Tag: Claire McCaskill

‘I’ve got news for Mitch McConnell — he broke the Senate’: Ex-senator kills ’empty threat’ from GOP leader

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor Tuesday to claim that if Democrats change the filibuster now that they are in charge, it would be a “scorched Earth” move. The problem with the claim, according to one former senator, is that McConnell is the one who broke the senate to begin with.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Brian Williams, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said that McConnell’s threats at this point are empty because there’s nothing worse that he can do whether in or out of power. 

“Well, that’s what he’s trying to do, but I’ve got news for Mitch McConnell: he kind of broke the Senate,” she said. “He’s the one that has used the rules in a way they were never intended to be used. And he has done it with gleeful abandon over and over and over again. The senate has become broken. The regular order is gone. There’s not debate. There are no amendments. It is just a mere shadow of what it used to be. So, the question is, should you have to stand up and own your obstructionism?” Continue reading.

Claire McCaskill, a vulnerable Democrat running for reelection, targeted in hacking attempt by Russian spies

The following article by Ellen Nakashima was posted on the Washington Post website July 26, 2018:

Sen. McCaskill asks a question during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on June 20, 2018. McCaskill says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin, AP

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, one of the most vulnerable Democrats running for reelection this year, was targeted by Russian government hackers who sought but failed to compromise her Senate computer network.

“Russia continues to engage in cyber warfare against our democracy,” McCaskill said in a press release Thursday evening. “While this attack was not successful, it is outrageous that they think they can get away with this. I will not be intimidated. I’ve said it before and I will say it again, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is a thug and a bully.”

The hackers, who belong to Russia’s military spy agency GRU, targeted two other candidates running in the midterms, according to a Microsoft executive, Tom Burt, who spoke at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado last week. He did not identify the candidates. None were compromised, he said.

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