U.S. Senator Roy Blunt will keep his leadership post in the Senate Republican caucus. The GOP lawmaker from Missouri is the vice chairman of the chamber's Republican conference.
Missouri's two U.S. senators are taking opposite positions on whether to raise taxes on the wealthy as part of a solution to the so-called fiscal cliff facing the economy.
Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill said yesterday that she supports President Barack Obama's insistence that top income-earners should face higher tax rates...