WASHINGTON – The Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday voted to favorably report to the full Senate for confirmation two key nominations –those of Gen. Norton Schwartz to be chief of staff of the Air Force, and Gen. Duncan McNabb to replace Schwartz as commander of the U.S. Transportation Command…

WASHINGTON–The vice presidential guessing-game is getting more intense by the minute, as the clock ticks down toward the party’s respective nominating conventions.

Last week, the Washington Post ran a front-page story reporting that Sen. John McCain’s decision about his No. 2 pick could…

WASHINGTON–Springfield, Mo., seems an unlikely spot for the seeds of a Draft-McCaskill movement. But the GOP bastion is home to two Democratic activists who have started an online push for presidential hopeful Barack Obama to pick Sen. Claire McCaskill as his No. 2.

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WASHINGTON – Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,  has sent letters to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and to the head of the agency that oversees contractors for the Department of Defense regarding a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Wednesday that uncovers serious allegations of impropriety by agency…

WASHINGTON–Sen. Claire McCaskill has already made quite a splash in the Senate. She’s ruffled Democrats’ feathers, become a regular on cable TV, and even braved late-night pundit-spoof “The Colbert Report.”

But yesterday the Missouri Democrat reached new heights. She was a clue…

WASHINGTON_Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks a takeover of Anheuser-Busch by InBev is a bad idea.

“And I’m going to take every opportunity I can to mouth about it,” she said this afternoon with a look on her face that dared anyone to tell her to…

WASHINGTON–Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., has a “no” man. Her chief of staff, Sean Kennedy, a former longtime aide to ex-Rep. Richard Gephardt, is profiled in today’s issue of Politico, a Capitol Hill newspaper.The gist of the story: McCaskill is impulsive…

WASHINGTON–Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is a garrulous politician who loves to joke about how her mouth “gets me in trouble.” But she was keeping it shut tight (trying, anyway) this morning at a meeting with Missouri reporters when she was…

WASHINGTON - The Senate’s hectic schedule has prompted Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., to find a new way to hear her constituent’s concerns.

McCaskill held a video teleconference on proposed Medicaid cuts with Kansas City area health care providers Wednesday morning. It’s not…

WASHINGTON–Can’t make it to Washington to visit your U.S. senators? Well, you can at least check out their offices, which are mini-art galleries featuring Missouri works.

The artwork in Claire McCaskill’s Senate office is modern, loud, and splashy, featuring up-and-coming St. Louis…