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Hundreds of Wichitans stand in line to see Huckabee
One-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made small talk with hundreds of Wichitans this morning at a book-signing in College Hill.
President Obama has pulled funding for a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada that already has cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Moran, Tiahrt React to Health Care Bill Passage
Congressmen Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran Press Release Rep. Todd Tiahrt "Speaker Pelosi just delivered an early Christmas gift to President Obama tonight at a cost of $1.2 trillion to taxpayers.
Analysts: Ethics probe won't imperil Defense earmarks
The disclosure that seven House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members are being scrutinized for their ties to PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm that raised money for lawmakers and won earmarks for clients, is not expected to have a chilling effect on negotiations to reach agreement on a final fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill.
The document adds the names of Norm Dicks , D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; ranking subcommittee Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida and Todd Tiahrt , R-Kan . That list is only about 520 members short.
Former 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.
State Sen. Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, revealed Tuesday that she had decided not to enter the crowded field of candidates in the 4th District congressional campaign.
Big wins for GOP but mixed results for conservatives
GOP wins Tuesday in the governor races in New Jersey and Virginia boosted Republicans' hopes for a 2010 comeback.
Pro-Boeing House Members Investigated
WASHINGTON Last week, The Washington Post managed to surreptitiously stumble across a document revealing that several members of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.
Tiahrt To President: Make Tanker Competition Fair
Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt today along with Rep. Jay Inslee spearheaded a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to ensure a fair, open and transparent process in the Air Forcea s procurement of a new aerial refueling tanker.
Kan., Wash. back Boeing for tanker contract
With hundreds of new jobs at stake, Kansas officials are keeping an eye on the competition for an Air Force contract to build a new refueling plane.
Rep. Todd Tiahrt said Friday that he has discussed his defense-earmarking practices with the independent Office of Congressional Ethics but has "no reason whatsoever to believe that we are subject to a House ethics committee investigation." Tiahrt's acknowledgement of contact with the OCE, which has the authority to review complaints filed by ...
Boeing backers press Obama on $35B tanker contract
A bipartisan group of lawmakers who support Boeing in its bid for a $35 billion tanker contract want President Barack Obama to force the Air Force to include a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Airbus in its decision.
Internal Congressional Ethics Probe Revealed
Nearly half the members of the powerful House subcommittee that oversees more than $600 billion in Pentagon spending have been targeted by ethics investigators who are probing the conduct of a once-influential Washington lobbying firm, according to a confidential document that the House Ethics Committee says was inadvertently exposed.
CQ Politics' Senate Ratings: A Shift Toward Safety
In all but one of these changes, the already favored incumbent or incumbent party now looks like a shoo-in, as both Democratic and Republican strategists have winnowed down their target lists.
A case of cyberhacking led to the unofficial release Friday of the names of more than two dozen House members in connection with an ethics inquiry into defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling.The disclosure shows that the secret ethics probe is wider than originally believed.
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Northrop charges that tanker bidding skewed toward Boeing
A European aerospace company and its American partner charge that the Air Force is stacking the odds against them and favoring the Boeing Co.
A profile in courage, it isn't
As conservative activists scored a political scalp, mainstream Republicans wasted no time in grasping at the coat tails of Conservative Doug Hoffman.
Ethics Committes Probe Tiahrt, 6 Others
The Washington Post is reporting that Rep. Todd Tiahrt and six other members of the Appropriations subcommittee on defense are under investigation for directing federal funds to clients of influential lobby group.
Congressional leaders expressed concern Friday that the accidental disclosure of a list of more than two dozen members who faced allegations of misconduct could compromise future ethics inquiries and unfairly taint some lawmakers who had been cleared of old complaints.
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