Luetkemeyer

Updated 12:41 p.m. with a response from Luetkemeyer.

Missouri U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer was one of several members of Congress to submit a statement on the health care bill using the exact language submitted by biotech lobbyists, the New York…

JEFFERSON CITY — U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, continued her campaign strategy of avoiding direct positions on legislation under debate in Congress yesterday.

Carnahan, the Secretary of State, was asked at a news conference…

Skelton

The region’s Congressional delegation voted mostly on party lines in this weekend’s House vote approving a health care reform package.

The exception: Missouri Democrat Ike Skelton, who was one of 39 members of his party to vote against the plan pushed…

If you missed the health care debate between on Wednesday between Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich in Cape Girardeau, you can still watch part of it online — but you’ll have to rely on your imagination for sound.

Per…

Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was on “This Week,” ABC’s signature Sunday morning news show.

Dean, left, and Gingrich

If you’re heading to the face-off between Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean next week in Cape Girardeau, leave the video cameras and audio recorders at home: The host does not want any YouTube moments.

Gingrich, who was speaker of the…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Democratic Party is questioning whether Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder inappropriately used state resources for a video Kinder posted on his campaign website.

In the video, posted on the Political Fix yesterday, Kinder criticizes Gov. Jay Nixon for…

JEFFERSON CITY — Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder suggests in a YouTube video he’s sent to supporters that if the national health care proposal being debated by Congress is approved, it would lead to closing prisons and…

The Shimkus shuffle?

No, he didn’t heckle the president, but Collinsville Republican U.S. Rep. John Shimkus has garnered some attention for his actions during the president’s health care address to Congress last night.

Shimkus walked out of the speech sometime before…

Wilson shouts at the president

A spontaneous outburst by a South Carolina congressman has unleashed a torrent of criticism.

During Barack Obama’s health care address to Congress last night, Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson shouted at the president, “You Lie!”

Wilson was reacting to a…