by Alisa Nelson | Feb 13, 2021 | News, Politics / Govt
The U.S. Senate has wrapped up today the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump by voting 57-43 to acquit him. The trial required 67 guilty votes to convict Trump. Missouri U.S. Senators Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, both Republicans, voted to clear Trump. An...
by Ashley Byrd | Apr 22, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri’s Senator Roy Blunt says Missouri hospitals will get their part of another $50 billion set aside from CARES Act funding this week. This week’s funding is based on past billing experience. “We’re trying to make this easy, not hard, and...
by Ashley Byrd | Oct 2, 2019 | Business, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation
A creatively engineered funding plan of federal, state, local and borrowing has assured that a critical bridge in Missouri will be replaced, instead of repaired. This summer, the Missouri Department of Transportation got $81 million of a federal infrastructure (INFRA)...
by Ashley Byrd | Mar 29, 2019 | News, Transportation, Weather
-Brent Martin contributed to this report. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt surveyed flood damage in Atchison and Holt Counties Friday and like, the governor, took aim at the way the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages its rivers and reservoirs. “For more than 15 years, I...
by Jessica Machetta | Jan 9, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The U.S. Senate has not been able to compromise on a plan to extend unemployment benefits, and Missouri’s two senators stand on opposite sides of the issue. A vote stalled in the Senate yesterday over unemployment benefits — Democrats wanted a one-year...
