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Dems blast GOP for Trump defenses

String of GOP lawmakers accused of double standard after defending Trump’s at-home storage of classified docs

Salon

Senate leans toward Dec. 16 stopgap funding bill

Senate leaders appear to be on board with an interim spending measure that will keep the government operating until Dec. 16, which is also the preferred expiration date for House Democrats as they prep a continuing resolution for a vote as soon as next week.

Tribune News Service

GOP gives thumbs down to Biden's $47B emergency request

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress

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Senate leans toward Dec. 16 stopgap funding bill - Roll Call

Navigating the evenly divided Senate to get 60 votes to advance the bill will likely require talks on pandemic funding and other issues.

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Lynn Schmidt: An election system designed to excuse officials from responding to constituents

If an employee was completely unresponsive to her or his employer, the employee would likely not have a job for very long. Unfortunately, this is not the case in politics. Americans’ approval rating of the job Congress is doing has fallen to 18%, yet in the 2020 general election, 93%…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trump ups threats as legal case crumbles

The fact that Trump is leveraging his power to incite violence around these legal cases is a sign of weakness

Salon

Student loans highlight Democrats’ divide in tough election year

WASHINGTON — Tim Ryan, an Ohio Democrat running in one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races, said he opposed President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, underscoring divisions in the party and worries that the issue could be a vulnerability in the midterm elections.

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Bernie Sanders pans GOP response to Biden canceling some student loans

"I don't hear any of these Republicans squawking when we give massive tax breaks to billionaires."

Axios

Editorial: Republicans brave the risks to support same-sex marital rights

It took guts, perhaps along with a careful look at polling results, for 47 House Republicans to join their Democratic colleagues in approving a bill late last month to codify interstate recogniton of same-sex marriages. Rep. Ann Wagner was the sole Missouri Republican to support it. In these hyperpartisan times,…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Senate GOP’s sudden opposition to a good bill looked a lot like vengeance

How angry are some Republicans at what they see as betrayal by a centrist Democrat? Angry enough to betray sick military veterans, apparently. That’s the only rational explanation for last week’s sudden about-face by two dozen Senate Republicans, including Missouri’s Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, who opposed legislation they previously…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eric Schmitt wins Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri

Eric Schmitt won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri on August 2. According to the Missouri secretary of state’s office, Schmitt received 46% of the vote. Vicky Hartzler was second with 22% and Eric Greitens was third with 19%.

Ballotpedia

Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators

WASHINGTON — Appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year unveiled in the Senate last week contain more than 3,100 earmarks totaling almost $7.8 billion, with Sen. Richard C. Shelby once again the uncontested champion of what senators have rebranded “congressionally directed spending.”

Tribune News Service

Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators - Roll Call

Senate appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year contain more than 3,100 earmarks totaling almost $7.8 billion.

Roll Call

Independent John Wood turns in signatures to make ballot in Missouri’s US Senate race

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An independent candidate seeking to scramble Missouri’s hotly contested race to replace Republican Roy Blunt in the U.S. Senate said he collected more than 20,000 signatures to get his name on the Nov. 8 ballot.

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FEC data shows Schmitt leading in fundraising, Hartzler in spending in Missouri’s Republican U.S. Senate primary

Based on figures released this month by the Federal Election Commission, five candidates in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri have raised at least $1 million. Their fundraising totals were as follows:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Democrats seeking Missouri Senate seat look to stop red wave

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Three candidates have emerged as front-runners in a crowded field vying for the Democratic nomination to replace the retiring Republican Roy Blunt in the narrowly held U.S. Senate.

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Twenty-one candidates running in U.S. Senate primary in Missouri

Twenty-one candidates are running in the Republican Party primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri on August 2, 2022. Eric Greitens, Vicky Hartzler, and Eric Schmitt have led in media attention, endorsements, and polling.

Tribune News Service

Can a populist Missouri Democrat win back rural and working class voters?

GLADSTONE, Mo. — As a Democrat running for the Senate in Missouri, a state that his party has largely written off, Lucas Kunce is used to skeptics.

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Can a populist Missouri Democrat win back rural and working-class voters?

Marine veteran Lucas Kunce is running for Missouri's open Senate seat as a Democrat unafraid to go on conservative talk radio.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Missouri politics awash with firearms as Greitens, rivals provoke with ‘hardcore’ gun ads

As mass shootings grip the country with lethal regularity, Missouri politics is swimming in firearms.

The Independent UK

Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat

Eric Greitens resigned as Missouri governor in 2018 amid criminal charges and legislative investigations

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: The market won't fix obscene insulin prices. It's time for congressional action

Few issues within America’s dysfunctional health care system are more pressing than the astronomical price of insulin — access to which is, for millions of Americans, literally a matter of life or death. Congress is finally moving toward approving legislation that would partially address the problem. But passage will rely…

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The U.S. Capitol has named two rooms after female senators for the first time ever

Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Margaret Chase Smith couldn't wear pants or use the main bathroom during their tenures, when female senators were scarce. Rooms in the Capitol now honor their legacies.

Tribune News Service

Missouri Republicans ask Sen. Blunt to withdraw support from bipartisan gun deal

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., is drawing backlash from members of his own party in the state legislature after the retiring senator joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in support of a deal to address gun violence.

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Mental health becomes focal point of Senate gun framework - Roll Call

The Senate’s gun violence framework expands mental health treatment, but there's little connection between gun violence and mental illness.

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