Ike Skelton

Democrat  •  17 Terms  •  Sworn In 1977
Last Term 2009 - 2010 View All

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12/29/10
VING's $25 million HQ project progressing

The funding for headquarters construction is contained in HR 6523, the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, which passed in ...

Source: Virgin Islands Daily News
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12/29/10
Around the capitol

ranking Republican on the committee, announced that the Senate has passed House Resolution 6523, the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for ...

Source: Southgate News Herald
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12/29/10
Ike Skelton loss named top Missouri story in 2010

Missouri voters ended the 34-year career of Democratic US Rep. Ike Skelton on Nov. 2, electing Republican Vicky Hartzler after a campaign in which the GOP ...

Source: Southeast Missourian
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12/28/10
Now Republicans Are Getting Corporate Checks

South Carolina state Senator Mick Mulvaney, who ousted 14-term Representative John Spratt, and Vicky Hartzler, who defeated 17-term incumbent Ike Skelton in ...

Source: BusinessWeek
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12/28/10
'Island of Fellowship' holds out hope

The second was Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton. I recalled this moment when Congressman Gene Taylor promised he would vote for Skelton, chairman of the ...

Source: Hattiesburg American
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12/27/10
No. 5: Voters changed the change

Notable in the incumbent dismissals was Democratic Rep. Ike Skelton, a powerful chairman of the Armed Services Committee whose central and southwestern ...

Source: News-Press Now
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12/27/10
2010: The end of many eras

And Missouri Democrat Ike Skelton, after more than 30 years in Congress, lost his reelection bid to Republican Vicky Hartzler. Washington has said goodbye, ...

Source: Politico (blog)
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12/27/10
Politics ruled state news in year of dramatic wins, losses

...November elections, the biggest headline was about who lost. Missouri voters ended the 34-year career of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton on Nov. 2, electing Republican Vicky Hartzler after a campaign in which the GOP worked furiously to connect Skelton

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12/26/10
Skelton loss chosen top Missouri story in 2010

...the November elections, the biggest headline was about who lost. Missouri voters ended the 34-year career of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton on Nov. 2, electing Republican Vicky Hartzler after a campaign in which the GOP worked furiously to connect Ske

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12/26/10
RE: Ike Skelton

I also looked at the much larger Ike Skelton Nat. Defense Authorization Act for FY 2011 on THOMAS, and found this : Hey, that's $13 Billion in extra money ...

Source: Auburn Journal
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12/26/10
Tulsa World (Oklahoma)

HOUSE Vote 1: Funding the military in fiscal year 2011: The House has passed the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act (HR 6523), sponsored by Rep. ...

Source: FireEngineering.com
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12/26/10
RE: Ike Skelton

Missouri voters ended the 34-year career of Democratic US Rep. Ike Skelton on Nov. 2, electing Republican Vicky Hartzler after a campaign in which the GOP ...

Source: Kansas City Star
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12/23/10
Letters to the Editor

I'm still simmering about the article bemoaning the loss of a liberal like Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ...

Source: NavyTimes.com
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12/23/10
RE: Ike Skelton

It covered the meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a delegation of the American Congress led by Ike Skelton (D-Missouri) following immediately ...

Source: Gulf Today
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12/23/10
Missouri Redistricting

elect Ike Skelton ran again. But I doubt he will. For some reason, Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, the Republican congressman for the current MO-09 (which ...

Source: Swing State Project
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12/23/10
Contractors are snapping up military contracts

...Fort Leonard Wood and is bidding on a $49 million munitions project at Whiteman, home of the B-2 Stealth bomber. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., elected to the U.S. House in 1976, has long steered projects to both bases, which are in his congressional district

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12/22/10
Defense giving VI Guard $25 million for HQ

The funding is included in HR 6523, the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, which passed the US House of Representatives ...

Source: Virgin Islands Daily News
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12/22/10
Defense giving VI Guard $25 million for HQ

The funding is included in HR 6523, the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, which passed the US House of Representatives ...

Source: Virgin Islands Daily News
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12/22/10
RE: Ike Skelton

US Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Missouri) serves as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, but lost his seat in the House to Hartzler in the November ...

Source: Lakenewsonline.com
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12/22/10
Defense Bill Passed Without Abortion Provision

...the 60 votes necessary to bring the loaded bill to the Senate floor for discussion and an approval vote. Last week, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) raised another version of the National Defense Authorization Act which did not contain the Burris Amendment. It

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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) to strip not just the repeal of “don't ask don't tell” [DADT], but a host of other controversial items in the bill after it was ...

Source: Eurasia Review
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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) to strip not just the repeal of “don't ask don't tell” [DADT], but a host of other controversial items in the bill after it was ...

Source: Eurasia Review
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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

The shout-outs to Kit Bond, Claire McCaskill, Emanuel Cleaver II, Sam Graves and Ike Skelton go to show how sprawling greater Kansas City has become without ...

Source: Pitch Weekly (blog)
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12/21/10
Today in Congress

Akaka - Oversight and Government Reform) Senate Amendment to HR 6523 - Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Rep. ...

Source: Daily Kos
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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

and Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) to strip not just the repeal of “don't ask don't tell” [DADT], but a host of other controversial items in the bill after it was ...

Source: Eurasia Review
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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

They are 7th District's Billy Long, who will succeed Roy Blunt, or Fourth district's Vicky Hartzler, who defeated Democrat Ike Skelton. ...

Source: St. Louis American
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12/21/10
RE: Ike Skelton

Passing an authorization bill was a point of pride for House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Ike Skelton (D., Mo.), who lost his chairmanship–and his ...

Source: Wall Street Journal (blog)
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12/21/10
Hoyer Statement on Final Passage of Ike Skelton Defense Authorization Bill

WASHINGTON, DC - Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the following statement today after final passage of the Ike Skelton Defense Authorization ...

Source: U.S. Politics Today
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12/21/10
Congress (Finally) Passes Defense-Policy Bill

...president for hissignature. Passing an authorization bill was a point of pride for House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Ike Skelton (D., Mo.), who lost his chairmanship–and his House seat–in the midterm elections. For 48 consecutive years,

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12/20/10
GE Alternative F-35 Engine Included in Stopgap Government Funding Measure

Also signing were senior committee Republicans Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and Todd Akin of Missouri and outgoing Chairman Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat ...

Source: Bloomberg
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