{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/the-town-hall-senator-mccaskill-armed-with-missourians-input-from-50-public-town-halls-is-ready-as-ever-to-fight-for-the-state-i-love", "The Town Hall Senator: McCaskill, Armed with Missourians’ Input from 50 Public Town Halls, is ‘ready as ever to fight for the state I love’", "2017-12-18", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Claire McCaskill", "M001170", "www.mccaskill.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The Town Hall Senator: McCaskill, Armed with Missourians Input from 50 Public Town Halls, is ready as ever to fight for the state I love \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t Averaging nearly one town hall per week in 2017, McCaskill plans to keep raising Missourians voices in Washington \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMonday, December 18, 2017\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tMISSOURI  The only way Missourians will know that their voices are being heard in Washington, is if Im showing up, hearing them, listening and learning, and using what I learn to fight for them in the Senate.\r\nThat, says Senator Claire McCaskill, is the driving principle behind the historic number of public town halls she held throughout Missouri in 2017.\r\nSaturday marked McCaskills 50th public town hall this yearmore than the rest of Missouris Congressional delegation combinedmeaning she averaged nearly one town hall every week.\r\nAll but two of the counties in which McCaskill hosted public town halls are traditionally conservative counties that delivered double-digit victories for President Donald Trump last year, an issue McCaskill specifically highlighted:\r\nWhether or not folks always agree with me isnt the pointI represent all Missourians, and I owe it to all Missourians to show up, show respect, hold myself accountable, and listen, said McCaskill, who was born in Rolla and raised in Houston and Lebanon, Missouri.\r\nThe feedback McCaskill has collected through her town halls has already fueled several of the fights she is waging in the Senatefrom the urgent need to invest in rural broadband, and feedback on how to protect Missourians 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\nMcCaskill has committed to using what she has heard to reinforce her efforts in the new year.\r\nWhat Missourians told metheir ideas, their concerns, their criticismsall of it makes me a better Senator, better equipped to achieve the results they expect. And Im ready as ever to fight for the state I love.\r\n\r\nBy the numbers:\r\n50\r\nthe number of public town halls, announced in advance, and open to any Missourian and to the press, that McCaskill held in 2017more than the rest of Missouris Congressional delegation combined\r\nalso, the number of press conferences with local reporters following each town hall\r\n0\r\nissues or questions from Missourians that McCaskill ducked or shied away from\r\nThousands\r\nthe number of Missourians who attended McCaskills town halls to get their questions answered and offer her their ideas and feedback\r\n\r\nCounties that hosted McCaskills 2017 public town halls:\r\n \r\nAdair\r\nAudrain\r\nBarry\r\nBoone\r\nBuchanan\r\nButler\r\nCallaway\r\nCamden\r\nCape Girardeau\r\nCass\r\nChristian\r\nCrawford\r\nDeKalb\r\nDunklin\r\nFranklin (2)\r\nGreene\r\nGrundy\r\nHarrison\r\nHenry\r\nHowell\r\nJackson\r\nJasper\r\nJefferson\r\nJohnson\r\nLincoln\r\nLivingston\r\nMacon\r\nMarion\r\nMiller\r\nMoniteau (2)\r\nMonroe (2)\r\nMorgan\r\nNew Madrid\r\nNodaway\r\nPhelps\r\nPike\r\nPlatte\r\nPolk\r\nPulaski\r\nRandolph\r\nSt. Francois\r\nSt. Louis\r\nStoddard\r\nTaney\r\nTexas\r\nWarren\r\nWashington\r\n \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/the-town-hall-senator-mccaskill-armed-with-missourians-input-from-50-public-town-halls-is-ready-as-ever-to-fight-for-the-state-i-love"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.529210014268756, "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"}