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Michael McAuliff

GOP Senator Doesn't 'Know What We've Done To Mother Nature'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) took to the Senate floor Tuesday to lament the need for crop insurance, pointing out that extreme weather has ...

Now, Not Later -- We Need to Talk About the Farm Bill

Robert Lawrence | Posted 03.12.2013 | Home
Robert Lawrence

The farm bill extension that passed was written behind closed doors and serves a few powerful interests -- not the interests of the average citizen, public health, and the environment. We should be outraged.

Ryan Grim

'Off With Their Heads': U.S. Politicians Eye Europe Warily

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.16.2012 | Politics

Ned Simons reported from London, Alexandre Phalippou from Paris, and Ryan Grim from Washington. When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ventured...

Lawmakers Caught In Tricky Situation, Key Group Prepares For The Worst

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.15.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it's a bit trickier. As la...

Jason Linkins

GOP Senators Can't Remember This "Drill, Baby, Drill" Thing People Keep Talking About

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

At some point in the past, you may have gained a passing familiarity with this catchy, chantable little phrase, "Drill, Baby, Drill." It was sort of semi-ubiquitous, remember? It was pretty much one of the three or four things that everyone who watched the McCain campaign understood as an actual, sort of, policy that the Arizona Senator supported. But maybe it is just a trick of memory! Because with gallons of oil floating around in the Gulf of Mexico as a backdrop, Senators Jon Kyl and Pat Roberts are basically telling reporters, "Drill, baby, drill? Was that, like, a thing?"

Jeff Muskus

Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Republican and conservative Democrat lawmakers revived a push Wednesday for the kind of delay to health care reform that a GOP senator admitted was pa...

Jason Linkins

Stephen Colbert Takes Aim At Relationship Between Legislators, Health Care Lobbyists (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

On last night's The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert took aim at the way the health care reform bill has been impacted by lobbyists -- which is to...

Pat Roberts Pleads For Three-Day Delay So Lobbyists Can Read Health Care Legislation (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Senate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) earnestly pleaded on Wednesday for the committee to delay a vote on its version of health care re...

VIDEO: Kansans Laugh at Rep. Tiahrt's Health Reform Lies

Mike Nellis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mike Nellis

It's been a barrel of laughs this summer for Kansas Republicans. However, instead of Rep. Lynn Jenkins laughing at uninsured constituents, we find v...

Arthur Delaney

Health Care Discussed At Fundraiser For GOP Senators On Finance Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Members of the Senate Finance Committee -- the last committee still wrangling over health care reform legislation -- have raised eyebrows lately with ...

The Senate Hates Young People and Trees...

Jake Brewer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jake Brewer

S.482 is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and it's time the Senate picked this one off and let us move on to even more pressing transparency issues.

Sen. Roberts Threatens To "Shut Down The Senate" Over Gitmo Detainees

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) threatened to "shut down the Senate" before he allows terrorist suspects to be relocated to Leavenworth, Kansas. Roberts he...

First GOP Senator Pledges Vote Against Sotomayor

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) became the first senator Thursday to go on the record to say that he would vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination...

Sam Stein

Criticism Of CIA Has Bipartisan Roots

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sensing blood, Republican officials have turned the friction between Nancy Pelosi and the Central Intelligence Agency into significant political hay. ...

CEO Appears To Pee On Taxpayers In Dem Ad (VIDEO)

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A new ad for former Rep. Jim Slattery, who is taking on Sen. Pat Roberts (R) in Kansas, is sure to get attention but maybe for all the wrong reasons. ...

Another GOP Senator Skipping Convention

MSNBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sen. Pat Roberts (KS) is now the eighth Republican senator to announce that they will not attend the GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minn., next month. R...

2008 Kansas Senate General Election:
Roberts (R-i) vs. Slattery (D)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

KS-Sen: Roberts vs Slattery