KY3 News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Democratic candidate for the 8th Congressional district is challenging Rep. Jo Ann Emerson on her support of a Wall Street bailout bill that failed in the U.S. House Monday. "These Wall Street firms gambled in very high risk, and questionable financial gambling schemes in the mortgage industry and elsewhere. I cannot, and I believe that most of us who actually live here in the 8 th Congressional...
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNS BAILOUT BILL, AFTER HOUSE APPROVES IT 263-171 ** Mo. Delegation Splits 5-4 Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City was the only lawmaker to change his vote Republicans Roy Blunt and Jo Ann Emerson and Democrats Russ Carnahan and Ike Skelton supported the bill. Republicans Kenny Hulshof, Sam Graves and Todd Akin voted against it. Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay also...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... Reps. Blunt, R-Stafford, Mo.; Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis; Ike Skelton, D-Lexington, Mo.; and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, Mo.Voting no were Reps. Kenny Hulshof, R-Columbia, Mo.; Todd Akin, R-Town and Country; William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis; Jerry Costello, D-Belleville; and John Shimkus, R-Collinsville. None of the bistate area's lawmakers switched their votes from Monday's tally. Clay...
The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval on the Senate's revised $700 billion financial bailout bill Friday by a vote of 263-171.More than half of the Missouri's U.S. House members voted to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, including Democrats Russ Carnahan, Ike Skelton, Emanuel Cleaver and Republicans Roy Blunt and Jo Ann Emerson.Voting against the bill were...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... favor were Reps. Blunt, R-Stafford; Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis; Ike Skelton, D-Lexington; and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau.Voting no were Reps. Kenny Hulshof, R-Columbia; Todd Akin, R-Town and Country; William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis; Jerry Costello, D-Belleville; and John Shimkus, R-Collinsville. None of the bi-state area’s lawmakers switched their votes from Monday’s tally. After the...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
... like others said there were too many unanswered questions to say how she might vote. Said Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau: "I have 10 questions that I would like to have answered before I even take a position on it." She said she doesn't have "a clue" what the measure will look like by the time it hits the House floor, possibly by the week's end. But at least two Republicans — Akin,...
Missourinet (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
... Barack Obama will protect those rights ... and more. Our old friend Lloyd Smith - Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson's Chief of Staff - doubts Obama is a friend of gun owners' rights. Says Smith: "I think what Barack Obama is trying to do in rural radio is ... if you will buy that he's in favor of gun owner rights, then maybe you'll buy everything else he said ... and I can tell you that no one...
Missourinet (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
... her family, her friends and her record of accomplishment." Southeast Missouri Congressman Jo Ann Emerson is among the members of this group. The Plain Truth Squad links to the Wall Street Journal report that pro-Obama Democrats have "airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage" ... and the Truth Squad says the people are trying "to dig up...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... D-Va. Jimmy Webb, Marine Corps, Iraq.Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo. Perry Akin, Marine Corps, Iraq.Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo. Stepdaughter Jessica Gladney, Army, Iraq; Stepson Sam Gladney, Army, Iraq.Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Ca. Duncan D. Hunter, Marine Corps, Iraq.Rep. John Kline, R-Minn. Dan Kline, Army, Iraq and Afghanistan.Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo. Two sons in military. Citing privacy concerns, Skelton's...
Room Eight (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Senators: Lisa Murkowski Alaska (?!?); Olympia Snowe , Maine; Susan Collins , Maine; Elizabeth Dole North Carolina; Kay Bailey Hutchison , Texas Governors: Oline Walker, Utah; Linda Lingle, Hawaii, M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut Members of the House: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Florida; Deborah Pryce , Ohio; Barbara Cubin , Wyoming; Sue Myrick North Carolina; Jo Ann Emerson , Missouri; Kay Granger , Texas;...
