Bob Priddy

Missourinet News Director, historian, journalist, author and big fan of fast cars.

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On Across Our Wide Missouri today: The tragic story of Missouri's Salt King. See Missourinet.com, click on AOWM link.

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Today on Across Our Wide Missouri: The NE Mo town created by a SE Mo earthquake. Go to Missourinet.com...then link

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Shoemyer withdraws motion.

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Sen.Jolie Justus tries to table. under senate rule.Fails. Shoemyer cites different rule, makes same motion Point of Order raised on motion.

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Monitoring Senate debate from Missourinet office today; Steve Walsh with Prez, other events make capitol trip today impossible.

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Long day...typing fingers tired. Make that name "Lembke." Still a Republican. Still from St. Louis.

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Opponents well-armed, prepared to talk bill to death. Sponsor Jim Limbke (R-St. Louis) talks until mid-afternoon. First opponents up now.

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Proposal limits influence of lawyers in selection of judges to Supreme and other state appeals courts; some metro area lower courts.

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Correcton: Senate starts talking about revision. Not house.

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House opens likely protracted debate on HJR10--constitutional amendment changing non paritsan court plan.

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Bond: Obama release of CIA memos harms national security, weakens intelligence-gathering, lowers CIA morale.

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Bond: Obama's plan to close Gitmo (hate that abbrev.) bad, with no backup plan for disbursing inmates, or holding newly arrested terrorists

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Bond, vice-chairman of senate intelligence commtitee, says Obama has some high points,but low points outweigh them.

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Sen. Bond, speaking in US Senate, says Obama administration gets failing grade for national security.

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"We're about to confirm a fighter," says McCaskill.

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McCaskill says there have been distortions about Sebelius' record; that she will work with GOP and Dems to reach common ground.

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McCaskill: praises Sebelius, a Democrat, worked well enough with GOP as Governor of Kansas that she was elected to 2nd term.

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McCaskill says Sebelius is willing to take on "calcified siloes of profit in our healthcare system."

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Mccaskill on Senate Floor urging confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius for Secy of HHS,. Calls her "extraordinarily industrious."

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It's SB450 if you're keeping score. A bill not getting a committee hearing until now is a corpse unless spnsor can add to another bill.