{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/saturday-50th-mccaskill-town-hall-of-the-year-in-kirkwood", "SATURDAY: 50th McCaskill Town Hall of the Year in Kirkwood", "2017-12-14", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Claire McCaskill", "M001170", "www.mccaskill.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "SATURDAY: 50th McCaskill Town Hall of the Year in Kirkwood \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t Senator\u2014averaging nearly one town hall per week in 2017\u2014will host public town hall at St. Louis Community College  \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThursday, December 14, 2017\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tKIRKWOOD \u2013 U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is bringing her town hall tour of Missouri to the town where she lives, and will host her 50th public town hall of the year at St. Louis Community College, Meramec Campus in Kirkwood this Saturday, December 16.\r\n\r\nSaturday, December 16 at 10:00 a.m. CT at the St. Louis Community College, Meramec Campus Theatre in Kirkwood, McCaskill will hold a public town hall, with media availability to follow.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe only way Missourians will know that their voices are being heard in Washington, is if I\u2019m showing up, listening, and using what I learn to fight for them,\u201d said McCaskill, who has hosted more public town halls in her time as Senator than the rest of Missouri\u2019s Congressional delegation combined. \u201cWhether or not folks always agree with me isn\u2019t the point\u2014I represent all Missourians, and I owe it to all Missourians to show up, show respect, hold myself accountable, and listen. What Missourians tell me\u2014their ideas, their concerns, their criticisms\u2014all of it makes me a better Senator, better equipped to achieve the results they expect.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe feedback McCaskill has collected through her town halls has already fueled several of the fights she is waging in the Senate\u2014from the urgent need to invest in rural broadband, and feedback on how to protect Missourians\u2019 access to healthcare, to ideas on how to boost job opportunities, invest in critical infrastructure like roads and bridges, and confront a growing opioid drug crisis in Missouri communities.\r\n\r\nMcCaskill has hosted forty-nine public town hall forums on previous tours across Missouri this year. In 2009 during debate over the Affordable Care Act\u2014at a time of heightened demonstrations against the legislation\u2014McCaskill held a series of highly publicized town halls, including in traditionally conservative areas of Missouri, to hear directly from Missourians about their concerns and respond to criticisms. In 2014, McCaskill logged more than 1,000 miles around the state on her \u201cMcCaskill on Main Street\u201d series of public town halls. McCaskill has also toured the state with town halls aimed at military veterans and seniors\u2014and has hosted individual town halls, such as one she hosted last year with then-U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack focused on the opioid epidemic.\r\n\r\nMcCaskill Public Town Hall \u2013 Kirkwood\r\n\r\nSaturday, December 16th\r\n10:00 a.m. CT public town hall\r\nMedia availability following the event\r\nMeramec Campus Theatre\r\nSt. Louis Community College\r\n11333 Big Bend Road\r\nKirkwood, Mo. 63122-5720\r\n*Seating is limited and offered on a first come first serve basis. Parking available in the West Lot off Couch Avenue. Campus map available HERE.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/saturday-50th-mccaskill-town-hall-of-the-year-in-kirkwood"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1345271486788988, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}