Senator Pat Roberts

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

11/06/09
Kansas senators are millionaires

...other Kansans in the Congress and their ranking on the list of 556 Congressional and executive officials were: * No. 211: Sen. Pat Roberts, R, $1,429,530 * No. 295: Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, $718,509 * No. 336: Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, $506,509 * No

Source: HutchNews.com
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 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

11/01/09
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
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

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
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 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
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

10/29/09
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

10/28/09
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
Opinion Line (Oct. 26)

...there's an opt-out provision for states for the health care plan, Sen. Sam Brownback will ensure Kansans get left behind. Sen. Pat Roberts wants health insurance reform; he just wants you to pay for it. The Eagle needs to run a fact check with any comme

Source: Kansas.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

10/25/09
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

Source: CJOnline
10/23/09
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,

Source: Kansas.com
10/23/09
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

Source: Miami Herald
10/23/09
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 ...

Source: The Associated Press
10/23/09
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

Source: Miami Herald
10/23/09
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

10/22/09
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

Source: Kansas.com
10/22/09
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 ...

Source: The Hill
10/22/09
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. ...

Source: The Wichita Eagle
10/21/09
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

Source: HutchNews.com
10/21/09
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 ...

Source: Kansas Liberty

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