K000360 1959-09-15 6858 1030 Longworth House Office Building http://www.house.gov/kirk/zipauth.shtml 10 202-225-0837 Mark 'r':4 'il':5 '-10':6 'rep':1 'kirk':3,8,10 'mark':2,7,9 M 400222 Kirk Mark_Steven_Kirk Steven Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10] 2895 N00012539 10109 Republican 202-225-4835 IL Mark Kirk 1.12820512820513 http://www.house.gov/kirk/ 400222 Person democrat Fri Nov 27 10:40:26 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...hyperpartisan politics that emanates from our nation's capital. So, I probably should've known better when Republican Rep. Mark Kirk announced his bid for the U.S. Senate. Soon afterwards, a national Democratic operative called to see what I thought abo 've':24 'abo':51 'bid':34 'rep':1,29 'see':47 'sun':54 'u.s':37 'call':45 'eman':14 'kirk':2,31 'mark':30 'oper':44 'soon':39 'time':55 'wing':9 'capit':19 'known':25 'polit':12 'right':8 'senat':38 'better':26 'nation':17,42 'rhetor':10 'abandon':3 'announc':32 'chicago':52 'probabl':22 'right-w':7 'sun-tim':53 'thought':50 'democrat':43 'principl':5 'afterward':40 'republican':28 'hyperpartisan':11 6803692 true true daylife Chicago Sun-Times http://www.suntimes.com/index/ OK http://www.suntimes.com/news/miller/1907193,CST-EDT-miller27.article 400222 Person congress Thu Nov 26 21:42:12 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0600 2009 US Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Highland Park) says we now have a "confused picture" as to who is running the policy, as well as a lot of unanswered questions after ... 'r':14 'us':9 'lot':35 'rep':10 'run':28 'say':17 'kirk':12 'mark':11 'news':42 'park':16 'well':32 'wgil':40 'radio':41 'confus':22 'pictur':23 'polici':30 'prison':7 'propos':8 'unansw':37 'concern':4 'thomson':6 'highland':15 'question':38 'r-highland':13 'congressman':1 6800847 true true google news WGIL Radio News OK http://www.wgil.com/localnews.php?xnewsaction=fullnews&newsarch=112009&newsid=437 400222 Person senate Thu Nov 26 10:41:06 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Rep. Aaron Schock of Peoria. “Because of the year I have spent working with my colleague from this state, I have come to admire Mark Kirk’s integrity and his constant vigilance to doing things above and beyond reproach,” Schock said in a statement 'us':7 'bid':9 'get':2 'rep':10 'come':31 'kirk':1,35 'mark':34 'said':50 'work':22 'year':18 'aaron':11 'admir':33 'senat':8 'spent':21 'state':28 'thing':44 'vigil':41 'beyond':47 'endors':5 'integr':37 'peoria':14 'schock':3,12,49 'tribun':55 'chicago':54 'colleagu':25 'constant':40 'reproach':48 'statement':53 6796381 true true daylife Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/ OK http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/cloutstreet/~3/Ksky5IsJFw0/kirk-gets-schocks-endorsement-for-us-senate-bid.html 400222 Person congress Thu Nov 26 21:42:12 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Rep. Mark Kirk – Republican, 10 th District of Illinois; Candidate, Illinois Senate Seat Congressman Kirk is a Commander in the US Navy Reserve who spends ... '10':8 'th':9 'us':24 'rep':4 'kirk':6,18 'mark':5 'navi':25 'seat':16 'talk':2 'eleph':1 'senat':15 'spend':28 'candid':13 'reserv':26 'turkey':3 'command':21 'illinoi':12,14 'district':10 'frumforum':29 'republican':7 'congressman':17 6800850 true true google news FrumForum OK http://www.frumforum.com/elephants-talk-turkey 400222 Person republican Wed Nov 25 21:45:56 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 BOLLING: We just so happen to have Representative Mark Kirk --he's a Republican from Illinois. He's also on the Appropriations Committee from the Republican ... '1':8 '24':5 '2009':6 'also':27 'boll':9 'hour':2 'kirk':18 'mark':17 'part':7 'happi':1 'design':36 'happen':13 'novemb':4 'repres':16 'develop':37 'illinoi':24 'product':35 'appropri':30 'committe':31 'republican':22,34 6791334 true true google news Product Design & Development OK http://www.pddnet.com/news-ap-happy-hour-for-november-24-2009-part-1-112509/ 400222 Person democrat Thu Nov 26 10:41:06 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...appointed to the post by Blagojevich after the then-governor was arrested last year. The crowded GOP primary includes U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of Chicago's northern suburbs, the best-known of the candidates in the field. Democrats running for the seat also i 'gop':26 'ill':1 'rep':30 'run':49 'u.s':29 'also':53 'best':40 'easi':8 'keep':3 'kirk':32 'last':22 'mark':31 'post':12 'seat':6,52 'year':23 'crowd':25 'field':47 'known':41 'obama':4 'senat':5 'arrest':21 'candid':44 'herald':56 'includ':28 'suburb':37 'appoint':9 'chicago':34 'primari':27 'democrat':2,48 'governor':19 'northern':36 'bradenton':55 'best-known':39 'blagojevich':14 'then-governor':17 6796382 true true daylife Bradenton Herald http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ OK http://www.bradenton.com/politics/story/1874541.html 400222 Person rep\. Wed Nov 25 21:45:56 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 But US Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., said he is trying to ensure that Glenview and North Chicago get the right of first refusal on the properties when they do ... 'r':13 'us':8 'get':26 'ill':14 'rep':9 'tri':18 'kirk':11 'land':5 'mark':10 'said':15 'ensur':20 'first':30 'north':24 'r-ill':12 'refus':31 'right':28 'tribun':39 'chicago':25,38 'purchas':6 'glenview':1,22 'optimist':3 'properti':34 6791335 true true google news Chicago Tribune OK http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/chi-glenview-land-nzone-25nov25,0,5036225.story 400222 Person republican Wed Nov 25 21:45:56 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 National Republicans recruited Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) to run for the Senate, even though they have bucked conservative orthodoxy ... 'r':18,25 '40':4 'de':26 'il':19 'gop':5 'rep':14,21 'run':28 'buck':36 'even':32 'fail':7 'kirk':16 'mark':15 'mike':22 'r-de':24 'r-il':17 'test':10 'castl':23 'least':3 'senat':31 'think':39 'lawmak':6 'nation':11 'puriti':9 'report':1 'though':33 'conserv':37 'recruit':13 'progress':40 'orthodoxi':38 'republican':12 6791332 true true google news Think Progress OK http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/report-gop-purity/ 400222 Person republican Wed Nov 25 21:45:56 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 In June Illinois Republican Mark Kirk bragged during a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that on a recent trip to China he'd told ... 'd':36 'new':38 'brag':16 'june':11 'kirk':15 'mark':14 'must':3 'read':4 'talk':19 'told':37 'trip':32 'china':6,34 'studi':27 'center':22 'intern':26 'recent':31 'republ':39 'deficit':9 'illinoi':12 'strateg':24 'must-read':2 'republican':13 6791337 true true google news New Republic OK http://www.tnr.com/node/71481 400222 Person democrat Wed Nov 25 10:42:40 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...to the post by Blagojevich after the then-governor was arrested last year. The crowded GOP primary includes U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of Chicago's northern suburbs, the best-known of the candidates in the field. Democrats running for the seat also include Chi 'chi':54 'gop':25 'ill':1 'rep':29 'run':48 'u.s':28 'also':52 'best':39 'easi':8 'keep':3 'kirk':31 'kltv':55 'last':21 'mark':30 'post':11 'seat':6,51 'year':22 'crowd':24 'field':46 'known':40 'obama':4 'senat':5 'arrest':20 'candid':43 'includ':27,53 'suburb':36 'chicago':33 'primari':26 'democrat':2,47 'governor':18 'northern':35 'best-known':38 'blagojevich':13 'then-governor':16 6785085 true true daylife KLTV http://www.kltv.com/ OK http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=11568920 400222 Person congress Fri Nov 27 10:40:18 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Kirk was recently interviewed about Rep. David Obey's proposed tax on the very wealthy to help pay for additional troops to Afghanistan. Obey is against sending more troops to Afghanistan, and says that if we do, there will be no money ... 'pay':27 'rep':15 'say':42 'tax':20 'blog':7,58 'help':26 'kirk':9,10 'mark':8 'obey':17,33 'send':36 'addit':29 'david':16 'ellen':1,52 'money':51 'tenth':4,55 'troop':30,38 'propos':19 'recent':12 'illinoi':3,54 'wealthi':24 'district':6,57 'interview':13 'afghanistan':32,40 'congression':5,56 6803688 false true google blog Ellen's Illinois Tenth Congressional District Blog http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/ OK http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2009/11/mark-kirk-health-care-too-expensive-we.html 400222 Person congress Fri Nov 27 10:40:19 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0600 2009 However, because Josie had gone back on her word, I had called Supervisor Gary Ovitt's Chief of Staff Mark Kirk to ask for help and he was supposed to call me back. I tried so hard to wait for his call but the sounds were getting to me ... 'ask':30 'get':54 'one':5 'tri':42 'back':13,40 'call':19,38,49 'gari':21 'gone':12 'hard':44 'help':32 'josi':10 'kirk':28 'know':6 'mark':27 'wait':46 'word':16 'chief':24 'howev':8 'ovitt':22 'sound':52 'staff':26 'stori':3 'suppos':36 'iepolit':1 'supervisor':20 'iepolitics.com':7,57 6803691 false true google blog iePolitics.com http://crittercollectibles.com/blog2/ OK http://crittercollectibles.com/blog2/2009/11/27/iepolitics-the-story-no-one-knows/ 400222 Person senate Fri Nov 27 10:40:18 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0600 2009 In my opinion, Representative Mark Kirk, a commissioned Naval Officer serving in US House of Representatives and candidate for US Senate from Illinois, has a sophisticated, realistic and nuanced view of the Middle East and its ... 'us':20,27 'blog':5,6,48 'east':41 'hous':21 'kirk':13 'mark':12 'serv':18 'view':37 'middl':40 'naval':16 'nuanc':36 'offic':17 'senat':28 'archiv':7 'candid':25 'reform':3,46 'repres':11,23 'commiss':15 'conserv':2,45 'illinoi':30 'network':4,47 'opinion':10 'realist':34 'sophist':33 6803687 false true google blog The Conservative Reform Network Blog http://crnblog.org/ OK http://crnblog.org/?p=4552 400222 Person republican Thu Nov 26 21:42:10 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0600 2009 National Republicans recruited Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) to run for the Senate, even though they have bucked conservative orthodoxy in the past. ThinkProgress has conducted an analysis that finds at least 40 ... 'r':20,27 '40':4,53 'de':28 'il':21 'gop':5 'rep':16,23 'run':30 'buck':38 'even':34 'fail':7 'find':50 'kirk':18 'mark':17 'mike':24 'past':43 'r-de':26 'r-il':19 'castl':25 'least':3,52 'senat':33 'lawmak':6 'nation':13 'poster':56 'puriti':12 'report':1 'though':35 'analysi':48 'conduct':46 'conserv':39 'recruit':15 'principl':9 'newspoodl':54 'orthodoxi':40 'republican':14 'thinkprogress':44 6800845 false true google blog newspoodle's posterous http://newspoodle.posterous.com/ OK http://newspoodle.posterous.com/report-at-least-40-gop-lawmakers-fail-a-princ 400222 Person congress Thu Nov 26 21:42:10 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Jack Franks, State Representative Proponent of frontier justice, Impeach Cobbler. Maria Rodriguez, Candidate for 8th Congressional District Long Grove Mayor, Wax Bean. Elliott Hartstein, Buffalo Grove Mayor ... Mark Kirk, Candidate for US Senate For Cap & 'us':43 '8th':26 'cap':46 'eye':3,49 'pot':8 'run':10 'wax':32 'bean':33 'jack':12 'keep':1,47 'kirk':40 'lake':5,51 'long':29 'luck':9 'mark':39 'amuck':11 'frank':13 'grove':30,37 'maria':22 'mayor':31,38 'senat':44 'state':14 'candid':24,41 'counti':6,52 'justic':19 'propon':16 'repres':15 'buffalo':36 'cobbler':21 'elliott':34 'illinoi':7,53 'impeach':20 'district':28 'frontier':18 'hartstein':35 'rodriguez':23 'congression':27 6800846 false true google blog Keeping an Eye on Lake County Illinois http://lakecountyeye.blogspot.com/ OK http://lakecountyeye.blogspot.com/2009/11/pot-luck-run-amuck.html 400222 Person congress Wed Nov 25 21:45:53 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Bob Inglis (R-SC), Mark Kirk (R-IL), Dean Heller (R-NV), Walter Jones (R-NC), Tim Johnson (R-IL), Mike Castle (R-DE), Howard Coble (R-NC), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tom Petri (R-WI), Fred Upton (R-MI), and Steve LaTourette (R-OH) supported a resolution opposing .. 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Mike Castle (R-DE) to run for the Senate, even though they have bucked conservative orthodoxy in the past. The real problem? The Wingers like Red State's Dipstick Dipstickson ... 'r':16,23 'de':24 'il':17 'red':46 'rep':12,19 'run':26 'buck':34 'even':30 'kirk':14 'like':45 'mark':13 'mike':20 'past':39 'r-de':22 'r-il':15 'real':41 'test':5 'want':8 'castl':21 'found':7 'senat':29 'state':47 'nation':9 'stupid':4,54 'though':31 'versus':2,52 'winger':44 'zandar':1,51 'conserv':35 'problem':42 'recruit':11 'dipstick':49 'orthodoxi':36 'republican':10 'dipstickson':50 6796378 false true google blog Zandar Versus The Stupid http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/ OK http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2009/11/tested-and-found-wanting.html 400222 Person senate Thu Nov 26 10:41:02 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 The seat is currently held by Sen. Roland Burris, who was appointed to the post by Blagojevich after the then-governor was arrested last year. The crowded GOP primary includes U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of Chicago's northern suburbs, ... 'dem':1 'gop':41 'old':7 'rep':45 'sen':19 'u.s':44 'blue':12,55 'held':17 'hill':11,54 'keep':4 'kirk':47 'last':37 'mark':46 'post':27 'seat':9,14 'year':38 'burri':21 'crowd':40 'obama':5 'polit':58 'senat':8 'worri':2 'arrest':36 'includ':43 'oldest':57 'roland':20 'suburb':52 'appoint':24 'capitol':10,53 'chicago':49 'current':16 'primari':42 'governor':34 'northern':51 'blagojevich':29 'then-governor':32 6796380 false true google blog Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political... http://www.capitolhillblue.com/ OK http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/20375 400222 Person senate Wed Nov 25 21:45:57 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...GOP Senate Candidate Rep. Mark Kirk thinkprogress.org 8 days ago — Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), a candidate for Senate in 2010, wrote a memo to Sarah Palin requesting that she endorse him during her vis '8':18 'r':33 '40':4 'il':34 'ago':20 'day':19 'gop':5,11 'rep':14,29 'vis':54 '2010':40 'blip':56 'fail':7 'kirk':16,31 'mark':15,30 'memo':43 'post':26 'r-il':32 'test':10 'least':3 'month':23 'palin':46 'sarah':45 'senat':12,38 'wrote':41 'candid':13,36 'endors':50 'lawmak':6 'puriti':9 'report':1,27 'beltway':55 'earlier':21 'request':47 'washington':25 'thinkprogress.org':17 6791339 false true daylife Beltway Blips http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/ OK http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/report-at-least-40-gop-lawmakers-fail-the-purity-test/ 400222 Person rep\. Wed Nov 25 21:45:53 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0600 2009 NORTHBROOK, Ill. - US Rep. Mark Kirk today released the following statement following news that the defense official charged with moving the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Thomson, Illinois – Deputy Assistant ... 'us':12,31 'bay':37 'ill':11 'rep':13 'kirk':3,15 'mark':14 'move':29 'news':22 'charg':27 'facil':34 'today':16 'assist':42 'defens':8,25 'deputi':41 'detent':33 'follow':19,21 'offici':9,26 'releas':17 'resign':6 'review':2,44 'illinoi':1,40,43 'thomson':39 'militari':32 'statement':4,20 'guantanamo':36 'northbrook':10 6791329 false true google blog Illinois Review http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/ OK http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2009/11/kirk-statement-on-resignation-of-defense-official-responsible-for-gitmo-move-to-thomson.html