Senator Robert Casey

Democrat  •  Pennsylvania  •  1st Term  •  Sworn In 2007
Current Term 2007 - 2012
  • Votes with party 94%
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02/06/07
Peggy Townsend, Name Dropping: Kindness brings woman the car of ...

Last Thursday evening at Bookshop Santa Cruz, a very pregnant Casey Coonerty told a crowd of family, friends and community well-wishers about her new role ...

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA
02/07/07
Utah Preps for Abortion Battle

"If all the lower courts agree that this is unconstitutional, then the Supreme Court would probably react cautiously and not take it," said Robert Bennett, ...

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02/07/07
Lawmakers Approve Gen. Casey As Army Chief Of Staff

Washington, DC (AHN) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates was cautiously optimistic on the situation in Iraq during his appearance before the Senate Armed ...

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02/07/07
Commentary: Gen. Casey's plain speaking on Iraq

However, new Defense Secretary Robert Gates is a different kind of man than his predecessor Rumsfeld. There have already been many signs that Gen. ...

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02/08/07
US Senate Confirms General George Casey To Head The Army

As a result of his over 30 months commanding directly from Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says Casey "was the first choice." ...

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02/08/07
Utah preps for abortion battle

"Right now, on the Supreme Court there are not five votes to overturn Planned Parenthood versus Casey. ... It's absolutely clear that the current court ...

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02/08/07
Utah preps for abortion battle

"Right now, on the Supreme Court there are not five votes to overturn Planned Parenthood versus Casey. ... It's absolutely clear that the current court ...

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02/08/07
Fans of poet Burns gather in Donora

... to prepare an oral tribute to Robert Burns. Past speakers included Rick Sebak, of WQED Multimedia, and newly elected Democratic US Sen. Bob Casey. ...

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02/08/07
Casey Approved by Senate; Negroponte One Step From State Department

2 at the State Department under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick left in July.

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02/09/07
Casey Confirmed US Army Chief Of Staff

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates praised Casey as "eminently qualified" and "the first choice of the professional military and the secretary of the Army ...

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02/09/07
Gates cites Iran evidence on explosives

... sources and methods, that doesn't make it harder for us to deal with the situation that's there," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said today.

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02/09/07
Culture of Corruption

John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and Robert P. Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania. According to a 139-count federal indictment returned Tuesday, Vincent J. Fumo, ...

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02/09/07
South Fork completes perfect Little 5 season

Wilkinson finished with 17 points and Connolly 18 while Casey Murphy added 12 and Isabel Chavez 8 for South Fork. The bigger issue for South Fork is whether ...

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02/09/07
Politicians battle for energy funding

Both Casey and Specter sent letters to Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Robert J. Portman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, ...

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02/09/07
Headlines for February 9, 2007

Here in the United States, the Senate has approved General George Casey to become the next Chief of Staff of the US military. The eighty-three to fourteen ...

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02/10/07
Red Hill holds off Casey-Westfield

(Robert) Petty hurt us on the boards. He was alone inside and we couldn’t stop their penetration at times.” Casey nearly won despite going nine minutes and ...

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02/10/07
New US commander says Iraq doomed unless American, Iraqi troops ...

Casey and warned that the country was "doomed to continued violence and civil strife" if American and Iraqi forces did not work together to improve security ...

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02/10/07
The man behind the scenes

Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, Casey oversees the day-to-day operations of the office, making sure everything runs smoothly. He and the other staff members are ...

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02/10/07
Casey confirmed as US army chief

Mr Negroponte was named as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's deputy last month, filling a role left vacant since Robert Zoellick left the post last ...

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02/10/07
New General Speaks Bluntly of Iraq War

Richardo Sanchez was Casey's predecessor and his tenure was marred by the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. He has since retired. ...

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02/10/07
General Becomes War's 3rd US Commander

On Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that serial numbers and other markings linked the Iranians to explosives used by insurgents in Iraq ...

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02/11/07
Ferocity Behind a Smile

Robert P. Casey Sr. once said he did not like to be in negotiations with the senator. Casey called him a "second-story man," a cat burglar. ...

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02/11/07
Robert Parry: Bush Is Hiding the Ball on Iran

John McCain to the departing general for Iraq, George Casey, for not making Bush's Iraq scheme work. Meanwhile, the Senate has tied itself up for more than ...

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02/12/07
Jules Witcover: Quarterback Bush’s latest play

George W. Casey Jr., the departed commander in Iraq, as the new Army chief of staff, 10 Republicans were among the 14 members voting against it. Sen. ...

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02/14/07
Pittsburgh attorney confirmed as federal judge

Pennsylvania Sens. Arlen Specter, a Republican, and Bob Casey, a Democrat, issued a joint statement praising her confirmation.

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02/14/07
United Way 2-1-1 Initiative Receives Support From Senators Clinton ...

Co-sponsors of federal 2-1-1 legislation from Southeastern Pennsylvania include US Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and US Senator Robert Casey (D-PA), ...

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02/15/07
Workers' comp at issue in bill

But Michael Casey, legal counsel for the Vermont State Employees' Association, said the protections offered to the employees in the bill were not out of the ...

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02/15/07
School Committee, lawmakers talk school funding

School Committee Carolyn Casey responded, saying the funding formula has “been tweaked, but hasn’t been seriously revamped.” Casey added this was something ...

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02/15/07
For Ethanol, the Future is Now

Bob Casey works at "The Henry Ford" museum in Dearborn, Michigan. "Ford said at some point in the future, we'll run out of oil, but before that time, ...

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02/15/07
No Cawdor, no MacBeth

By RICK CASEY. In MacBeth, one of history's greatest treatises on political ambition, Shakespeare characterized the heroic death of the treasonous Thane of ...

Source: Houston Chronicle, TX

Official website: http://casey.senate.gov/
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393 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6324
Fax: 202-228-0604

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