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

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: David Cameron, Pat Roberts, Elections 2012, Pat McFadden, Lindsey Graham, Jon Trickett, Austerity, Nicolas Sarkozy, Grand Bargain, European Debt Crisis, Video, Greece, European Elections, Jerry Nadler, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, Brad Miller, Politics News

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

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

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.15.2012

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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...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Jon Kyl, Drill Baby Drill, Pat Roberts, Offshore Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill 2010, Eat the Press, Politics News

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?"

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Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

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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Health Care Discussed At Fundraiser For GOP Senators On Finance Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Chuck Grassley, Lobbying, Party Crasher, Pat Roberts, Health Care Reform, Fundraising, Health Care, Politics News

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 05.25.2011

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

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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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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Criticism Of CIA Has Bipartisan Roots

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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

Posted 05.25.2011

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KS-Sen: Roberts vs Slattery

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