Chancellor Angela Merkel
WASHINGTON — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s rare appearance this morning in front of a Joint Session of Congress might resonate more locally than in many cities because of St. Louis’s strong German heritage.
In a speech this morning, she vowed that Germany would be a…
Kirk
WASHINGTON — Did somebody say government-run?
That’s the refrain sounding from just about every Republican in Washington, and the GOPers who would like to get to D.C., in response to the latest version of a Democratic health insurance plan, this one offered by…
WASHINGTON — Families USA, a national organization pushing for health-care reform, released a report this morning estimating the loss of health insurance due to rising unemployment.
Extrapolating from recent Census data, the group released reports for Missouri and Nebraska, concluding that the number of uninsured…
Nancy Pelosi
WASHINGTON — Congress is busy indeed these days tending to big-ticket matters, none bigger than health-care reform.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will make time on October’s first weekend to travel to St. Louis to help tend to the health of Rep. Russ…
Nancy Pelosi
WASHINGTON — In the blowback to the shifting health care debate, many progressives were wondering today what kind of reform would be left if Democrats back off the demand that any package contain a government entity to compete with insurance companies.
Some…
As you may know, my colleague, reporter Jake Wagman, was arrested Thursday night while covering protests at U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting on aging. Above is Wagman’s raw video of his arrest.
Wagman said…
Russ Carnahan
WASHINGTON — It’s no secret that Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are encountering a whole bunch of hurdles in the stretch run of revamping the health care system.
The insurance industry and its allies are responding with big bucks and sloganeering like…
Russ Carnahan
WASHINGTON — Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, said today that the big bankruptcy today would lead to a “stronger, leaner Chrysler.”
He hopes. He hopes, too, that the Fenton plant is part of the future of the new Chrysler-Fiat merger taking place.
“This is going to…
WASHINGTON — What’s the biggest issue confronting Congress in the months ahead?
No, not the economy. It’s health care, the most vexing issue for many families and a cost to Americans that rose last year at twice the rate of inflation. Again.
On…
WASHINGTON — As the Tuesday deadline approaches for the Obama administration to evaluate auto makers’ restructuring packages, Democrats from Missouri and Illinois are pushing to save 5,000 jobs at a Chrysler plant near St. Louis.
In a letter to Steven Rattner, a top adviser for President Obama’s…
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