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      <excerpt>...help provide that common sense conservative leadership in the Senate.&quot; Tiahrt is competing with fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran for the opportunity to replace Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican who entered the 2010 campaign for governor. Moran has</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...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. 435: Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, $186</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...to defeat Barbara Boxer in November.&#8221; DeMint&#8217;s political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund, has also endorsed Rep. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), with whom he shares a media consultant, and fellow arch-conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). De</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...terms &#8220;communism&#8221; and &#8220;socialism&#8221; to describe the Democratic Party, according to the Pittsburg Morning Sun. Tiahrt faces U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, for the GOP nomination to run for the Senate seat being left open by U.S. Sen. Sam Browback, </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...conservative Republicans, are on opposite sides in Kansas' Senate primary race. Last March, Sen. Tom Coburn endorsed Rep. Jerry Moran, who described Coburn as a &quot;conservative leader'' on issues such as spending. Last week, Sen. Jim Inhofe endorsed Rep. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...members of congress who may be the subject of a probe. The Wichita congressman is in a GOP primary battle with Rep. Jerry Moran for the U.S. Senate nomination next year. The Post obtained a supposedly secret document from congressional ethics panel that</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...industry,&quot; he said.  Wasinger is running in the August 2010 Republican primary for the Congressional seat now held by U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays.     Printer-friendly version Leave a comment! Alert us to inappropriate comments Notice about comments: </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...seat in the Wichita-based 4th District that Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt left open to run next year for the Senate. Rep. Jerry Moran of Kansas&#8217; 1st District, Tiahrt&#8217;s primary rival for the Republican Senate nomination, also endorsed Hoffman on Thursd</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>When Politico blogger Ben Smith heard that Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, was among the more than two dozen House members who are the subject of an ethics inquiry, he wondered whether it meant Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Hays, will be a senator ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>in U.S. Representative, U.S. Senate. KS-04 Congressman Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, picked up a key endorsement in the race to fill Sam Brownback&amp;#39;s seat in the United States Senate. Former United States Attorney General under President Bush, ...  Last month</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Representative Jerry Moran Representative Lynn Jenkins Representative Dennis W. Moore Representative Todd Tiahrt Senator Sam Brownback Senator Pat Roberts Representative Ed Whitfield Representative Brett Guthrie ...</excerpt>
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