Outgoing GOP Senator Joins Lobbying Law Firm
WASHINGTON -- Outgoing Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) is headed for a pay raise, announcing on Tuesday he'll be joining a high-profile law firm that lobbies on...
WASHINGTON -- Outgoing Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) is headed for a pay raise, announcing on Tuesday he'll be joining a high-profile law firm that lobbies on...
Miles Grant | Posted 05.25.2011
With polluters pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbying and political contributions this year, Big Oil and King Coal are hoping to keep Sen. Bond's anti-clean air spirit alive well into the next Congress.
Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
I spent my entire adult life serving as a military officer where I was precluded from direct involvement in partisan political activity. I retired fr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Back and forth we go on the whole "Faisal Shahzad is linked to the Pakistani Taliban" matter! Over the weekend, Attorney General Eric Holder and Na...
Politico | Glenn Thrush | Posted 05.25.2011
Pete King, Kit Bond and Lindsey Graham have all called for John Brennan's head in recent days -- King and Graham have cited Brennan's defense of the e...
Washington Times | Jim McElhatton | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Christopher S. Bond regularly railed against President Obama's economic stimulus plan as irresponsible spending that would drive up the national ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
On yesterday's edition of "Meet The Press", John Brennan took the opportunity to blast his GOP critics for politicizing the war on terror. A worthy ca...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Leading Republican senators stepped up their attacks on the administration Thursday for its handling of the interrogation of the Christmas Day bomber....
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps it's not such a bad thing that worn out old codgers like Dodd, Dorgan and Voinovich move aside to allow some fresh blood to flow through the Beltway.
Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administ...
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011
The CIA is none too happy about the recent disclosure of apparently inchoate "significant actions" canceled by Director Leon Panetta. After the activi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Republicans may have found a way to keep public health care meetings at home from getting out of control: keep the public out. On Monday, Sena...
Laurence Leamer | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Leahy detailed how, during the Bush years, the Peace Corps had arrogantly ignored his repeated requests for information. I told him it was a new administration and a new time, but that didn't seem to matter.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 05.25.2011
Dodd's bill was born not in his office in the Russell Building but in the tiny village of Moncion in the Dominican Republic more than forty years ago.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Kit Bond suggested on Thursday that the openness of the Obama administration to merely investigating the possibility of criminal activity during ...
The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a good one. In the course of attacking Obama's decision to release the torture memos, GOP Senator Kit Bond appears to have admitted that the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
Bobby Jindal is playing politics, branding himself and his party in an effort to return to power, all at the expense of the people of his state.
CNN | Posted 05.25.2011
Robin Carnahan, scion of a Missouri political dynasty, announced Tuesday she's running for the seat set to be vacated by longtime Missouri Sen. Kit Bo...
AP | DAVID A. LIEB | Posted 05.25.2011
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2010, saying he wants to go out "at the t...
Posted 05.25.2011
MO-Sen: Head-to-Head Matchups
CBS News | Posted 05.25.2011
Taking the stage as one of the pre-program speakers at a Sarah Palin rally here in Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, fired up the c...
Crooks and Liars | Nicolle Bell | Posted 05.25.2011
Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swim...
Talking Points Memo | David Kurtz | Posted 05.25.2011
GWEN IFILL: I just would like to -- but do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture? SEN. KIT BOND: There are different w...
Associated Press | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011
Bond, along with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sponsored the bill enacted last month. It was largely drawn from an 11-page proposal pushed by the Bush ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011