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POLL: Should the Gov’t rescue the auto industry?

Congress is debating a $25 billion loan proposal to give automakers part of the $700 billion originally allotted for the mortgage and banking sectors. So what do you think?

Hey, what’s an extra $25,000,000,000?

The Financial Times reports The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $25 billion package of low-cost loans to help hard-pressed carmakers and their suppliers finance plant modernisation at a time of restricted access to public capital markets. The automotive loans are separate from the proposed $700bn bail-out for the banking sector, which is still being [...]

VIDEO: McCaskill on Equal Pay

On Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill joined several of her female colleagues in speaking on the Senate floor in favor of The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which clarifies laws related to pay discrimination.

Blunt, STL Politicos Going to China

Gov. Blunt will lead a political, civic and business contingency to China this week in an effort to boost economic relations with the business booming People's Republic.

CODEPINK at McCaskill’s

McCaskill Wants You Ready for the Digital World

It’s Feb. 17, 2009. You’re sitting in your chair, Big Gulp in one hand, the remote in the other ready to relax by watching nobodies warble their way on the American Idol, but when you turn your TV on something isn’t right. The signal isn’t going through. Did the network mess up? Did someone knock out a [...]

Net Neutrality Now!

Bond on Wiretapping

SPECIAL REPORT: ACORN Workers Claim Minimum Wage Funds Helping McCaskill

PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE VIDEO REPORT Several former and current workers demonstrated today in front of the St. Louis office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) demanding to be paid for work they performed. The workers also alleged that they were instructed to tell people to vote for a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate [...]