Claire McCaskill

“When we talk about workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights, we are having the same conversation about human rights – and the universal struggle to be understood and treated as equals.”

McCaskill apologized on Twitter for using a “hurtful term,” saying she was “tired.”

Josh Hawley took money from an anti-gay group and was prepared to appear with an anti-LGBTQ Christian historian. Now he’ll be a Senator.

The amendment sought to strike an Obama-era practice of requiring the Pentagon to pay for gender transition surgeries and hormone therapy.

Liberals will demand Democrats block the choice and the new president will urge Republicans to blow up longstanding rules to secure confirmation.

Senator McCaskill made the announcement on her Tumblr page.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a moderate Democrat from Missouri who has, until now, refused to take a public opinion on the issue of same-sex marriage, announced Sunday that she supports marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.