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Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.
Claire McCaskill
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Claire McCaskill
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 24
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Missouri
Claire Conner McCaskill
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Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.
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For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.
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I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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I've tried for years to get Republicans to help us fix some of the mistakes that we made in the Affordable Care Act. There are things we can do to shore up the exchanges, to make those pools healthier, to bring down costs. I would like to see us work together on that.
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If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.
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I think it's important that we show up. I think it's important that we communicate directly with all those working people.
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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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My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.
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I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?
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I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.
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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.
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I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
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I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
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It's very hard from a distance to figure out who has lost their minds. One party, the other party, all of us, the president.
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The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.
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I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.
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No commander in chief would ever say, I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
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