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Senator Pat Roberts
Republican • Kansas • 11th Term • Sworn In 1981
- 7 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 80 of 100) 0 Made Into Law (Ranks 16 of 100)
- 102 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 48 of 100) 1 Made Into Law (Ranks 64 of 100)
- Most often votes with:
- Sen. Samuel Brownback
- Sen. Ben Nelson
- Least often votes with:
- Sen. Olympia Snowe
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
- Votes with party 88%
- Abstains: 5%
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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
Letter: Challenge endorsed
...second Chelsea Harris' challenge, in her Oct. 15 letter to the editor, to Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to explain their reasoning on voting against Sen. Al Franken's amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act. Why should there be such a hue
Opinion Line Extra (Oct. 23)
...can pay the $1,000 fine and purchase insurance if we get sick. I will save thousands of dollars. It looks to me like most of Sen. Pat Roberts' suggestions for health care reform would result in higher premiums ("Health reform bill too costly, intrusive,
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
...that locating it in the continental U.S. makes an accidental release of a pathogen such as foot-and-mouth more likely. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and defender of the project, said the state has worked to protect U.S. agriculture and the lab i
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
...locating it in the continental U.S. makes an accidental release of a pathogen such as foot-and-mouth more likely. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and defender of the project, said the state has worked to protect U.S. agriculture and the lab is ano
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and defender of the project, said the state has worked to protect US agriculture and the lab is another piece of that ...
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
...locating it in the continental U.S. makes an accidental release of a pathogen such as foot-and-mouth more likely. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican and defender of the project, said the state has worked to protect U.S. agriculture and the lab is ano
Bill includes initial funding for National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility ...
by Other News WASHINGTON — US Senators Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan., recently applauded Senate passage of the Conference Report to the ...
Opinion Line (Oct. 22)
...the raises Congress gives itself every year while average Americans continue to get poorer. The "cuts" in Medicare that Sen. Pat Roberts keeps mentioning are not cuts in service. They are savings from having a more efficient system. Shouldn't his free l
Schumer to Obama: 'Significantly revamp corporate governance'
“It's a bad precedent,” said Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.). “You have government determining the pay of a company that may be in the business of trying to get ...
US Senate vote sends NBAF funding bill to Obama
Sarah Little, a spokeswoman for US Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said that an earlier provision of the bill requiring that $5 million of the total would be ...
Opinion Line (Oct. 22)
The "cuts" in Medicare that Sen. Pat Roberts keeps mentioning are not cuts in service. They are savings from having a more efficient system. ...
Opinion Line (Oct. 21)
...offset the cuts that will happen to their Medicare when this nutty health care bill gets ramrodded down our throats. Sen. Pat Roberts' commentary ("Health reform bill too costly, intrusive," Oct. 18 Opinion) was at least misleading. He didn't even sit
Bill bad for ag, state
...by $4.52 billion. The numbers speak for themselves. This is a bad bill for agriculture, and bad for Kansas. U.S. SEN. PAT ROBERTS Washington, D.C. Printer-friendly version Leave a comment! Alert us to inappropriate comments Notice about comment
Kansans will have to pay to support health care in states favored by Democrats
Sarah Little, spokesperson for Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, said Roberts has been concerned from the start that the legislation would be bent to ...
Opinion Line (Oct. 21)
Sen. Pat Roberts' commentary ("Health reform bill too costly, intrusive," Oct. 18 Opinion) was at least misleading. He didn't even sit in the Senate Finance ...
Kansas Senators Are Disappointing
Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts. The opposition levied by the 30 men, all Republicans, circled mainly around criticism that the amendment was too broad in ...
Romney to raise cash for DeMint
...contest. Then again, considering the current slate of wannabes, maybe not. The Republican's prospects look better in 2016, when Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) will likely take on Mark Warner (D-Virginia) in the general election. That's gonna be interesting. At
Letter: Brave Republicans
...marching orders from the RNC instead of the 65 percent of their constituents who support this badly needed reform. Sen. Pat Roberts even had the audacity to vote against reform and then start running TV ads exhorting his "protection of seniors health ca
Senate OKs biolab money, bill heading to Obama
...better place than in Kansas to do this research," Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said on the Senate floor before the vote. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the funding is a significant investment in the lab to be built in Manhattan, Kan. Research also will b
Senate OKs biolab money, bill heading to Obama
...is no better place than in Kansas to do this research," Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said on the Senate floor before the vote. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the funding is a significant investment in the lab to be built in Manhattan, Kan. Research also
Brownback, Roberts Applaud Passage of Homeland Security Bill
WASHINGTON – Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts have applauded Senate passage of the Conference Report to the Department of Homeland Security ...
Senate OKs biolab money, bill heading to Obama
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the funding is a significant investment in the lab to be built in Manhattan, Kan. Research also will be done at the lab on ...
Dem thumbs down to Reid doctors deal
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Pat Roberts (Kan.), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and George Voinovich (Ohio). Several of those Republicans, however, appear unlikely to ...
Brownback, Roberts vote against amendment that would ban federal contracts going to companies that require arbitration in cases of sexual assault, other claims
...sexual assault, discrimination or certain other claims through arbitration. Kansas’ two senators — Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Republicans — voted against the amendment. When asked Monday by the Lawrence Journal-World why they voted agains
Letter: Leadership needed
...Pat Roberts, since when does the U.S. set our carbon and other standards of leadership by those in developing countries? I am appalled and embarrassed by how some members of the Senate represent corporations, receiving millions in donations from them, b
Bond, Brownback and Roberts OK with rape-friendly contracts
...Sen. Claire "Bear" McCaskill voted for the amendment. The bad news: Three metro-area senators -- Kit Bond, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts -- were among the dirty 30 who voted against the anti-rape amendment. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart broke it down and
Time to Buy
...to additional tax credits for home buyers. “There have been discussions of extending the first time home buyer tax credit,” Sen. Pat Roberts’ press secretary Molly Haase said. Haase said since the Senate Finance Committee, of which Roberts is a me
RE: Pat Roberts
Missouri Sen. Claire "Bear" McCaskill voted for the amendment. The bad news: Three metro-area senators -- Kit Bond, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts -- were ...
In Health Care Overhaul Effort, Millions are Being Spent to Influence Congress
Sen. Pat Roberts sits on the Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pension committees, each with a key role in health care reform legislation. ...
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