🔆Highlights are:
▶️Senior member of the Armed Services Committee
▶️Founding member of Senate Veteran Jobs Caucus, successfully championing new policies & resources to improve the life for our military heroes, helping eliminate unemployment and homelessness among veterans
▶️McCaskill helped launch Veterans’ Customer Satisfaction Program (VCSP), a confidential method for Missouri vets to give feedback on their local VA facility, has introduced legislation to build a network of more qualified/stable directors & other personnel at local facilities
▶️National recognition for successful effort to replace Army officials mismanaging Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr after reports of neglect
▶️Introduced Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act, a basis for successful legislation that provides immediate medical relief to service members
▶️McCaskill helped clean up mismanagement of Arlington National Cemetery following disclosures of mismarked gravesites
🕸️Claire McCaskill's website, on her "issues" page re: Delivering for Veterans
▶️McCaskill helped Pentagon with troubled recovery efforts for POW/MIA soldiers, passed into law a measure requiring the Secretary of Defense to designate a single organization to handle these efforts
▶️Cosponsored & helped pass 21st Century GI Bill—one of the most important new benefits passed for veterans in decades
▶️Helped pass VOW to Hire Heroes Act, which provides tax credits to employers to hire veterans #vetsresist #supportourtroops #resist #vets
▶️McCaskill helped pass provision to ensure military members receive mental health screenings for: depression, suicide, PTSD and combat-related stress at set intervals for 2 years after returning to states
▶️Also backed a measure on behalf of Guard and Reserve forces to ensure they receive access to quality mental health care upon their return to the U.S.
▶️Cosponsored and helped pass into law Post 9/11 Veteran’s Education Assistance Act, which entitles vets who served 3 yrs on active duty after 9/11/01 to full tuition assistance & living stipend. It’s the greatest boost to veterans’ higher education benefits since World War II
▶️McCaskill helped pass into law Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight (HERO) Act, which requires extensive research on physical & mental health & other readjustment needs of veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan
▶️Helped pass into law Rural Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act, expanding care in rural areas
▶️Helped pass into law a measure that provides innovative transportation options to vets in remote rural areas & reimburse vets for transportation costs to health care appointments
▶️McCaskill introduced legislation that would establish behavioral health residency programs in underserved rural areas
▶️Helped secure military honors for veterans who were neglected
▶️Introduced bipartisan legislation to designation Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, MO as the Nat'l World War I Memorial
▶️Supports Stolen Valor Act, legislation that would put in place criminal penalties for anyone who makes false claim relating to military service or award
🗳️Many reasons to support, endorse and vote for Claire McCaskill @clairecmc!
🇷🇺On the other hand, Dana Rohrabacher: The Kremlin Likes Him So Much They Gave Him a Code Name
ℹ️Refresher course: Putin kills people. His enemies. Journalists. Innocent people. He wants Democracy to die in every country lucky enough to still have it.
🔥White supremacist protesters—White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members—brandished torches and marched onto the UVA campus in Charlottesville, VA.
👉Photo Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/@washingtonpost via Getty Images
🔥🔥Saturday, August 12, 2017 a similar, bigger rally called "Unite the Right" held at noon erupted in many brawls. Alex Fields, a reported Nazi sympathizer drove a Dodge Challenger blindly into the crowd and killed 32-year old Heather Heyer.
Trump: the violence? "Many sides."
🧚♀️MOB RULE?!?!
🧚♀️10/6/18 ▶️Women—upset with the inevitability with a Supreme Court nominee getting sworn in—a nominee who clearly lied, had multiple credible sexual allegations against him, had a surly demeanor and was blatantly partisan, protested peacefully.
💬"The history is exactly what I told you."—Mitch McConnell
🤥🐢An hour after Judge Antony Scalia died: "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
🤥🐢"We simply followed the tradition in America, which is if you have a party of a different—a different Senate of a different party than the president, you don't fill a vacancy created in the presidential year. That went all the way back to 1888."
🤥🐢Will McConnell fill a SCOTUS vacancy in Trump's last year? "The answer to your question is, we'll see if there's a vacancy in 2020."
💬No answer.
▶️Mitch, you didn't attack Merrick Garland because you couldn't.
▶️You never mentioned "opposing party" caveat in 2016
🌍Unilever just recently announced it was abandoning plans to move its headquarters from the U.K. to Holland after the Brexit vote (the U.K. leaving the European Union) as many other companies have done.
🔥🔥Yes, Brett Kavanaugh. The judge cited twice=Gorsuch. Is this a coincidence?
▶️One of the 4 reasons Concord's lawyers moved to dismiss was that they claimed Concord had no knowledge that the crime they were committing was actually a crime. Kavanaugh supported this theory.
9⃣Yes, Brett Kavanaugh's opinions are cited NINE times by a Russian company seeking to get Mueller's charges dropped.
Mueller charged Concord, 2 other Russian companies and 12 foreigners associated with Russia for illegally using social media platforms to SOW POLITICAL DISCORD.
▶️couldn't he answer so many simple "yes" or "no" questions?
▶️didn't he ask for further investigation by the FBI?
▶️did he try to destroy evidence?
▶️is Trump mocking his accuser at his "rally?"
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️is Trump fabricating this war against young men?
▶️does he claim all his friends refuted Dr. Ford's claims when Dr. Ford TOLD NO ONE FOR DECADES?
▶️did he say "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game?
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️did he say "boofing" was flatulence?
▶️did he claim no prior knowledge of Deborah Ramirez' claims before the @NewYorker article?
▶️did he evade Patrick Leahy's question about being called "Bart?"