Roberts, Pat Sen 9%

</font><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">January 4, 2019, Roberts announced that he would not seek reelection in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Kansas" title="2020 United States Senate election in Kansas" style="font-weight: 400; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2020</a><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He was succeeded by Representative </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Marshall_(politician)" title="Roger Marshall (politician)" style="font-weight: 400; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Marshall</a></font></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">one of 4 signers of DC ltr that torpedo'd ctw</font></h2><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">kansas pesticides, took lots of oil $</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Roberts played a key role in investigating intelligence failures leading up to the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="">2003 invasion of Iraq</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">. </span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However, Alexandrovna added, "what was said to be an effort to protect the United States became a tool by which the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (R-KS) ensured there was no serious investigation into how the administration </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooked_intelligence" title="Cooked intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">fixed the intelligence</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that took the United States to </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">war in Iraq</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or the fabricated documents used as evidence to do so."</span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/pat-roberts">https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/pat-roberts</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9%</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no wait period?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Former GOP Sen. Pat Roberts Joins Lobbying Firm Capitol Counsel</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Firm’s clients include NFL,<b> Edison Electric, PhRMA</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kansan retired from Congress after 40 years</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>February 25, 2021 </b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Megan R. Wilson</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former Sen. Pat Roberts, who retired in January, has joined top lobbying shop Capitol Counsel.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Kansas Republican will serve as a senior counselor to the firm’s clients, offering “his insights and advice about legislative strategy and his deep understanding of the executive branch,” Capitol Counsel said in a release.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Capitol Counsel is a top firm by revenue, earning $19 million in 2020 from clients including Intuit Inc., the National Football League, Walmart Inc., the American Health Care Association, Edison Electric Institute, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Retired Sen. Pat Roberts has joined the lobbying firm of Capitol Counsel</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roberts served on Capitol Hill for 40 years. He was first elected to the House in 1980 and then to the Senate in 1996. Ethics rules bar him from lobbying either chamber for two years.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During his last term in the Senate, he served as chair of the Agriculture Committee </span>and also served on the committees on Finance; Rules; and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I have been honored to serve the citizens of Kansas and of the United States and look forward to this new chapter,” Roberts said in a statement. “I believe positive policy achievements are possible with hard work and good will. I look forward to joining the team.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“He embodies the no-nonsense, authentic approach that made him a respected statesman. His unmatched experience offers our clients best-in-class strategic advice, and we are honored to have him join our team,” Shannon Finley, a partner at the firm, said in a statement.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>To contact the reporter on this story: Megan R. Wilson in Washington at mwilson@bgov.com</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bennett Roth at broth@bgov.com; Kyle Trygstad at ktrygstad@bgov.com</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.ecowatch.com/koch-brothers-paris-agreement-2430226599.html</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paris Exit Was 'Victory Paid and Carried Out' by Republican Party for the Koch Brothers</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican senators who sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week urging the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement received more than $10 million dollars in campaign funds from fossil fuel interests.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-page letter was signed by a number of Republican heavyweights from coal/gas/oil-rich states, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Ted Cruz of Texas.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Guardian calculated that the 22 senators received a total of $10,694,284 from oil, gas and coal money in just five years. (See the breakdown below.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, that sum does not even come close to the amount of undisclosed funds coming from the deep pockets of Charles and David Koch's coal, oil and gas conglomerate, Koch Industries, and other outside groups.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the Guardian explains:</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Visible donations to Republicans from those industries exceeded donations to Democrats in the 2016 election cycle by a ratio of 15-to-1, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that does not include so-called dark money passed from oil interests such as Koch industries to general slush funds to re-elect Republicans such as the Senate leadership fund.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"At least $90m in untraceable money has been funneled to Republican candidates from oil, gas and coal interests in the past three election cycles, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, shared recently his views on Trump's climate walkout.In an interview with Bloomberg Surveillance, Sachs referenced the senators' letter and specifically cast blame on the billionaire oil barons for pulling the strings of Republican party leaders such as McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who both supported exiting the Paris accord.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is the victory paid and carried out for 20 years by two people, David and Charles Koch," Sachs said. "They have bought and purchased the top of the Republican party. Trump is a tool in this."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Notably, most of the Republican signatories of the letter do not support the belief that human activity contributes to climate change.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts explained why he thinks his Republican colleagues do not believe in the science of climate change.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This Conservative party in the United States is funded by the Koch brothers [and] it's funded by the coal industry," Markey said. "[They] insist that Scott Pruitt—the Attorney General of Oklahoma that actually sued the EPA 19 times on clean air, clean water, soot, mercury issues—becomes the head of the EPA in our country."</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 22 Republican signatories' funding from Big Oil, Gas and Coal in the past three election cycles (2012, 2014 and 2016):</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Inhofe, Oklahoma</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $465,950 + Coal: $63,600 = $529,550</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barrasso, Wyoming</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $458,466 + Coal: $127,356 = $585,822</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitch McConnell, Kentucky</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,180,384 + Coal: $361,700 = $1,542,084</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Cornyn, Texas</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $1,101,456 + Coal: $33,050 = $1,134,506</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roy Blunt, Missouri</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $353,864 + Coal: $96,000 = $449,864</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Wicker, Mississippi</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $198,816 + Coal: $25,376 = $224,192</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Enzi, Wyoming</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $211,083 + Coal: $63,300 = $274,383</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Crapo, Idaho</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $110,250 + Coal: $26,756 = $137,006</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim Risch, Idaho</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $123,850 + Coal: $25,680 = $149,530</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thad Cochran, Mississippi</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $276,905 + Coal: $15,000 = $291,905</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Rounds, South Dakota</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $201,900 + Coal: none = $201,900</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rand Paul, Kentucky</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $170,215 + Coal: $82,571 = $252,786</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Boozman, Arkansas</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $147,930 + Coal: $2,000 = $149,930</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Shelby, Alabama</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $60,150 + $2,500 = $62,650</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Luther Strange, Alabama (Appointed in 2017, running in 2017 special election)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orrin Hatch, Utah</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & gas: $446,250 + Coal: $25,000 = $471,250</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Lee, Utah</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Scott, South Carolina</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Pat Roberts, Kansas</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ntbcw robertson</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Charles Patrick Roberts</b> (born April 20, 1936) is a retired American journalist and politician of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> who served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Senator</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas</a> from 1997 to 2021. Prior to this, Roberts served 8 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1997.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,Kansas" title="Topeka, Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Topeka, Kansas</a>, Roberts is a graduate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_State_University" title="Kansas State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas State University</a>. He served as a First Lieutenant in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Marine Corps</a> and worked as a newspaper reporter before entering politics in the late 1960s. He was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a> in 1980 to succeed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congressional_District_of_Kansas" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Congressional District of Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1st District</a> Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sebelius" title="Keith Sebelius" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Keith Sebelius</a>, for whom he had worked. He served eight terms in the House, including one as chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Agriculture" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Agriculture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Agriculture Committee</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. On the Intelligence Committee, he was responsible for an investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>. He was the dean of Kansas's congressional delegation and Chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition_and_Forestry" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee</a> (ANF). He is the first person to chair both the House and the Senate agriculture committees.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On January 4, 2019, Roberts announced that he would not seek reelection in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_Senate_election_in_Kansas" title="2020 United States Senate election in Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2020</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He was succeeded by Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Marshall(politician)" title="Roger Marshall (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roger Marshall</a> of Great Bend on January 3, 2021.</font></p><div class="toclimit-3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2><span class="toctogglespan" style=""><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Early_life,education,and_early_political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life, education, and early political career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#U.S.House_of_Representatives(1981%E2%80%931997)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1997)</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Committee_assignments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Sponsored_Legislation_that_became_Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sponsored Legislation that became Law</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#U.S.Senate(1997%E2%80%932021)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">U.S. Senate (1997–2021)</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Elections_2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Elections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Tenure</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Agriculture_Committee_attendance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Agriculture Committee attendance</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Sponsored_legislation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sponsored legislation</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Committee_assignments_2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Committee assignments</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Caucuses" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Caucuses</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Political_positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political positions</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Social_issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Social issues</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Gun_law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gun law</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Foreign_policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Foreign policy</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-33" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-34" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Electoral history</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-35" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#Notes_and_references" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notes and references</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-37" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_early_political_career"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life,education,and_early_political_career">Early life, education, and early political career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life, education, and early political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts was born on April 20, 1936, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,Kansas" title="Topeka, Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Topeka, Kansas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> the son of Ruth B. (née Patrick) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.Wesley_Roberts" title="C. Wesley Roberts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">C. Wesley Roberts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published_sources" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on a self-published source. (August 2018)">self-published source?</span></a></i>]</sup> His father served for four months as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Republican_National_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Republican National Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chairman of the Republican National Committee</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>. Roberts's great-grandfather, J.W. Roberts, was the founder of the <i>Oskaloosa Independent</i>, which is the second-oldest newspaper in Kansas.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts graduated in 1954 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holton_High_School" title="Holton High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holton High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holton,Kansas" title="Holton, Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holton, Kansas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Printing2014_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Printing2014-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> He went on to earn a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">B.A.</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Journalism</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_State_University" title="Kansas State University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas State University</a> in 1958,<sup id="cite_ref-Printing2014_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Printing2014-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> where he became a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Kappa_Alpha" title="Pi Kappa Alpha" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pi Kappa Alpha</a> fraternity.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> From 1958 to 1962, he served as an officer in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Marine Corps</a>, achieving the rank of First Lieutenant.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Roberts was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reporter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">reporter</a> and editor for several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona</a> newspapers between 1962 and 1967,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> when he joined the staff of Republican Kansas Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Carlson" title="Frank Carlson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Carlson</a>. In 1969, he became administrative assistant to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congressional_District_of_Kansas" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Congressional District of Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kansas's 1st District</a> Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sebelius" title="Keith Sebelius" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Keith Sebelius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="U.S.House_of_Representatives.281981.E2.80.931997.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.House_of_Representatives(1981–1997)">U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1997)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h2><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C49627(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none" /></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_Contact_Sheet_C49627(cropped).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" magnify-clip-ltr.svg="magnify-clip-ltr.svg" e="e" display="display" block="block" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" white-space="white-space" nowrap="nowrap" overflow="overflow" hidden="hidden" width="width" height="height" user-select="user-select" none="none"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts with </font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> in 1988</font></div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); padding: 3px; background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections" style="">
Elections</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Elections" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span><span style="text-align: left;">al portrait of Pat Roberts</span></font></div></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Keith Sebelius announced his retirement, Roberts easily won the Republican primary, which was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantamount_to_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Tantamount to election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">tantamount to election</a> in the heavily Republican 1st District. He was re-elected seven times without serious difficulty, never receiving less than 60 percent of the vote; in 1988, he ran unopposed.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts served as the chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Agriculture" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Agriculture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Agriculture Committee</a> from 1995 to 1997.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sponsored_Legislation_that_became_Law">Sponsored Legislation that became Law</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Sponsored Legislation that became Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/4302" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 99-624</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_David_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight David Eisenhower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dwight David Eisenhower</a> Centennial Commission Act</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/house-bill/3048" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 101-353</a>: To designate the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, animal health research building in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Center,Nebraska" title="Clay Center, Nebraska" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clay Center, Nebraska</a>, as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_D.Smith" title="Virginia D. Smith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Virginia D. Smith</a> Animal Health Research Laboratory"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/2854" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 104-107</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Agriculture_Improvement_and_Reform_Act_of_1996" title="Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="U.S.Senate.281997.E2.80.932021.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="U.S.Senate(1997–2021)">U.S. Senate (1997–2021)....</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tenure">Tenure</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite being the longest-serving member of the Kansas delegation, Roberts spent the first 14 years of his Senate career as Kansas's <i>junior</i> senator, since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback" title="Sam Brownback" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sam Brownback</a> had taken office on election day 1996 to finish out Dole's term. However, after Brownback gave up his seat to make a successful run for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Kansas" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">governor</a>, Roberts became Kansas's senior senator.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts was a senior member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate_Committee_on_Armed_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate Armed Services Committee</a>, chairing the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. This subcommittee oversaw the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military" class="mw-redirect" title="United States military" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">military</a>'s work in the area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_security" title="Homeland security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">homeland security</a> and the efforts to prevent proliferation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" class="mw-redirect" title="Weapons of mass destruction" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After winning the 2008 Presidential election, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daschle" title="Tom Daschle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Daschle</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="United States Secretary of Health and Human Services" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of Health and Human Services</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> In February, after Daschle offered a public apology for his failure to pay income taxes on use of a luxury car and driver, Roberts declined to state his opinion of Daschle's explanation and stated that sentiment for the nomination in Kansas was "not especially good".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Daschle subsequently withdrew.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2009, Roberts was one of fourteen senators to vote against a procedural move that essentially guaranteed a major expansion of a national service corps. The bill was estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to cost at least an outlay for the fiscal year 2010 of $418<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>million toward around $5.7<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>billion from 2010 through 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2009, President Obama nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sonia Sotomayor</a> for Supreme Court Associate Justice. Roberts had previously voted against Sotomayor with twenty-eight other Republicans when she was nominated for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In an interview shortly after the nomination, Roberts was asked if he would vote for Sotomayor to avoid being called a "bigot" and answered, "I’m a Marine and nothing much scares me. That's not going to be a consideration in my vote." Roberts stated his reasons for voting against Sotomayor in 1998 in a separate interview, and that he did "not plan to vote for her". Roberts's comments were significant for his being the first Republican to announce how he would vote on the Sotomayor nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Sotomayor was confirmed in August in a vote of 68 to 31 with Roberts voting against the nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">President Obama's top domestic agenda at the start of his presidency was to ensure health insurance for all Americans, which entailed Democrats in Congress scaling back their proposals in attempts to trim tens of billions of dollars a year from existing health programs. Roberts pushed back against a proposal by the Obama administration to use $600<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>billion of Medicare and Medicaid savings to pay for health care legislation, saying, "More cuts to Medicare? Let’s not do that right now, please."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts rose to the Chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry#Historical_committee_rosters" title="United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on ANF</a> in the 2014-2016 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="114th Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">114th Congress</a>. He continued to chair the Committee for the duration of his tenure in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="115th Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">115th Congress</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/116th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="116th Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">116th Congress</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June of 2016, the "Roberts GMO bill" which had come out of the Committee on ANF was proposed as an amendment to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Law_114-214" title="Public Law 114-214" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Law 114-214</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitch McConnell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> Public Law 114-214 was also known to opponents as the DARK Act, for "Deny Americans the Right to Know" about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMO_foods" class="mw-redirect" title="GMO foods" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GMO foods</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-labelit_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-labelit-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ecow_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-ecow-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-brodwin_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-brodwin-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2019, when asked about comments by House Agriculture Committee Chairman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Peterson" title="Collin Peterson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Collin Peterson</a> regarding the passage of the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Pesticide Registration Enhancement Act, Roberts stated his support for both, and in passing child nutrition reauthorization legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts served as chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D.Eisenhower_Memorial" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial</a> Commission, dedicating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_memorials_of_the_United_States" title="List of national memorials of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">memorial</a> on September 17, 2020, after many years of planning.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In September 2020, with less than two months to the next presidential election, Roberts supported an immediate vote on President Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a>. Roberts argued that it was the "Senate’s constitutional duty to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court". Previously in March 2016, around seven months before the next presidential election, Roberts argued that President Obama's Supreme Court nominee should not be considered by the Senate, as the process would be "rushed", and that this was "about giving the American people and the next president a role in selecting the next Supreme Court justice" via the upcoming presidential election.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Agriculture_Committee_attendance">Agriculture Committee attendance</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=13&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Agriculture Committee attendance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">During his tenure in the Senate, Roberts missed 130 (65%) of his Agriculture Committee meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> The Agriculture Committee is responsible for farm, nutrition and forestry issues.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Controversy">Controversy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=14&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While participating in negotiations over the Republican-sponsored <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Healthcare_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="American Healthcare Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Healthcare Act</a>, Roberts was asked by Alice Ollstein if he supported a proposed revision to mandated coverage in the bill. He responded: "I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup> This comment was widely condemned.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> Roberts subsequently apologized.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sponsored_legislation">Sponsored legislation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1718" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 108-144</a>: A bill to designate the facility of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Postal Service</a> located at 3710 West 73rd Terrace in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Village,Kansas" title="Prairie Village, Kansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Prairie Village, Kansas</a>, as the "Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B.Pearson" title="James B. 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Pearson</a> Post Office"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2136" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 108-207</a>: An original bill to extend the final report date and termination date of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Terrorist_Attacks_Upon_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States</a>, to provide additional funding for the Commission, and for other purposes</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/643" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;">Wichita</a> Project Equus Beds Division Authorization Act of 2005</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1616" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Public Law 115-60</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bob Dole</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Gold_Medal" title="Congressional Gold Medal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congressional Gold Medal</a> Act</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2040" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Senate Republican Conference</font></a></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_positions">Political positions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=18&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_issues">Social issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=19&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Social issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">anti-abortion</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup> opposes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">same-sex marriage</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Pat_Roberts_on_the_Issues_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Pat_Roberts_on_the_Issues-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> and denied Americans the right to know about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMO_foods" class="mw-redirect" title="GMO foods" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GMO foods</a> as part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Law_114-214" title="Public Law 114-214" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Law 114-214</a>.</font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Healthcare_and_Obamacare">Healthcare and Obamacare</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=20&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Healthcare and Obamacare" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> in December 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> and he voted against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reconciliation_Act_of_2010" title="Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> In September 2017, Roberts supported the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill. When interviewed about why he supported it, Roberts repeatedly refused to say why he thought the bill was good, and avoided speaking about the bill's policy contents. Instead, he said he supported the bill because it was the last best chance to repeal Obamacare.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="GMO_foods_law">GMO foods law</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=21&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: GMO foods law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts introduced a biotech labeling and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMO_foods" class="mw-redirect" title="GMO foods" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GMO foods</a> bill on February 19, 2016. The bill aims to establish a standardized voluntary labeling plan that would block the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vermont</a> from enacting its mandatory genetic engineering labeling law on July<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>1 of that year. In addition it seeks to promote "consumer acceptance of agricultural biotechnology". The Roberts GMO bill was supported by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Grocery Manufacturers of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Grocery Manufacturers of America</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Food%26_Agriculture,Biotechnology_Innovation_Organization&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Food & Agriculture, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Food & Agriculture, Biotechnology Innovation Organization</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Bakers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Bakers Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Bakers Association</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Dairy_Foods_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International Dairy Foods Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">International Dairy Foods Association</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snack_Food_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Snack Food Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Snack Food Association</a> amongst others in the face of the opposition for more than a decade of more than 90% of the public.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup> It was noted that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World Health Organization</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Medical_Association" title="American Medical Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Medical Association</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Academy of Sciences</a> and "the concerted advocacy of 107 concerned Nobel laureates" all were in favour of GMO foods. The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fait_accompli" class="mw-redirect" title="Fait accompli" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fait accompli</a></i> fallacy was used by a writer for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic" title="National Geographic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Geographic</a></i> to conclude her article in favour of the Roberts bill,<sup id="cite_ref-natgeogmo_41-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-natgeogmo-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup> whereas labeling of GMO food is mandated in at least 64 countries, including most European countries, China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-labelit_19-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-labelit-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The bill was engrossed into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Law_114-214" title="Public Law 114-214" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Public Law 114-214</a>. At the time, Vermont governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin" title="Peter Shumlin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter Shumlin</a> said that "For a Republican-controlled Congress that continually argues for states’ rights to act to take away Vermonters’ right to know what is in their food is the height of hypocrisy and a sad statement on the power of special interests in Congress." An environmental advocacy organization said that "the food lobby spent over $100 million in the fight to block GMO labeling in 2015".<sup id="cite_ref-natgeogmo_41-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-natgeogmo-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Obama signed the bill into law on July 29, 2016.</font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Environment">Environment</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Roberts worked to secure $15<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>million for research on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration" title="Carbon sequestration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">carbon sequestration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[42]</a></sup> On the topic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">global warming</a>, Roberts has said, "There's no question there's some global warming, but I'm not sure what it means. A lot of this is condescending elitism."</span><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts voted to confirm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Norton" title="Gale Norton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gale Norton</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secretary of the Interior</a>, to exclude oil and gas <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokestack" class="mw-redirect" title="Smokestack" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">smokestacks</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(element)" title="Mercury (element)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">mercury</a> regulations, and to reclassify the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a> (EPA) as a Cabinet department.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In 2012, Roberts introduced an amendment that would open up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</a> to drilling for oil and approve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_XL_Pipeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Keystone XL Pipeline" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Keystone XL Pipeline</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In 2017, Roberts was one of 22 senators to sign a letter<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[46]</a></sup> to President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> urging the President to have the United States withdraw from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Paris Agreement</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> According to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics" title="Center for Responsive Politics" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Responsive Politics</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Roberts has received over $415,000 from oil, gas and coal interests since 2012.</span><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=23&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2014, Roberts introduced the Opportunities Created At the Local Level Act. The bill would allow states to freely choose without federal interference their own education standards, testing and curricula.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2019, Roberts was one of twenty senators to sponsor the Employer Participation in Repayment Act, enabling employers to contribute up to $5,250 to the student loans of their employees as a means of granting employees relief and incentivizing applicants to apply to jobs with employers who implement the policy.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Domestic_security">Domestic security</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=24&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Domestic security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts supports the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act" title="Patriot Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Patriot Act</a>, and the President's authority for warrantless surveillance.<sup id="cite_ref-Pat_Roberts_on_the_Issues_31-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Pat_Roberts_on_the_Issues-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup> Roberts was the only senator blocking the nomination of Army Secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fanning" title="Eric Fanning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Eric Fanning</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup> Roberts's refusal to lift his hold on the nomination until President Obama promised to never move anyone from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth" title="Fort Leavenworth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Leavenworth</a> drew criticism on the Senate floor from Armed Services Committee Chairman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John McCain</a>, who noted that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Army" title="United States Secretary of the Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of the Army</a> has no control over the detainees.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Intelligence_program">Intelligence program</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=25&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Intelligence program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts_Intelligence_Scholars_Program" title="Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The 2004 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Authorization_Act" title="Intelligence Authorization Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Intelligence Authorization Act</a> saw the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts_Intelligence_Scholars_Program" title="Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program</a>. The program links undergraduate and graduate students with US security and intelligence agencies" by providing funding to selected US students entering university, in return for a commitment to join the agency for at least 18 months on graduation.<sup id="cite_ref-counterpunch_53-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-counterpunch-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup> PRISP is a decentralized program which funds students through various intelligence agencies.<sup id="cite_ref-CPMar05_54-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-CPMar05-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Investigation_into_pre-war_intelligence_on_Iraq">Investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Roberts was responsible for the committee's investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2003 invasion of Iraq</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The first half of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_of_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> was released on July 9, 2004. The second half, according to language voted on by the full Committee, consists of five parts including: whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information; the postwar findings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and weapons programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments; prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq; any intelligence activities relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) and the Office of Special Plans within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and the use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress (INC).</span></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Immigration">Immigration</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=27&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Immigration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House of Representatives</a> at the time, Roberts voted against Ronald Reagan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986" title="Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1986 immigration limited amnesty bill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2018, Roberts was one of thirteen Republican senators to sign a letter to Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeff Sessions</a> requesting a moratorium on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy" title="Trump administration family separation policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump administration family separation policy</a> while Congress drafted legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup> He is in favor of increasing border patrols to reduce undocumented immigrant flow.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Net_neutrality">Net neutrality</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May 2018, Roberts voted against a bill that would reinstate net neutrality rules and thereby overturn the FCC's repeal via a law authorizing Congress to reverse regulatory actions by a simple majority vote</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Taxes">Taxes</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=29&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Taxes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2019, Roberts was a cosponsor of a bipartisan bill to undo a drafting error in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that mandated stores and restaurants to have to write off the costs of renovations over the course of 39 years via authorizing businesses to immediately deduct the entirety of costs of renovations.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="United_States_Postal_Service">United States Postal Service</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts&action=edit&section=30&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: United States Postal Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2019, Roberts was a cosponsor of a bipartisan resolution led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Peters" title="Gary Peters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gary Peters</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Moran" title="Jerry Moran" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerry Moran</a> that <b>opposed privatization of the United States Postal Service</b> (USPS), citing the USPS as an establishment that was self-sustained and noting concerns that a potential privatization could cause higher prices and reduced services for customers of USPS with a particular occurrence in rural communities.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_law">Gun law</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Roberts has an "A" rating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Rifle Association</a> (NRA) for his consistent, ongoing support of pro-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun" title="Gun" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gun</a> legislation. </b>The NRA endorsed Roberts in the 2014 election; the NRA-Political Victory Fund chairman said, "Pat is the only ally and battle-tested candidate in this race who has consistently protected our Second Amendment freedoms."<sup id="cite_ref-NRAPVF1004G_61-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-NRAPVF1004G-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup> Since 1998, the NRA has provided Roberts $23,800 in donations.<sup id="cite_ref-Kraske1004G_62-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Kraske1004G-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One month after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting" title="Orlando nightclub shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Orlando nightclub shooting</a> Roberts voted for two Republican-backed proposals on gun policy: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chuck Grassley</a>'s amendment to increase funding for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_check" title="Background check" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">background checks</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Cornyn</a>'s policy that would have put a 72-hour hold on any terrorist suspect buying a gun. He voted against both the Democrat's policies, including the Feinstein Amendment, which banned suspected terrorists from buying guns.<sup id="cite_ref-Tate1004G_63-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Tate1004G-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup> Roberts voted against the Manchin-Toomey amendment to expand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_check" title="Background check" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">background checks</a> for gun purchases.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the immediate aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting" title="2017 Las Vegas shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2017 Las Vegas shooting</a>, Roberts said it was "too early" to discuss gun policy change.<sup id="cite_ref-FP1004G_65-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-FP1004G-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In February 2018, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting" title="Stoneman Douglas High School shooting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stoneman Douglas High School shooting</a> in which 17 were killed, Roberts came out in favor of age limits on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15" class="mw-redirect" title="AR-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AR-15</a>, the assault rifle used at the high school shooting. Roberts said, "Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15. I don't know why anybody would want an AR-15 unless they're going to take one out on the shooting range."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_66-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-:0-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt20180225_67-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-nyt20180225-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[67]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2019, Roberts was one of thirty-one Republican senators to cosponsor the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, a bill introduced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornyn" title="John Cornyn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Cornyn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ted Cruz</a> which would grant individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state the right to exercise this right in any other state with concealed carry laws while concurrently abiding by that state's laws.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In December 2010, Roberts voted against the ratification of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START" title="New START" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">New START</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[70]</a></sup> a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian Federation</a> obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads as well as 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years along with providing a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I" title="START I" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">START I</a> expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.</span><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In September 2016, Roberts was one of thirty-four senators to sign a letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a> advocating for the United States using "all available tools to dissuade Russia from continuing its airstrikes in Syria that are clearly not in our interest" and saying there should be clear enforcement by the US of the airstrikes violating "a legally binding Security Council Resolution".<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In June 2017, Roberts voted against a resolution by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rand Paul</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy" title="Chris Murphy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Murphy</a> that would block President Trump's $510<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>million sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia which made up a portion of the $110<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span>billion arms sale Trump announced during his visit to Saudi Arabia the previous year.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[74]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2018, Roberts voted to table a resolution spearheaded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bernie Sanders</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy" title="Chris Murphy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chris Murphy</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lee(American_politician)" title="Mike Lee (American politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mike Lee</a> that would have required President Trump to withdraw American troops either in or influencing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yemen</a> within the next thirty days unless they were combating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al-Qaeda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[75]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In July 2019, Roberts was one of sixteen Republican senators to send a letter to Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought" title="Russell Vought" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russell Vought</a>, Acting White House Chief of Staff <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney" title="Mick Mulvaney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mick Mulvaney</a>, and Treasury Secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Mnuchin" title="Steven Mnuchin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Steven Mnuchin</a> encouraging them to work with them to prevent a continuing resolution "for FY 2020 that would delay the implementation of the President's National Defense Strategy (NDS) and increase costs" and that the year long continuing resolution suggested by administration officials would render the Defense Department "incapable of increasing readiness, recapitalizing our force, or rationalizing funding to align with the National Defense Strategy (NDS)".<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts married Franki Fann in 1969. The couple has three adult children: David, Ashleigh, and Anne-Wesley.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roberts lives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alexandria, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[78]</a></sup> <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a></i> has reported that the house Roberts claims as his residence in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City,Kansas" title="Dodge City, Kansas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dodge City, Kansas</a>, is actually owned and occupied by campaign contributors C. Duane and Phyllis Ross.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Out_of_Dodge_79-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Out_of_Dodge-79" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts#cite_note-Out_of_Dodge-79" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">79]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Electoral_history"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Electoral history</font></span></h2><div><span class="mw-headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/30/senate-dark-act-gmo-label/</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">D<span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">espite Vermont’s historic </span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=label+gmo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; line-height: 25.2px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO labeling</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> bill coming into effect July 1, Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and ranking member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) are vigorously lobbying to get their industry-approved </span><a href="https://ecowatch.com/2016/06/23/dark-act-compromise-gmo-label/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; line-height: 25.2px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GMO labeling deal</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> passed before Congress’s summer break.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">img</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to POLITICO’s <a href="http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-agriculture/2016/06/lobbying-blitz-for-gmo-labeling-bill-215082" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Morning Agriculture blog</a>, the Senate Ag leaders are using “every part of the lobbying playbook,” with “letters being sent, staffs briefed, reports and FDA assessments flaunted, and farmers and consumers are being encouraged to inundate lawmakers with phone calls.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts has been reportedly distributing a flier touting that the bill will nullify the “dangerous”<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/08/vermont-passes-first-no-strings-attached-ge-food-labeling-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Vermont law</a> and stop other states from passing similar legislation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">img</font></p><div class="rve" data-content-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px;"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" data-tweet-id="747793598549155841" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px;"><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="background: 0px 0px; direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4; white-space: initial; position: relative;"><div class="resize-sensor" style="position: absolute; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">genetically engineered</a> ingredients until the start of 2017.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A confident Stabenow told POLITICO that enough votes will be secured for the deal to move forward, while Roberts said, “We had 46 [Republicans] last time, and we’re hoping to get a few more.” Last March, the Senate <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/16/senate-rejects-dark-act-gmo-labeling/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">voted down</a> Roberts’s previous bill that would have prohibited states from requiring genetically modified food labels. The bill required 60 votes for passage but failed 48-49.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roberts said his latest GMO bill will be the first order of business next week and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will set up a <a href="http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cloture_vrd.htm" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">cloture</a> vote, according to this tweet from Agripulse senior editor Philip Brasher....</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.alternet.org/food/sanders-takes-stand-against-senate-bill-would-undermine-vermonts-new-gmo-labeling-law-video</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">leg</font><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">slators appear ruthless in keeping Americans in the dark about what they eat—literally. While 90 percent of Americans support mandatory GMO labeling, H.R. 1599—otherwise known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or<b> DARK Act—introduced by Sen. Pat Roberts, </b>would have "preempted states from requiring the labeling of GMO foods," according to </span><a href="http://www.justlabelit.org/dark-act/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just Label It</a><span style="line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></p><p class="print-title" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-truth-about-the-republican-war-on-caterpillars/255522/">http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-truth-about-the-republican-war-on-caterpillars/255522/</a></b></font></p><p class="print-title" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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In a statement widely taken as a metaphor, the chairman of the Republican National Committee on Thursday <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-05/priebus-says-gender-battle-as-fictonal-as-caterpillar-war" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'255522'">said</a> his party is no more trying to hurt the nation's females than it is larval butterflies and moths.

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"If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream

media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on

caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars," Reince Priebus

told Bloomberg Television, in response to a question about the party's

supposed "war on women." "It's a fiction."

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But the war on caterpillars and other innocent insects, it turns out, is not a fiction at all.

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Under the guise of aiding the agriculture industry, Republicans and

their allies in Washington have been waging a long-running campaign to

prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting bug-killing

pesticides. Last year, <b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas </span><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/06/113841/some-fear-that-epa-is-going-too.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'255522'">authored a letter</a>,

</b>signed by several others in his party, calling on Democrats to "address

the continued regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection

Agency that is a growing concern of farmers, ranchers, foresters and

agribusinesses throughout the nation" by bringing up their bill to ease

pesticide regulations. This obvious attempt to run roughshod over the

rights of many-legged herbivores everywhere was laughably justified as a

matter of "public health as we enter mosquito season."

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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a similar gesture of outrageous insensitivity to the feelings of

Creepy-Crawly-Americans, some conservatives also want to get the

controversial insecticide DDT <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/09/08/conservatives-blame-environmentalists-for-bedbugs.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'2',r'255522'">unbanned by the EPA</a>. The free-market<b> Competitive Enterprise Institute </b>runs a website, <a href="http://rachelwaswrong.org/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'3',r'255522'">RachelWasWrong.org</a>, devoted to beating the drum for bringing back DDT, whose banning it terms the "dangerous legacy" of Rachel Carson's <em>Silent Spring</em>. But for the liberals and their "tree-hugging political correctness," one NewsMax commentator <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/08/25/nyt-article-admits-ddt-ban-cause-bedbug-outbreak" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'4',r'255522'">wrote</a>, bedbugs -- largely voiceless in this whole debate -- might be eradicated.

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Republicans may claim that they have no anti-caterpillar agenda -- that

they're just trying to protect people and plants from being bitten, that

they're merely the victims of a liberal media that sympathizes with the

radical bugs'-rights lobby. But the truth is clear, and it's nothing

new: Republicans just don't care about caterpillars.

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Need any more proof? How about this: Tom DeLay, the onetime leader of

the GOP House majority, began his career as an exterminator.

</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>---</b></font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref's:http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article24630016.html</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">WASHINGTON — Barry Bushue often uses pesticides on his 70-acre farm

east of Portland, Ore., where he raises strawberries, raspberries,

tomatoes and pumpkins.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "Managing for pests is constant and critical," Bushue, the president

of the Oregon Farm Bureau, told Congress during a hearing this week.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Many farmers across the nation want to make sure that federal

regulators don't make it more difficult to spread chemicals on their

land.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> On Capitol Hill, those farmers have found allies in Republicans and

some Democrats who are working to ease the regulations and strip some

power from the Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees the use

of pesticides to control insects, diseases and weeds. Earlier this year,

the House of Representatives passed legislation that would negate the

need for additional permits when spraying for pests near bodies of

water.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The back and forth speaks to broader tension between some Republicans and the Obama administration over environmental policy.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Environmental policy experts say the GOP opposition stems from

concerns that the Democratic administration is enforcing regulations

more strictly than the George W. Bush administration did. The pushback

against the EPA also can be seen in the ongoing fight by lawmakers over

greenhouse gas emissions. In April, the GOP-controlled House passed a

measure that would bar the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, a day

after the Senate defeated the measure.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A group of Republican senators — led by Pat Roberts of Kansas and

including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Saxby Chambliss

of Georgia and Thad Cochran of Mississippi — recently sent a letter to

Sen. Deborah Stabenow, D-Mich., the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture

Committee, calling on her to bring up the Senate version of the

pesticide regulation bill.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "We write to address the continued regulatory overreach by the

Environmental Protection Agency that is a growing concern of farmers,

ranchers, foresters and agribusinesses throughout the nation," the

Republican senators wrote. "Agriculture producers, forestry interests,

public health officials, states, municipalities and other impacted

stakeholders have told us they are in imminent need of certainty for

what may be required of them in the near future. State and local

officials have made clear that this is not merely a regulatory burden

but could endanger public health as we enter mosquito season."</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Efforts to rein in the EPA have run into serious opposition from

environmentalists, who say that farmers and the lawmakers who represent

them are trying to find ways around complying with the Clean Water Act.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "It's disingenuous," said Mae Wu, a staff attorney in the health and

environment program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Agriculture experts worry that the heavy use of pesticides has led

to water pollution so widespread that fish species have been killed off.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "All that farming in the corn and soybean belts, which have our

heaviest total pesticides use, makes its ways into the Mississippi

River, flowing out right through New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico,

where we have a large dead zone," said John Reganold, a professor of

soil science at Washington State University.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The debate stems from a 1990s court case in which the EPA was

ordered to require permits for pesticide applications. After several

rounds of appeals, the agency was granted an extension until October

2011 to implement the regulation.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> A fight brewing on a parallel front is focused on the Endangered

Species Act, which requires the EPA to consult with other federal

agencies regarding any pesticide that could harm a protected species.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> In January, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the EPA,

alleging that it didn't adequately consult with the Fish and Wildlife

Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service in approving

pesticides.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The lawsuit seeks federal protection for 214 endangered and

threatened species, including the black-footed ferret, gray wolf,

razorback sucker, Red Hills salamander and Alabama lampmussel.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The lawsuit is prompting alarm among farmers and key lawmakers.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> It could eliminate 380 pesticides used in 49 states, said Washington

state Republican U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, the chairman of the House

Natural Resources Committee.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> With the issue in court, Hastings and 17 other House members sent a

letter to the White House asking that the administration take more time

in advancing any regulations.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "At a time when the economy is already struggling, these regulations

would cost jobs and impose a significant blow on the ability for the

economy to recover," they said in the letter.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The agency is getting heat from all sides. Some environmentalists

say it's has been far too lax in regulating pesticides and protecting

the health of humans and animals.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> "For decades, the EPA has turned a blind eye to the disastrous

effects pesticides can have on some of America's rarest species," said

Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological

Diversity.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> The EPA defended its work at the House hearing this week.</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 1px; height: 1px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-variant: normal; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article24630016.html#storylink=cpy</font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.2px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The future of food transparency in the country is now at the hands of the Senate with Sen. Pat Roberts’ (R-Kan.)</b> Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (SAFE) expected to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/02/dark-act-heads-to-senate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">hit the Senate floor</a> any day now.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dubbed by opponents as the<b> Denying Americans the Right to Know (<a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=DARK" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">DARK</a>) Act,</b> if voted into law, the <a href="http://www.gmofreeusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PatRoberts_DARK_ACT_EDW16221.pdf" onclick="gaTracker('send', 'event', 'download', 'http://www.gmofreeusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PatRoberts_DARK_ACT_EDW16221.pdf');" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">bill</a> would block states from requiring labeling on GMOs and pre-empt state laws that <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=gmo+label" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">require labeling</a> from going into effect.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Industry’s attempt to block GMO labeling laws is yet another symptom of a democracy hijacked by corporate interests,” Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of <a href="http://foodandwaterwatch.org/" onclick="_gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http://foodandwaterwatch.org/', 'Food & Water Watch');" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Food & Water Watch</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/12/united-states-monsanto/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">wrote</a>. “We the people have elected our leaders to Congress to represent our interests, because we live in a democracy—not a nation controlled by a corporate oligarchy. At least, that’s the way it should be. That’s why we’re urging the Senate to reject the DARK Act and any compromise that results in anything less than on-package labeling that tells consumers if a product contains GMO ingredients.”</font></p>

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</font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">head of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,_Nutrition_and_Forestry</font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/02/isis_isn_t_medieval_its_revisionist_history_only_claims_to_be_rooted_in.single.html</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Until a few weeks ago, Joel Leftwich was a senior lobbyist for the largest food and beverage company in the United States. During his tenure at PepsiCo—maker of Cheetos, Lay’s potato chips and, of course, Pepsi-Cola—the company had played a leading role in efforts to beat back local soda taxes and ensure that junk food remained available in schools. But PepsiCo also faced new challenges at the federal level. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, championed by Michelle Obama, had placed new nutrition standards on school lunches. PepsiCo sent teams of lobbyists to Capitol Hill, deluged political candidates with donations, and fired off letters to regulators asking them to weaken the new rules. One such PepsiCo letter requested the redefinition of a “school day” so the company could continue to sell its sugary sports drinks at “early morning sports practices.” Leftwich, a former congressional liaison for the Department of Agriculture, was well positioned to help PepsiCo shore up its allies in the House and Senate.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Last April, Leftwich paid a visit to one such friend, Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, then chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, to thank her for opposing nutrition guidelines for food stamp purchases.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now Leftwich will have far more access to such friends. As the newly appointed staff director of the Senate Agriculture Committee, now under GOP control, Leftwich will have wide sway over the law that funds school lunches, which is up for reauthorization this year. PepsiCo can rest easier, confident that the guidelines already in place are unlikely to be strengthened—and may be weakened instead. Leftwich’s new boss, Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, who took over the Agriculture Committee gavel in January, has set his sights on dialing back school lunch nutrition requirements, which he has called “Big Brother government that’s out of control.”</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While all eyes were on the changing of the guard in Congress as Republicans seized control of the US Senate in January, there was an equally profound change taking place among Capitol Hill staff, as many GOP lawmakers handed over the keys to corporate lobbyists like Leftwich.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“We’ve seen a dramatic uptick in K Street moving into congressional staff positions since the Citizens United decision,” says Craig Holman, Public Citizen’s expert on lobbying and ethics. House Speaker John Boehner, he notes, has “encouraged new members to employ lobbyists on their personal and committee staff.”</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On almost any big issue coming up for debate during the final two years of the Obama administration—surveillance, trade, healthcare, entitlements, tax reform, climate change—corporate lobbyists will now be attempting to influence their own former colleagues, whose salaries are now covered by US taxpayers.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sen. Pat Roberts</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">KS</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"There’s no question there’s some global warming, but I’m not sure what it means. A lot of this is condescending elitism."[source]</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Twelve members of Congress want to make a bad situation even worse, sponsoring the industry-backed General Duty Clarification Act; its banal title hiding that, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/how-chemical-lobby%E2%80%99s-friends-congress-fought-keep-regulators-its-back">as reported by Tim Murphy</a> at <em>Mother Jones</em> magazine, “The <b>bill is designed to sap the Environmental Protection Agency of its powers to regulate safety and security at major chemical sites, as prescribed by the Clean Air Act.”</b></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“‘We call that the<b> Koch brothers bill</b>,’ Greenpeace legislative director Rick Hind says, because the bill’s sponsor, <b>GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo, represents the conservative megadonors’ home city of Wichita, Kansas. (The sponsor of the sister legislation in the senate, GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, represents the Kochs’ home state of Kansas.) The brothers have huge investments in fertilizer production, and Hind thinks they’ll ultimately get what they want, whether or not the bill becomes law.”</b></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No coincidence, perhaps, that the sponsors of the House bill and Senator Roberts, Public Campaign reports, “have collectively taken over $670,000 from the chemical manufacturing industry over their careers.” Since 2011, the industry has spent $85.1 million lobbying.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Congress quietly acquiesces as the regulations meant for our safety are whittled away. The progressive website <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/20/1601231/meat-industry-horsemeat/">ThinkProgress</a> notes that even though food related infections — which kill 3,000 and sicken 48 million Americans each year — rose last year, congressional and White House budget cuts may mean up to 600 fewer food inspectors at meat and poultry plants, leaving it up to the industry to police itself. That rot you’re smelling isn’t just some bad hamburger....</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/26/do-nothing-congress-gives-inertia-a-bad-name/">http://billmoyers.com/2013/04/26/do-nothing-congress-gives-inertia-a-bad-name/</a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Charles Patrick Roberts</b>, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party%28USA%29" title="Republican Party (USA)">Republican</a>, has been a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Senate" title="U. S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senator</a> for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_Kansas" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Kansas">Kansas</a> since 1997. Republican <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerry_Moran" title="Jerry Moran">Jerry Moran</a> is the junior senator for the state.(<a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/pagecgd109_ks2.gif" class="external text" title="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/pagecgd109_ks2.gif" rel="nofollow">map</a>) <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">100 votes w/ oil co's; </sup></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Oil money in politics</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);" size="4">Pat Roberts has received $115,650 in oil contributions during the 110th congress. $65,500 of those dollars were from industry PACS. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=""><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup> In total, Roberts has accepted $199,650 from oil companies since 2000, which makes him one of the top recipients of oil money in the United States Senate. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=""><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup> See above for oil and energy voting record.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Record_and_controversies"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Record and controversies</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Roberts_.22Fixed.22_Iraq_Intelligence"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Roberts "Fixed" Iraq Intelligence</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Environmental_record"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Environmental record</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Oil_record"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Oil record</span></a></font></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Background"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Senate_career"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Senate career</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Positions_and_views"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Positions and views</span></a></font></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Money_in_politics"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Money in politics</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Oil_money_in_politics"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Oil money in politics</span></a></font></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Committees_and_affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees and affiliations</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Committees"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committees</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></a></font></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Coalitions_and_caucuses"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Coalitions and caucuses</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Boards_and_other_affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Boards and other affiliations</span></a></font></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#More_background_data"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">More background data</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Contact"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Articles_and_resources"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Resources"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Resources</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#References"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Articles"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">Articles</span></a></font></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites"><span class="tocnumber">7.5</span> <span class="toctext">Local blogs and discussion sites</span></a></font></li>

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</font><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Record and controversies</span></font></h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><div style="background: rgb(220, 232, 248); margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span>General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:U.S._legislation" title="Category:U.S. legislation">articles on legislation</a>. You can add information you find on how Pat Roberts voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Help:References" title="Help:References">cite your sources</a>!</span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Iraq_War" id="Iraq_War"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Iraq War</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts voted for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq" class="mw-redirect">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq</a> in Oct. 2002.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><div style="background: rgb(220, 232, 248); margin: 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(92, 121, 181); padding: 0.25em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span>For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._Senate_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War">U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War</a>.</span></font></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Roberts.22Fixed.22_Iraq_Intelligence" id="Roberts.22Fixed.22_Iraq_Intelligence"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Roberts "Fixed" Iraq Intelligence</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Shortly after the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=9/11" title="9/11" class="mw-redirect">9/11</a> attacks, President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> issued an order [aimed at protecting 'military security' and 'sensitive law enforcement'] to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_Defense" title="Department of Defense" class="mw-redirect">Department of Defense</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Department_of_State" title="Department of State" class="mw-redirect">State Department</a>, and his <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">cabinet members</a> that severely curtailed intelligence oversight by restricting classified information to just eight members of Congress," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Larisa_Alexandrovna" title="Larisa Alexandrovna">Larisa Alexandrovna</a> <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/HowSenate_Intelligence_chairman_fixed_intelligence_and_diverted_blame_fromWhite_House0811.html" class="external text" title="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/HowSenate_Intelligence_chairman_fixed_intelligence_and_diverted_blame_fromWhite_House0811.html" rel="nofollow">reported</a> for <i>The Raw Story</i>, August 11, 2005.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"'The only Members of Congress whom you or your expressly designated officers may brief regarding classified or sensitive law enforcement information,' he writes, 'are the Speaker of the House, the House Minority Leader, the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chairs and Ranking Members of the Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate.'"</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, Alexandrovna added, "what was said to be an effort to protect the United States became a tool by which the <b style="">Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts</b> (R-KS) ensured there was no serious investigation into how the administration <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cooked_intelligence" title="Cooked intelligence" style="">fixed the intelligence</a> that took the United States to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_in_Iraq" title="War in Iraq" style="">war in Iraq</a> or the fabricated documents used as evidence to do so."</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">See the <i>The Raw Story</i> <a href="http://rawstory.com/robertsintel.htm" class="external text" title="http://rawstory.com/robertsintel.htm" rel="nofollow">Timeline</a>: "Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) Helps to Fix the Intel" by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On another note, on August 3rd, 2006, Roberts criticized the White House for classifying parts of a document about the Iraqi war. The document talked about the role of Iraqi exiles. Roberts believes that the Bush administration kept parts of the report secret to help support the war in Iraq and the fight against Saddam Hussein. He released the following statement:</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I have been disappointed by this administration’s unwillingness to declassify material contained in these reports, material which I believe better informs the public, but that does not — I repeat, does not — jeopardize intelligence operations, sources and methods, This Committee will not settle for anything less, Neither will the American people.”<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/world/middleeast/04intel.html?r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/world/middleeast/04intel.html?r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Environmental_record" id="Environmental_record"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Environmental record</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)" style="">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Oil_record" id="Oil_record"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Oil record</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Pat Roberts has voted in favor of big oil companies on 100% of important oil-related bills</span>, according to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oil_Change_International" title="Oil Change International">Oil Change International</a>. These bills include Iraq War funding, climate change studies, clean energy, and oil import reductions. <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup> See below for oil money in politics.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Bio" id="Bio"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Bio</span></font></h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Background</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts was born April 20, 1936 inTopeka, Kansas. He earned his B.A. in journalism from Kansas State University in 1958. Roberts served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain from 1958-62. He was a reporter and editor for several Arizona newspapers before joining the staff of Republican Kansas Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Carlson" class="extiw" title="w:Frank Carlson">Frank Carlson</a> in 1967.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Senate_career" id="Senate_career"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Senate career</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roberts was elected as a Republican to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a> in 1980, serving eight terms until 1997. Following the retirement of Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kassebaum_Baker" class="extiw" title="w:Nancy Kassebaum Baker">Nancy Kassebaum</a>, he was elected to the Senate in 1996 and re-elected in 2002.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition to his chairmanship on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Roberts is a senior member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Armed_Services_Committee" title="Senate Armed Services Committee" class="mw-redirect">Senate Armed Services Committee</a>, chairing the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. This subcommittee oversees the military's contribution to homeland security and the efforts to prevent proliferation of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Weapons of mass destruction">nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons</a>.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Positions_and_views" id="Positions_and_views"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Positions and views</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In August 2004, Roberts proposed legislation to dismantle the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> and establish a national intelligence director with far-reaching powers, including authority over budget and personnel decisions.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Roberts played a key role in investigating intelligence failures leading up to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first half of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_of_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq" class="extiw" title="w:Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> was released on July 9, 2004. At that time, Roberts said about the second half of the report, "It is one of my top priorities." However, after the 2004 election, he stated "To go through that exercise, it seems to me, in a post-election environment — we didn't see how we could do that and achieve any possible progress. I think everybody pretty well gets it." Critics have argued that a comparison between pre-war intelligence and the pre-war statements made by senior Bush administration officials may have been damaging to the Bush administration, and that this half of the report was halted to protect those officials.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He is known as an advocate on national security and defense, agriculture, health care, education, free and fair trade policies, and increased investment in science and technology.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Money_in_politics" id="Money_in_politics"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Money in politics</span></font></h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. <crpcontribdata>cid=N00005285&cycle=2006</crpcontribdata></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><table class="prettytable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Links to more campaign contribution information for Pat Roberts

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</font></th></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fundraising profile:</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Top contributors by organization/corporation:</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Top contributors by industry:</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00005285" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Roberts%2C+Pat" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Roberts%2C+Pat" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Pat Roberts</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00005285" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Pat Roberts</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00005285" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00005285" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Pat Roberts</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</font></li>

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="Oil_money_in_politics" id="Oil_money_in_politics"> </a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pat Roberts has received $115,650 in oil contributions during the 110th congress. $65,500 of those dollars were from industry <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">PACS.</span> <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup> In total, Roberts has accepted $199,650 from oil companies since 2000, which makes him one of the top recipients of oil money in the United States Senate. <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup> See above for oil and energy voting record.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Committees and affiliations</span></font></h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

</font><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline">Committees</span></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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<li style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry" title="Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</a>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Domestic & Foreign Marketing, Inspection, & Plant & Animal Health</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Production, Income Protection and Price Support - Ranking Member</font></li>

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<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Health,Education,Labor,_and_Pensions" title="Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions">Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</a>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Children and Families</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety</font></li>

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<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry" title="Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry">Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</a>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Marketing Inspection and Production Promotion</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Subcommittee on Research Nutrition and General Legislation</font></li>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Founding Member, <b>Bipartisan Caucus on Unfunded Mandates,</b> 1994-Present</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Founding Member, Bipartisan <b>Rural Health Care</b> Coalition, 1991-Present</font></li>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H1421103" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H1421103" rel="nofollow">Background information on Pat Roberts from Project Vote Smart</a></font></li>

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=KSJR&site=congressmerge" class="external text" title="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=KSJR&site=congressmerge" rel="nofollow">Information on Pat Roberts from Congress Merge</a></font></li></ul><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://whereistand.com/PatRoberts/wizard" class="external text" title="http://whereistand.com/PatRoberts/wizard" rel="nofollow">See how you compare to Pat Roberts</a></font></li>

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109 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-1605

Phone: 202-224-4774

Fax: 202-224-3514

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Frank Carlson Federal Building, Room 392

444 SE Quincy

Topeka, KS 66683

Phone: 785-295-2745

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100 Military Plaza, PO Box 550

Dodge City, KS 67801

Phone: 620-227-2244

Fax: 620-227-2264

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11900 College Boulevard, Suite 203

Overland Park, KS 66210

Phone: 913-451-9343

Fax: 913-451-9446

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155 North Market Street, Suite 120

Wichita, KS 67202

Phone: 316-263-0416

Fax: 316-263-0273

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<li id="cite_note-0"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Pat_Roberts" class="external text" title="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Pat_Roberts" rel="nofollow">Pat Roberts profile</a>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, accessed January 2011.</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Jerry_Moran" class="external text" title="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Jerry_Moran" rel="nofollow">Jerry Moran profile</a>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, accessed January 2011.</font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/voteTables.php" class="external text" title="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/voteTables.php" rel="nofollow">Vote Tracker</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php?type=congress" class="external text" title="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php?type=congress" rel="nofollow">Follow the Oil Money</a></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Roberts#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/voteTables.php" class="external text" title="http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/voteTables.php" rel="nofollow">Vote Tracker</a></font></li>

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Corresponding article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Roberts" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> and <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Pat_Roberts" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Pat_Roberts" rel="nofollow">Cause Caller</a>. (If Cause Caller link does not work, pick from its list of <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Senator" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Senator" rel="nofollow">senators</a> and <a href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Representative" class="external text" title="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Representative" rel="nofollow">representatives</a>.)</b></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s ba-aack -- the<b style=""> Keystone XL pipeline,</b> that is. The Senate is set to vote tomorrow <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/epepper/sen_roberts_amendment_is_just.html" style="">on an amendment</a> created by Big Oil wearing a Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) mask. T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he amendment would revive everyone’s favorite pipeline -- and, while it was at it, greenlight all the other oil-hungry environmental ruination that Republicans go in for.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Senate <a href="http://grist.org/oil/zombie-pipeline-senate-narrowly-kills-keystone-xl-for-now/">defeated Keystone yet again</a> last week, but Sen. Roberts included the pipeline in amendment #1826 of the Senate transportation bill (S. 1813). And that’s not the only Big Oil party favor he stuck in this grab bag of evil:<strong>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It would mandate drilling off of every coast in our nation and in the Arctic Refuge, allow oil shale development on millions of acres in America’s west, and allow the already-rejected Keystone XL pipeline to go forward.</font></p>

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In fact, Roberts’ amendment would double America’s oil drilling, a feat achieved by opening up new areas off the Atlantic and California coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres of pristine land that nearly 200 species of wildlife call home. Millions of acres in the West would throw their doors open to oil shale development, an environmentally damaging and extremely energy-intensive process. Oh, and that dang Keystone XL pipeline would get the go-ahead without even requiring an environmental review.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And here’s the real kicker: Roberts claims this amendment belongs in the transportation bill because the new development is needed to pay for the transpo budget. But leasing the majority of America’s green and blue spaces to oil and gas developers still wouldn’t cover the tab for new transportation infrastructure. Plus, how ironic is it to pay for trains and buses and bike lanes by decimating the country’s wild spaces to feed our cars?</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An angry and embarrassed Christine Todd Whitman, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), storms into a breakfast meeting with Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, waving a letter signed by four Republican senators—Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Larry Craig (R-ID), Jesse Helms (R-NC), and Pat Roberts (R-KS). The letter says that President Bush will soon withdraw the US from the Kyoto Accords (see <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=the_bush_administration_s_environmental_record_1801">March 27, 2001</a>), even though Whitman has been telling the press Bush is committed to a “multipollutant” strategy of reducing CO2 and other emissions. </font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Worse, Bush is going to renege on his promise to reduce C02 emissions (see <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=BushPromiseMandatoryEmissionCuts">September 29, 2000</a>). O’Neill, who is until now unaware of the backchannel discussions about the administration’s environmental policy, is suspicious of the tone and language of the letter, which was faxed from Hagel’s office two days before. It sounds, he later writes, as if it came “right out of Dick Cheney’s mouth” (see <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=a030101cheneybarbour">March 1, 2001</a>). <b>O’Neill will later learn that Hagel and Cheney had been working for days to reverse Bush’s course on carbon dioxide caps, and in the process undermine Whitman </b>(see <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=the_bush_administration_s_environmental_record_136">March 8, 2001</a> and <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/item.jsp?item=the_bush_administration_s_environmental_record_152">March 13, 2001</a>). <cite>[<span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1-4000-6576-3/centerforcoop-20" target="_blank">Dubose and Bernstein, 2006, pp. 19-20</a>]</span></cite></font>

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