Rep. Ike Skelton
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Ike Skelton said today that he would apologize if Rep. Todd Akin felt offended by a crude remark Skelton made about him that was caught by a House floor microphone.
“During heated debate, unfortunate things are said.…
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $106 billion supplemental defense bill moments ago that included good news for Boeing St. Louis workers: $2.2 billion for eight C-17 cargo planes.
The funding matches the initial allotment in the bill for the C-17 line, which…
WASHINGTON — According to sources, a key House panel tomorrow likely will deliver good news to Boeing and the St. Louis workforce when it advances legislation to purchase more F/A-18 Super Hornets for the Navy.
Congressional approval of military aircraft used to be a rather…
Bond
WASHINGTON — With funding for one endangered Boeing plane likely secure at least for now, Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., is moving on, fighting reductions for an aircraft line that employs thousands in St. Louis.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates‘ 2010…
WASHINGTON — In good news for St. Louis, funding for Boeing’s C-17 cargo planes was restored a short time ago in the supplemental defense spending bill, Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond’s office is reporting.
The $2.2 billion for buying eight C-17s matches what the…
In a hearing yesterday, Sen. Claire McCaskill pushed for Defense Department funding of the F/A-18 and C-17 military airplanes, which are made by Boeing.
Sen. Kit Bond has also announced his support for the vessels.
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Bond
WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond said he is optimistic about the future of the C-17 line during a committee meeting this afternoon even though a Senate defense bill currently allocates no funding for the Boeing cargo planes.
The Senate Appropriations Committee met…
U.S. Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., sent out the release — but his Democratic counterpart, Sen. Claire McCaskill — is on the same side on this issue.
Both are involved in what Bond called “a bipartisan group of Senate and House members…
While elected officials here clamor to block InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, at least one political figure stands to gain from the deal: Cindy McCain. 
The wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain inherited a Budweiser distributorship in Arizona, and owns a…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain made a bit of news this afternoon when he carefully weighed in Wednesday on the General Accounting Office’s recommendation that the Air Force redo its decision-making process that gave a lucrative tanker contract…
