Your View: Will be watching

Memorial Day travelers bemoan high gas prices

Norm Hayward and his wife, Claudia, have a couple of things going for them as they continue their increasingly expensive motor home trip around parts of the United States. For starters, the Phoenix, Ariz., couple are saving on hotel costs.

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January 22, 2013

Your View: Will be watching

By Steven Robertson Special to The Globe The Joplin Globe Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:25 AM CST

NEOSHO, Mo. — I recently sent the following letter to U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. I wish to share it with the readers of The Joplin Globe:

Dear Sen. McCaskill,

Please stop Harry Reid’s plot to change the Senate rules and end the long-standing right for every member to have their say on legislation — and filibuster, if necessary.

Reid is breaking the very rules that have guided the Senate in order to change this rule — and that is illegal and ethically wrong.

Reid’s scheme must be thwarted — and that is why I am asking you to vote against his proposed plan. I will be watching how you vote on this issue.

Steven Robertson

Neosho

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