Claire McCaskill

Maryland enrollment soars in federal phone program

2013-05-07 14:36:19

Enrollment in a controversial program that provides free cell phone service to low-income families has increased faster in Maryland than any other state in the nation, jumping nearly 90-fold since 2008 — renewing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its...

Powerful poison Ricin found in letter sent to U.S. senator

2013-04-16 17:30:00

WASHINGTON -- An envelope laced with the lethal poison Ricin and addressed to a U.S. senator was found at a Maryland mail processing facility, officials said Tuesday. The envelope, intended for the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), was discovered...

Female vs. male senators

2013-01-12 00:00:00

As the son of a woman, the husband of a woman and the father of daughters and granddaughters, I celebrate the record number of females who are now United States senators. However, I do see some differences in the way these and other women are treated,...

O'Malley bashes Republicans on jobs on CNN

2012-09-30 06:41:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley returned to the national stage Sunday after a Democratic National Convention speech that received tepid reviews, facing off with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt over job creation and women's issues on CNN. Questioned by CNN's Candy Crowley,...

Women flex muscle at the polls

2012-11-07 12:22:00

Congratulations, ladies. You kept the barbarians from the gate. On Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously said that a woman's reproductive system shuts down during "legitimate rape" and prevents conception, lost by 15 points to incumbent Sen....

Mikulski touts role of women in Congress

2012-09-05 17:03:00

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the self-styled dean of the Democratic women in Congress, urged support of female candidates in an address to her party's national convention Wednesday that came as both presidential campaigns sought to court women voters. As...

The decline of party power

2012-08-24 00:00:00

No recent development has underlined the decline of political party clout more than beleaguered Senate Republican nominee Todd Akin's refusal to accede to GOP leadership demands that he withdraw from his race against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of...

Akin's rape comments elicit anger in Md., U.S.

2012-08-20 16:07:00

Furor surged in Maryland and across the country Monday over a Missouri congressman's comment that he opposes abortion in most cases of rape because women rarely become pregnant during a "legitimate rape." Though Rep. Todd Akin, a Republican who is...

Is Akin really out of the Republican mainstream?

2012-08-21 11:54:00

Missouri is a long way from Maryland, so residents can be forgiven for never having heard of Rep. Todd Akin prior to this week. But when the socially conservative Republican Senate candidate suggested that the victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get...

Akin rape comments 'offensive and wrong,' Bartlett says

2012-08-21 14:58:00

Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett repudiated fellow Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s comments on rape Tuesday, while his campaign manager called an attempt by Maryland Democrats to tie Bartlett to the controversy “disgusting.” Akin, the GOP nominee...

Bartlett to skip GOP convention

2012-07-22 13:24:00

Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett has become the latest incumbent in Congress to announce he will skip his party's national convention this year to spend time campaigning for reelection, drawing a contrast with other state Republicans as well as his Democratic...

Attachment legislating: Corporate cash and the GOP

2012-05-15 10:08:00

If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they...

Missori Senate candidate Todd Akin?s claim that some biological mechanism prevented women who are victims of ?legtimate rape? from becoming pregnant helped propel Democrat Claire McCaskill to re-election.

2012-11-06 00:00:00