06.22.2009 5:09 pm
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
Sen. Kit Bond
WASHINGTON — When it comes to giant regional projects underwritten by the government, it’s always best to have governors and senators singing from the same sheet music.
Essential, some would argue.
That’s been the case in recent years involving Missouri governors…
06.02.2009 1:51 pm
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
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…
03.04.2009 2:37 pm
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
McCaskill
WASHINGTON –Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., brought a dual attack on earmarks this afternoon: a resolution to cut down on the practice and a verbal lashing on the Senate floor of GOP leaders who embrace them.
McCaskill, poking a pencil at the…