W. Todd Akin: “So, in a way, it's creating a job for people to deal with government redtape, but it doesn't really create any wealth…”

I am a huge state's right guy, but the military is a federal thing and that is why I think it should be there.

I know the party voters took a look at our hearts, understood who we were, had a chance to meet us in many, many different ways, and made a decision, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that the party bosses are going to dictate who…

It makes little sense to be shrinking our Navy just months after the announcement of a strategy that would shift emphasis to Asia.

On rollcall Nos. 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, and 536, I was delayed and unable to vote. Had I been present I would have voted ``aye'' on rollcall No. 519, ``no'' on rollcall No. 520…