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      <excerpt>...get off public assistance, and become productive members of society so that I don't have to continue to support you. Rep. Todd Tiahrt does not want anyone to &quot;have to go to a public official to get health care.&quot; Doesn't he mind people having to go to a </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has endorsed U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt in his bid for the U.S. Senate, Tiahrt's office announced Thursday. &quot;Todd Tiahrt is a principled fiscal and social conservative who understands what it takes to keep this</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...$718,509 * No. 336: Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, $506,509 * No. 435: Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, $186,506 * No. 470: Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, $105,007. Brownback and his wife, Mary Stauffer Brownback, a member of a family that once owned a media co</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and a former CEO of Thayer Aerospace. Five candidates are seeking the Republican nomination for the seat now held by Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who is running for U.S. Senate: Pompeo, Kelsey, Schodorf and businessmen Jim Anderson and Wink Hartman. State Rep. Raj</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Council on Aerospace to develop a strategy and with Boeing officials to learn what other steps could be taken. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who represents Kansas' 4th District in the U.S. House, joined 38 Boeing supporters in Congress in sending a letter to Presid</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Washington Council on Aerospace to develop a strategy and with Boeing officials to learn what other steps could be taken. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who represents Kansas' 4th District in the U.S. House, joined 38 Boeing supporters in Congress in sending a lette</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Young, R-Fla., as well as Reps. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind.; James Moran, D-Va.; Norman Dicks, D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. The Office of Congressional Ethics, according to the Post, is examining whether members secured earmarks be</excerpt>
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