Senator Pat Roberts

Republican  •  Kansas  •  11th Term  •  Sworn In 1981
Current Term 2009 - 2014 View All
  • Votes with party 88%
  • Abstains: 5%

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11/03/09
The US Verges on Clinical Insanity?

US Senators Sam Brownback (pictured below), R-KS, and Pat Roberts, R-KS, applauded Senate passage of the Conference Report to the Department of Homeland ...

Source: Right Side News
11/03/09
Senator Roberts: Health Care Reform Proposals Will Raise Premiums and Hurt ...

By Staff reports US Senator Pat Roberts said health care reform proposals will raise health insurance premiums and hurt Kansas' small businesses. ...

Source: El Dorado Times
11/02/09
Roberts preparing for 2014

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is planning to run for re-election in 2014, The Hutchinson News reports. If he won, Roberts, 73, would be 84 at the conclusion of a 6-year term won in 2014, and he would rank 2nd among Kansas senators in longevity in the

11/02/09
Statehouse Live: Roberts preparing for 2014

...U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is planning to run for re-election in 2014, The Hutchinson News reports. If he won, Roberts, 73, would be 84 at the conclusion of a 6-year term won in 2014, and he would rank 2nd among Kansas senators in longevity in the S

11/02/09
Program extension to help housing market

...D.C., to lobby lawmakers to extend and expand the program. McGrew’s appointments included a stop by the office of Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who is a member of the Senate Finance Committee. The committee has since “blessed the concept” of continuin

11/02/09
Roberts Will Seek Re-Election In 2014

Senator Pat Roberts is planning to seek re-election in 2014 and is already raising money for his campaign. The "Hutchinson News" reports the 73-year-old ...

Source: KSAL
11/01/09
Northrop charges that tanker bidding skewed toward Boeing

"This is just posturing and an attempt to tilt the competition in their favor," charged Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. "We have seen it before." Rep. ...

Source: MiamiHerald.com
11/01/09
Roberts already planning 2014 bid

... Published online 10/31/2009 10:49 PM U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., is raising money now for his re-election bid - in 2014. Yes, Roberts plans to be a candidate when his current term comes up in the 2014 election cycle, his Senate staff

Source: HutchNews.com
11/01/09
Obama is certainly no LBJ — just ask Kansas' two senators

...We know that from what’s happening — or not happening — in Kansas. The state’s two Republican senators, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts , regularly criticize the president on health care reform or veterans policies or his handling of Sudan. Yet th

11/01/09
Northrop charges that tanker bidding skewed toward Boeing

...agreed with Murray and Tiahrt. "This is just posturing and an attempt to tilt the competition in their favor," charged Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. "We have seen it before." Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., said, "Let them pull out." For its part, Boeing said the

Source: Miami Herald
10/30/09
Senate clears bill, averting shutdowns

...houses and county courthouses. For instance, the measure contains $500,000 requested by Kansas GOP Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to help restore the Colonial Fox Theatre in Pittsburg, Kan. A half-dozen other theaters would receive funds as well. M

10/30/09
Congress approves buyouts for Treece

...water. "It's been a long, dusty, chat-covered road, but for the citizens of Treece, finally, help will be on the way," said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who has been pushing for a buyout of Treece for two years. Roberts said he has been in contact with EP

Source: Kansas.com
10/30/09
Senate clears bill to avert agency closing

...houses and county courthouses. For instance, the measure contains $500,000 requested by Kansas GOP Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to help restore the Colonial Fox Theatre in Pittsburg, Kan. A half-dozen other theaters would receive funds as well. M

10/30/09
EPA gets OK to buyout, relocate residents of contaminated Treece, Kan.

...by huge piles of mining waste called chat and dotted with uncapped shafts and cave-ins filled with brackish, polluted water. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, said he has been in contact with EPA officials and expects a buyout announcement "in week

Source: McClatchy
10/30/09
Vote in Congress offers hope for buyout of Treece, Kan.

...huge piles of mining waste called chat and dotted with uncapped shafts and cave-ins filled with brackish, polluted water. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, said he has been in contact with EPA officials and expects a buyout announcement “in weeks

10/30/09
Congress approved buyout of Treece, southeast Kansas town scarred by mining

...Appropriations Conference Report that was approved by both chambers Thursday. The amendment was introduced by Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback of Kansas and James Inhofe of Oklahoma. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the legislation by Satur

10/30/09
RE: Pat Roberts

“It's been a long, dusty, chat-covered road,” said US Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., in a telephone interview about half an hour after the approval of the Fiscal ...

Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun
10/30/09
Treece bill on way to Obama's desk

“It's been a long, dusty, chat-covered road,” said US Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., in a telephone interview about half an hour after the approval of the Fiscal ...

Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun
10/29/09
Senate clears bill to avert agency closing

Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to help restore the Colonial Fox Theatre in Pittsburg, Kan. A half-dozen other theaters would receive funds as well. ...

Source: The Associated Press
10/29/09
Boehner Won't Pledge To Offer GOP Health Care Plan, Refuses To Post It Online ...

As Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) explained, health insurance lobbyists need to be given “at least 72 hours” so they can try to kill the legislation.

Source: Think Progress
10/29/09
Grant will improve RCPD

The grant, which was announced by US Senator Pat Roberts' office in late August, will go toward purchasing software to operate Mobile Data Terminals for the ...

Source: Kansas State Collegian
10/29/09
Senate clears bill to avert agency closing

...houses and county courthouses. For instance, the measure contains $500,000 requested by Kansas GOP Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to help restore the Colonial Fox Theatre in Pittsburg, Kan. A half-dozen other theaters would receive funds as well. M

10/29/09
Pelosi unveils final reform plans, Kansas Republicans opposed

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and member of the Senate Finance Committee, warned fellow committee members that the end result would not resemble the more ...

Source: Kansas Liberty
10/29/09
RE: Pat Roberts

... Barbara Boxer and John Kerry through her committee, and Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts says he and other Ag Republicans are anxious to work with her. ...

Source: Hoosier Ag Today
10/28/09
Where's Pat Roberts on health reform? Finally some answers

...earlier this week by the Kansas Health Institute. Reporting from Washington, the KHI's Mike Shields writes: U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas has been colorful, sharp spoken and consistent in opposing the health reform plans currently before Congress, bu

10/27/09
Brownback, Roberts, Moran, Tiahrt cite hate crimes provision in voting against military funding bill

...legislation so much that they voted against a bill funding the military for the next year. Both U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts last week said they voted against the $680 billion defense bill because it included the Matthew Shepard and James Byr

10/27/09
More than meets the eye on 'anti-rape' vote

...One might assume, therefore, that there must be some reasonable explanation for 30 Republican senators — including Kansans Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback — taking a position that would invite vilification, other than that Halliburton donates more c

Source: Kansas.com
10/26/09
Tiahrt went too far

So did Republican senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts and GOP Rep. Jerry Moran. Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins, whose district includes several military ...

Source: Winfield Daily Courier Online
10/26/09
Brownback, Roberts, Moran, Tiahrt cite hate crimes provision in voting against ...

Both US Sen. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts last week said they voted against the $680 billion defense bill because it included the Matthew Shepard and James ...

Source: KTKA.com
10/26/09
Brownback, Roberts, Moran, Tiahrt cite hate crimes provision in voting against military funding bill

...legislation so much that they voted against a bill funding the military for the next year. Both U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts last week said they voted against the $680 billion defense bill because it included the Matthew Shepard and James Byr

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