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Sierra Club Claims This Will Put An End To Coal Fired Power Plants Missouri #6 in Nation in Coal Use, #23 in Coal Production As the Supreme Court continues to hear the oral arguments against President Obama and Claire McCaskill’s intrusive healthcare law, today the Obama Administration issued job-killing regulations on the coal industry, which could cease production of any new coal plants, killing thousands of jobs and raising energy rates. McCaskill had an opportunity to reign in these unelected bureaucrats and their mandates, but rather than standing up for Missouri, she decided to support the agenda of extreme environmentalists. Despite the fact Missouri is No. 6 in the nation in coal use, the Sierra Club trumpeted these new regulations because they claim it will ultimately put an end to coal fired power plants. As The Hill reports: The Environmental Protection Agency proposed first-of-their-kind regulations Tuesday to limit greenhouse gas…

NRSC Launches New Web Video Two years ago today – with the help of Senator Claire McCaskill who voted for Barack Obama’s job-killing healthcare bill – President Obama signed his $1.76 trillion healthcare bill into law.  The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today released a web video reminding Missourians of the broken promises from ObamaCare. Senator McCaskill specifically promised the healthcare bill would reduce healthcare costs for millions of people, but since this legislation has been signed into law, costs have risen by 9 percent and the average premium has risen by $1,300.  Meanwhile, McCaskill and her fellow Democrats claimed the healthcare bill would cost $940 billion, but recently the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report that found ObamaCare would actually cost $1.76 trillion.        Click The Screenshot Below To View The NRSC’s New Web Video Notably, this bill is also hurting businesses throughout Missouri. “Claire McCaskill…

WITH TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY APPROACHING, THE CONSEQUENCES OF CLAIRE MCCASKILL’S HEALTHCARE LAW When liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill made President Barack Obama’s intrusive healthcare bill the law of the land, we knew it would force every Missourian to purchase health insurance, but now we are learning that it will give 15 unelected bureaucrats the power to decide which healthcare decisions are best for Missourians.    In fact, the American Hospital Association, along with over 70 medical groups warned McCaskill and her fellow Democrats that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) could limit seniors’ access to Medicare and even the infrastructure for the entire healthcare system.  Additionally, it’s been reported that the IPAB’s true end game is to arbitrarily control the price of healthcare and decide what type of medical treatments patients in Missouri can receive.  As the Wall Street Journal reports: Public opposition to the Affordable Care Act has grown in…

Claire McCaskill’s Healthcare Law Is Killing Jobs In Missouri  When liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill voted for President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, it didn’t just cut $550 billion from Medicare but also included a slew of job-killing taxes that are crushing small businesses across the Show Me State and America. The healthcare law contains $500 billion in new taxes, including a harmful tax on the medical device community – that will hit over 1,000 medical device companies in Missouri – and is estimated to kill 45,000 jobs nationwide.  Further, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated the healthcare law will kill 800,000 jobs nationwide. QUESTION: “In your estimation, the health care law would reduce employment by 800,000…” DOUGLAS ELMENDORF, CBO Director: “Yes… there would be a reduction of 800,000 workers.” (U.S. House Of Representatives, Budget Committee, Hearing, 2/10/11) QUESTION: “The last question is, it’s been argued and was argued here…

Premiums Have Increased Claire McCaskill Claimed ObamaCare Would Lower Costs When liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill voted for President Barack Obama’s job-killing healthcare law she specifically promised the legislation would lower health care costs, but nearly two years later families are now paying more money for their health insurance.  FactCheck.org has found that ObamaCare has made healthcare slightly less affordable and it’s causing premiums to go up – not down, as McCaskill and her fellow Democrats claimed it would.  Additionally, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in 2011 the average healthcare premium climbed from $13,770 to $15,073, which amounts to a 9 percent increase. As the New York Times reports:  “The cost of health insurance for many Americans this year climbed more sharply than in previous years, outstripping any growth in workers’ wages and adding more uncertainty about the pace of rising medical costs.   A new study by the Kaiser…

When will McCaskill end the hypocrisy and open the books? Nearly one year to the day of admitting she failed to pay personal property taxes on the plane she used for political purposes and billed taxpayers for, Claire McCaskill is shamelessly calling for an Inspector General for the U.S. Senate. According to The State Column, “As part of her broader effort to “clean up Congress”, McCaskill is honoring Sunshine Week by renewing her efforts to create an Inspector General for the U.S. Senate, to investigate, audit, and review Senate operations.” Ironically, this hypocritical call for an Inspector General comes even though McCaskill still refuses to disclose information about the 88 other flights for which taxpayers were billed or release the tax returns for the two companies affiliated with the private plane in order to verify her claim that neither she nor her family profited from the arrangement. “It’s classic Chameleon…

Healthcare Costs Will Increase Claire McCaskill Claimed ObamaCare Would Lower The Cost Of Healthcare When liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill cast one of the deciding votes for Barack Obama’s job-killing healthcare law, she promised the legislation would lower healthcare costs for families in Missouri, but instead these costs have skyrocketed.    Since this legislation has been signed into law, healthcare costs have risen by 9 percent and the average Missourian is now paying $132 more for health insurance.  Additionally, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently found that the healthcare law will now cost $2.6 trillion, twice as much as what McCaskill and her fellow Democrats promised it would cost.  “Claire McCaskill promised that ObamaCare would lower healthcare costs, but due to her burdensome law, Missourians will now have to pay an additional $132 for health insurance,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Lance Trover.  “This is another reminder…

ObamaCare Gave The Federal Government The Power To Decide What’s Best For Missourians Nearly two years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill supported Barack Obama’s job-killing healthcare bill which gave the federal government the power to decide what type of healthcare services that employers, including religious institutions in Missouri, had to pay for, even if it violated their own personal moral beliefs. This intrusive healthcare law is a clear violation of religious freedom as it forces religious institutions and individuals to choose between violating the law and violating their faith, which McCaskill continues to support.  Her position is completely out of step with the Catholic Conference of Missouri, the Archbishop of St. Louis, and most Missourians. “Time and again when it comes to issues of more government intrusion into our everyday lives – be it the stimulus, ObamaCare, or cap-and-trade – Senator McCaskill chooses President Obama’s side,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee…

NRSC Launches New Video Highlighting The Failed Promises & Economic Agenda Of Washington Democrats Three years ago today, despite an already skyrocketing federal debt, President Barack Obama – with the help of liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill – rammed their $825 billion stimulus spending bill into law promising Americans that it would create millions of news jobs In fact, McCaskill specifically promised the stimulus would create jobs, but since the legislation was signed into law, 428,000 jobs have been lost because the Obama Administration was determined to spend their way out of this economic crisis instead of targeting the legislation to assist small business owners who are the true job creators of this country. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Notably, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report just yesterday that found that the rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009,…

Republicans Point To Mile-Wide Gap Between McCaskill’s 2006 Rhetoric Versus 2012 Record Despite campaigning on the promise of fiscal responsibility, President Obama and Senate Democrats including Missouri’s Claire McCaskill, have added an additional $4.7 trillion to the national debt in just the last three years – bringing America’s total debt to over $15.3 trillion.  Yet, instead of reversing course on their failed economic policies, President Obama and Claire McCaskill are doubling-down on their call for higher taxes, more Washington spending and an even bigger federal debt. The President today introduced his annual budget which includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes, much of which has previously been endorsed by Senator McCaskill, while ensuring a fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.  What’s worse – Senator McCaskill and her fellow Senate Democrats have said they do not even intend to pass a budget for the third straight year, clearly recognizing the political peril…