Women In Politics

Pssst, Over to You
Senators need to debate, confirm or reject the 52 nominees on whom secret holds have been placed. The games need to stop.

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Goverment begins feasibility study of new federal building in downtown KC
The federal government has begun a feasibility study for a downtown office building that likely would open in 2018 — a dozen years after it was first proposed.

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A new wind blowing on Capitol Hill?
WASHINGTON – Just when the Senate was poised to change one of those arcane rules that let even a single senator paralyze the entire chamber, a single senator stood up and invoked another one of those rules to derail the whole thing.

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Local News
When Jessica Stahl sent her daughter to summer school last year, it was as much about easing mom’s kindergarten jitters as her daughter’s. “I’ve never been a school parent,” Stahl said Wednesday while waiting to pick up her six-year-old daughter from Columbia Elementary School.

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Recycling center opens near Warrenton
Several area residents were waiting to drop off recyclables when the East Central Missouri Recycling Center opened its doors April 22.

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KBR to Get $568 Million Army Order as U.S. Joins Suit (Update1)
May 5 (Bloomberg) — KBR Inc., the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq, was picked for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, according to Army officials.

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A Push To End Secret Holds On Obama Nominees
President Obama’s executive and judicial nominees have, for the most part, sailed through committee hearings, only to then hit a dead end in the Senate. There, lawmakers are able to block them, and do so anonymously. Democrats are now demanding a ban on this practice.

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WHS JAYVEE BASEBALL
The young Wolverine baseball team traveled to St. Vincent last week to compete in their fourth game of the season. Although the Wolverines played a hard-fought, tough seven innings, they eventually lost 7-6 on a walk-off hit by the Mustangs.

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INSIDE WASHINGTON: No holds barred in Senate
Nearly 100 people are sitting on their hands, prevented from filling jobs as judges, diplomats and top government officials, because of an arcane Senate custom that allows a single lawmaker, often

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KBR to Get $568 Million Army Order as U.S. Joins Suit (Update2)
KBR Inc., the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq, was picked for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011 for military support services in Iraq, according to Army officials.

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