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Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Health Care Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Lobbyblog, Pat Roberts, Comedy News

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...

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

Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

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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...

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

Mike Nellis | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas Republican Party, Kansas, Sam Brownback, Todd Tiahrt, Kansas Democratic Party, Dennis-Moore, Pat Roberts, Lynn Jenkins, Politics News
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...

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Arthur Delaney

Health Care Discussed At Fundraiser For GOP Senators On Finance Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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

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The Senate Hates Young People and Trees...

Jake Brewer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: S.482, Harry Reid, Senate, Mitch McConnell, Psa, Pat Roberts, Transparency, Intern, U.S. Senate, Sunlight Foundation, Politics News
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.

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

The Hill | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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

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First GOP Senator Pledges Vote Against Sotomayor

The Hill | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

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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...

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Sam Stein

Criticism Of CIA Has Bipartisan Roots

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leon Panneta, Cia Intelligence Agency, Republicans Cia, Pat Roberts, John Boehner, Cia Criticism, Politics News

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

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

Washington Post | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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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. ...

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Another GOP Senator Skipping Convention

MSNBC News | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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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...

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