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Senator Pat Roberts
Republican • Kansas • 11th Term • Sworn In 1981
- 14 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 57 of 100) 0 Made Into Law (Ranks 15 of 100)
- 200 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 28 of 100) 1 Made Into Law (Ranks 32 of 100)
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Senator talks issues in Fort Scott
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts discusses agriculture with local residents following a town hall meeting Friday morning at the Heritage Park Pavilion in downtown Fort Scott. FORT SCOTT, Kan. -- U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, talked to local students and several ..
Ex-CIA director Robert Gates honored in Wichita
Sam Brownback, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, state legislators, Mayor Carl Brewer and plenty of Air Force brass and senior enlisted ranks. But Gates also used the opportunity to remind everyone that the needs he fought for while heading up the CIA in ...
Kansas Small Business Persons of the Year honored in Cimarron
The couple also received letters of congratulations from Congressman Tim Huelskamp and Senator Pat Roberts. Representatives from their respective offices read and presented the acclamations. Senator Garrett Love presented the Jenkins' with a plaque ...
Wichita native and ex-CIA director Robert Gates honored at McConnell
Sam Brownback, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, state legislators, Mayor Carl Brewer and plenty of Air Force brass and senior enlisted ranks. But Gates also used the opportunity to remind everyone that the needs he fought for while heading up the CIA in ...
2012 Farm Bill officially introduced in U.S. Senate
3240) has been officially introduced in the U.S. Senate. The farm bill, authored by Stabenow and ranking member Sen. Pat Roberts, is a bipartisan bill that reforms U.S. food and farm policy to save taxpayers $23 billion while strengthening and ...
New Farm Bill subsidy could cost more than existing program, study warns
and ranking member Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) as cutting the deficit by $23.6 billion over ten years. CBO says the Stabenow-Roberts program would cost $2.6 billion per year. But the new study says that if crop prices return to average prices in the last ...
Sen. Roberts to make stop in Fort Scott
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, will conduct a town hall meeting in Fort Scott at 10:15 a.m. June 1 at the Heritage Park Pavilion. In case of bad weather, the gathering will be conducted at the Crooner's Lounge. Before the town hall, Roberts will receive
NBAF center is 'going to get done,' governor says
...Capital-Journal reports Brownback made his remarks during a meeting in Topeka of advocates for the facility, including U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins. The group discussed how the lab would help the United States respond to biosecurity
Kansas officials say securing NBAF money is top priority
...was printed from Kansas City Business Journal U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan.; and Gov. Sam Brownback made the comments at an NBAF steering committee meeting, according to the report. Kansas landed the federal research lab
NBAF group meets to study 2012 approach
The plan is for the committee assembled last July to meet annually. Sen. Pat Roberts, committee head, said bringing NBAF to Manhattan is his number one priority. "The state of our economy is a national security priority," Roberts said. He said the ...
Statehouse Live: Officials vow to fight for NBAF funding
"Everything that was rolling down the track in Washington is now subject to the environment that we face … in regards to spending money we don't have and the deficit and the debt and our efforts to reduce spending," U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts ...
New Law Creates Job Opportunities for Disabled Kansans
Most long-term Medicaid consumers are individuals with disabilities. U.S. Senator Pat Roberts joined the Governor for the bill signing. Sen. Roberts worked on a similar policy initiative at the federal level. Also on hand were Secretaries Pat ...
Legion Riders, Senator Honor Those Who Served
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - American Legion riders and bagpipes led the way for a ceremony at Topeka's Penwell-Gabel Cemetery featuring Sen. Pat Roberts. He and Kansas National Guard Col. John Muther laid a wreath honoring those who served.
Memorial Day Ceremonies
This event included a ride through the grounds by the american legion riders, wreath-laying ceremony and special words by U.S. Senator Pat Roberts and Colonel John Muther of the Kansas Army National Guard. People also gathered at Topeka Cemetery this ...
Kansas delegation talking to us like we’re high schoolers
Jerry Moran, 11.9 grade level; Rep. Kevin Yoder of Overland Park, 11.8 grade level; Sen. Pat Roberts, 11.4 grade level; Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Fowler, 10.2 grade level; and Rep. Mike Pompeo of Wichita, 9.4 grade level. Topping Congress was Rep. Dan Lungren
Kansas National Guard Memorial Day Events
The ceremony begins at 9 a.m. Senator Pat Roberts and the Legion Riders will also be participating in the ceremony. Maj. Jeff Howell, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 635th Regional Support Group, Hutchinson, will be the guest speaker at a ...
Roberts key in bipartisan crafting of farm bill
Good for Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., the ranking minority member and the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, for demonstrating bipartisanship and getting a new farm bill formally filed Thursday in advance of a .
Asset protection
...flexible risk management program. The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee recently approved its version of the 2012 farm bill. Sen. Pat Roberts helped spearhead the bipartisan effort that helped strengthen and preserve the crop insurance program. “I’m
Farm Bill Heads for Senate Floor
and ranking member Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., announced it would be debated soon. In the announcement, Stabenow and Roberts say that S.3240 has been officially introduced. In a press statement announcing the bill's move for full consideration by the Senate
Ag Reform, Food and Jobs Act Officially Introduced in Senate
3240) has been officially introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill, authored by Chairwoman Stabenow and Ranking Member Sen. Pat Roberts, is a bipartisan bill that reforms U.S. food and farm policy to save taxpayers $23 billion while strengthening and ...
Farm Bill Heads for Senate Floor
and ranking member Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., announced it would be debated soon. In the announcement, Stabenow and Roberts say that S.3240 has been officially introduced. In a press statement announcing the bill's move for full consideration by the Senate
Farm bill officially introduced in Senate
...bipartisan bill -- authored by Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, ranking member -- reforms U.S. food and farm policy to save taxpayers $23 billion while strengthening and streamli
McConnell Intelligence Complex to be named after Gates
Dedication for the Robert M. Gates Intelligence Complex is set for May 30. Governor Sam Brownback, Sen. Pat Roberts and Mayor Carl Brewer along with various base and guard personnel will attend. Gates served as Defense Secretary under Presidents ...
Senate farm bill is filed
“The time for reform has come.” “Farm bills can take two weeks or a year and half which happened to me in 96,” said her Republican partner, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, who famously struggled through the mid-1990’s “Freedom to Farm ...
Senator Roberts: Protection of Intellectual Property Critical to Rural Economy, Job Creation
May 24, 2012 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today said the protection of intellectual property is key to rural economies, with intellectual property (IP ...
BIO Lauds Senate Passage of User Fee Package
Senator Hagan is to be congratulated for her hard work and ... would have slowed the FDA's consideration of genetically-modified salmon. We thank Senators Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Kerry (D-MA) and Scott Brown (R-MA) for working to defeat this amendment.
Blog Watch: Wednesday, May 23
...can be a foundation for communities in the wake of the tragedy in Joplin, Missouri. The Wichita Eagle Blog wonders if U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts could be vulnerable to a challenger in Kansas. The Missouri Record considers Marisol Montero's fight for transpar
Chamber Study Promotes Benefits of IP
...it's about jobs for American workers and American families and it affects every single state." Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Pat Roberts, R-Kan., also spoke at the event and stressed the importance of intellectual property to agriculture, a key indu
Proponents of Tougher Intellectual Property Law Try to Shift Debate
...across.” The chamber trotted out IP examples far from the Hollywood movie set, such as counterfeit malaria medicine, to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.). “Intellectual property protection isn’t just about music labels and movie studios. It’s about more
Could Roberts be vulnerable?
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., landed an unenviable spot on a list of longtime U.S. senators vulnerable to a challenge from the right, in the wake of the Nebraska and Indiana GOP primaries. Salon.com’s Steve Kornacki wrote of Roberts: “He’s old (76 ...
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