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So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

Claire McCaskill

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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.
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