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Submitted by .Sean (Fired Up! Missouri)

Early this morning (01:08 AM), Senate Democrats and independents approved a procedural cloture motion by a 60-40 vote.  Senators voted m. while seated at their desks, a rarely used practice implemented only for historic votes.

There are two more procedural votes scheduled on the bill this week, and the final vote is currently slated for 7pm. Christmas Eve. Then, of course, Senate and House negotiators will have to meld their bills together for a final compromise.

Sen. McCaskill vote Yea, Sen. Bond voted Nay.

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Senator Bond continues to fight against cap-and-trade legislation that threatens Missouri families and farmers with higher energy prices and job losses. The bill proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) sets even stricter emissions targets than the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. The Sena te bill also removes  provisions that require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be fair to ethanol producers and to protect energy-intensive manufacturing jobs in the United States that are exposed to unfair competition in China, an unsettling fact as experts say that the Waxman-Markey bill alone will eliminate 2.4 million net U.S. jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

by Sean (Fired Up! Missouri)

Cynthia Davis laments the loss of “freedom, property and economic security” in her most recent “Capitol Report,” citing three specific examples of freedom-destroying developments in American history: the creation of the Federal Reserve; the passage of the 16th Amendment to allow a federal income tax; and the passage of the 17th Amendment to allow direct elections of U.S. Senators.

That’s right: Cynthia Davis has a problem with allowing citizens to vote for their Senators, instead of allowing state legislatures to select them for the voters.

The U.S. Constitution’s 17th Amendment prohibited state legislatures from selecting their national senators. This reduced accountability and loyalty to the states from the U.S. Senators to the states.

Davis leaves unexplained how Sens. Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill are less loyal and accountable to Missouri, now that they’re elected and held accountable by actual voters.  Read the rest of this entry »