Rep. Ike Skelton

WASHINGTON — While the public option has dominated much of the health care debate, language in the House health-care bill about paying for abortion procedures is becoming a hot issue.

Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., and other anti-abortion rights House…

WASHINGTON — The pork industry, feeling the ill effects of H1N1 virus (don’t call it swine flu!), could be getting a second government bailout.

In a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, 63 members of Congress ask the federal government to…

JEFFERSON CITY — State Sen. Bill Stouffer, R-Napton, made official today his plans to run for Congress against incumbent Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri’s 4th District.

Stouffer will have to get past fellow Republican Vicky Hartzler in a primary for the right…

Biden with a worker at ABB in Jefferson City

JEFFERSON CITY – On his way to St. Louis, Joe Biden stopped at ABB factory in the state capital this afternoon, where he spoke about the importance of the middle class and maybe…

The satellite trucks are out and a small line is beginning to form to get into the state Capitol grounds to hear Gov. Sarah Palin speak in Jefferson City. The gates don’t open for another 40 minutes, so the crowd is…