow for an "opportunity" for a public plan for insurance coverage.

I've got a little bald spot on the side of my head because I've been scratching my head since I read my colleague's blog about assisted acquisition services.

With the chiefs of three top government agencies testifying on the H1N1 influenza strain in front of a Senate committee today, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill had an opportunity to ask about tracking and awareness efforts related to H1N1 flu and how consumers are being protected from fraud.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed concerns about the Obama administration's new contracting guidance during a hearing on Wednesday.

Meet the Press : Sen. John Cornyn ; Sen. Charles Schumer ; Erin Burnett ; Andrew Ross Sorkin ; Roundtable : Jane Mayer , Joe Scarborough , Former Bush Adviser Dan Senor and Tavis Smiley .

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., one of the chief congressional critics of the recent problems at the Defense Contract Audit Agency has released a statement about the reassignment of agency Director April Stephenson.

The Senate will consider several versions of a government-run public health insurance option in the chamber's upcoming debate on a health care bill, a Democratic senator predicted Sunday.

Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Charles Schumer on 'Meet The Press' on Sunday. Democrats are closing in on Senate passage of sweeping health care reform that contains some form of a public option, Sen.

In this May 5, 2009 file photo, newscaster Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is poised to proceed with plans to introduce a Senate health care bill with a public health insurance option that would allow states to opt out, a senior aide to Reid told CNN on Sunday.

CBS's 'Face the Nation' interviews Sens. John McCain ; 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' interviews Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai; and Sen.

Federal financial aid programs are too complicated and often leave students and parents under served.

The Missouri Congressional Delegation has introduced a resolution to honor the sacrifices made by our Armed Forces and in support of our military families.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska a ' Alaska Native corporations will find out next week how the federal government plans to change contracting procedures.

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 6:02 a.m. The mother of condemned Missouri inmate Reginald Clemons will be among the speakers at a panel discussion in St.

Negotiations on healthcare reform legislation have reached a stage that's disconcertingly common on Capitol Hill -- one with few visible signs of actual progress, plenty of reassurances from the people involved that everything is going just fine, and a lot of waiting around for everyone else.

By AshEl Eldridge, Educator - ACE . Cross-posted from the ACE Blog . I just returned from Missouri Power Shift and I can report that the movement for clean energy, green jobs and climate justice is alive and well amongst the students of the "Show Me State." Missouri, though home of the headquarters of Peabody Coal, is also is home to Rockport, MO - ...

Betty Anne McCaskill watches as her daughter Claire McCaskill addresses the audience.

In today's Post-Dispatch : Ethical handling, though, hardly has been the hallmark of the some in reverse mortgage lending industry.

Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., continues to hold up the vote on Martha Johnson's nomination to lead the General Services Administration.

Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:58 p.m. Completely updated at 5:58 p.m. CDT Updated at 5:58 p.m. CDT -A Boy was apparently hiding in a cardboard box in the garage attic.

Peter H. Bell, president of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, was the soul of reason when he appeared at a hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging last summer at the Ochs Senior Center in University City.

The federal government is providing nearly $38 million in disaster aid for ice storms that hit southeast Missouri in January.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., wrote this month that her "head about to pop off" because of a report on failures and downright misdeeds at the Defense Contracting Auditing Agency.

Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:44am EDT - Healthcare reform supporters Bill Drummond and Amrita Burdick display their signs by a stack of others that were not allowed into the healthcare forum by Sen.

Brett Wiley, a field organizer for the Sierra Student Coalition, has been talking up the Missouri Power Shift Summit, encouraging young people to attend.

Andrew Wesselmann, right, and Troy Comley lie on the ground behind police tape signifying casualties of the current health care system during a protest Tuesday on the sidewalk in front of the Blue Cross Blue Shield office at Nifong and Forum boulevards.

Late Wednesday night, Sen. Ben Nelson's office was littered with doctored, deliberately embarrassing photos of the Nebraska senator.

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Many of the same unfair and deceptive practices that gave rise to the subprime mortgage boom and ultimately led to an unprecedented financial failure have begun to appear in the growing market for reverse mortgages, according to a consumer advocacy group.

Reverse mortgages are not necessarily a bad idea for homeowners 62 or older who want to cash out decades' worth of equity.

Consumer advocates say a growing number of older homeowners and a new crop of eager lenders could steer the reverse mortgage industry down the same financial course that toppled the subprime mortgage market and left taxpayers footing the bill.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, is citing a report suggesting reverse mortgages can be risky for seniors while pushing for greater industry regulations.

Oct 5 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Sure. It's easy for one of the richest and most powerful men in the world to call for "the rich" to pay more in taxes, and certainly the Democrats love using Buffet and his tax demands as propaganda for their soak-the-rich fiscal policies, but let's keep in mind that by "the rich" the ...

South Side Chicago ministers James L. Demus III, Leslie Sanders and Roosevelt Watkins III -- $15,000 each as community organizers Billboards simply stating that Web site and the name Economic Freedom Alliance have been popping up around the Fox Valley.

Some members of Congress are so disturbed by failures and malfeasance described in a recent government report that they are considering removing the agency that audits hundreds of billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts from Pentagon supervision.

The head of the Senate contracting oversight subcommittee introduced legislation on Thursday that would provide whistleblower rights to employees of companies receiving government contracts.

In recent years, Mark Rickerson, of St. Charles, has fumed as U.S. spending ballooned, the federal deficit skyrocketed and government intervened in private industry.

The controversial anti-gay group, Westbrook Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, will be protesting in Columbia today.

An award could come as early as October for a contract to consolidate eight General Services Admnistration acqusition-related databases into a single platform.