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Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning, a combative and animated Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) defended taking the lead in shooting down a much-needed veterans' health bill over a procedural issue while mocking Democrats for wanting to help those in need.

Toomey, who has been the subject of a wave of criticism for blocking the bill aimed at helping vets suffering the after-effects of burn pits overseas was first asked by host Jake Tapper to watch a video clip of a military widow whose husband committed suicide to spare his family the expense of his medical care.

"What do you say to those who find it impossible to believe that of all the multitrillion of dollars in our federal budget, this is where you and Republicans decided to take a stand?" host Tapper asked.

"Here's what you need to keep in mind, Jake," the unmoved Pennsylvania Republican shot back. "First of all, this is the oldest trick in Washington. People take a sympathetic group of Americans and it could be children with an illness, it could be victims of crime, it could be veterans who have been exposed to toxic chemicals, craft a bill to address their problems and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it because they knowthey'll unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudocelebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn't be there. That's what's happening here, Jake."

Toomey then went on to complain about an amendment that has been in the bill since its inception and said that w he wants a vote to be held to strip it out.

"If I get my way, I get my change, it will not change by one penny in spending on any veterans program," he asserted. "What I'm trying to do is change a government accounting methodology designed to allow our Democratic colleagues to go on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree that has nothing to do with veterans and won't be in the veteran's space. That's what I'm trying to do. They could have agreed to this a month ago and this bill would sail through at any time. We can resolve this with an amendment vote but some Democrats don't want an amendment vote." [bill went back to house for tweak]

Watch below or at this link.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/01/michael-flynn/

Retired army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's allies reportedly planned to gather "intelligence" on Republican electors in key states former President Donald Trump lost in hopes of distancing them from the election audits, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and House Select Committee investigators have learned. GUK

Former whistleblower Everett Stern recently spoke with the investigating panel and FBI agents where he shared details about Flynn's associates.

Speaking to The Guardian, Stern, head of the Tactical Rabbit intelligence firm and a current Senate candidate, also revealed Flynn's allies reached out to him. He reportedly provided evidence, which included text messages, emails, and other correspondence to support his claims.

The individuals he was in contact with included Velma Anne Ruth, along with two additional Flynn allies: Al Hartman, a real estate mogul in Houston, Texas, and former army Green Beret Ivan Raiklin, both of whom advocated for election audits in multiple states.

Two of Flynn's associates, who are said to be part of a far-right extremist organization known as the Patriot Caucus, were the first to approach him back in April of last year. At the time, they were reportedly part of a "scheme to seek potentially damaging information on two Republican members of Congress to prod them to back an audit of the 2020 vote that Joe Biden won."

Stern revealed Flynn's associates were in search of incriminating campaign financial information and other negative intel on Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), who both supported Trump's impeachment. They'd reportedly hoped the dirt would be a way to convince Toomey Fitzpatrick to support Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud which suggested that President Joe Biden's election win was illegitimate.

Per The Guardian:

"The efforts by Flynn’s Patriot Caucus allies were launched after Trump failed to block Biden from taking office, and are part of a wider drive by Trump loyalists and Flynn to help boost Trump’s political fortunes via more state audits nationwide into false charges that Biden’s win was rigged, and elect like-minded candidates in key states to top electoral offices."

Although Stern reached out to the FBI last June, it remains unclear whether or not the agency is still pursuing the allegations.

trump falsely claims Biden may yet be removed from office as Republican lawmakers attack Jan. 6 probes

Hunter Daily Kos

 July 26, 2021

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey is retiring. He doesn't need to shine Donald Trump's boots, or engage in fantastical stories of supposed election fraud. He doesn't need to run interference for a movement that goade

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...In reality, there is no evidence to support Blackwell’s—or the Trump campaign’s—charges of massive voter fraud in Pennsylvania. RepublicanSen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania told the TODAY show last  Friday that it was “hard to watch” President Donald Trump’s lie-filled remarks last Thursday, saying, “The president’s charges of large-scale fraud—there’s no evidence here.” Trump has publicly charged that Republican poll watchers were prevented from observing counting in Pennsylvania, but Republican lawyers admittedin federal court that charge was not true.  ...

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/pennsylvania-man-arrested-after-asking-sen-pat-toomey-question

Pennsylvania man who asked a terrible question at a town hall event held by Sen. Pat Toomey found that the worst response isn’t derision — it’s arrest.

Simon Radecki, 28, was arrested last week after trying to ask Toomey a question about DACA,using the Republican’s daughter as his hook. Radecki wanted to make personal the plight of immigrants, who have reportedly been rounded up by immigration officials. That plan backfired on him, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported:

After thanking Mr. Toomey for appearing, Mr. Radecki said, “We’ve been here for a while. You probably haven’t seen the news. Can you confirm whether or not your daughter Bridget has been kidnapped?”

The ensuing four-second pause was punctuated by Mr. Toomey uttering “uhhhh,” before Mr. Radecki added, “The reason I ask is because that’s the reality of families that suffer deportation . . .”

As Mr. Toomey called that a “ridiculous question,” Mr. Radecki himself was removed by Bethlehem police, who later said he’d be charged with disorderly conduct and disrupting a public meeting.

Radecki’s question — he admitted that he went “off script” and didn’t ask the question he initially submitted — brings to mind the famous question asked to Michael Dukakis during a 1988 presidential debate: “If [your wife] were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?”

But the difference is that the questioner, Bernard Shaw, wasn’t arrested for his question. And even though a Toomey spokesperson called the question “inherently threatening,” Radecki wasn’t arrested for making threats. He was arrested for disturbing a meeting, but civil liberties experts say that didn’t happen.

“He didn’t disturb the meeting,” said an ACLU leader told the newspaper. “He was trying to ask a question.”

The Bethlehem Police Department said no charges would be filed against Radecki. But even the thought of it — charges for “disrupting a public meeting” — should send shivers down the spine of civil libertarians, no matter how bad the question may be....

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/17/1583590/-Koch-organizations-picking-up-ground-game-slack-from-Trump

Koch brothers have created a ground game where Donald Trump has failed, not to elect Trump but to elect all those Republican senators who won't dump him. See, they're too pure to sully their hands with him, but not so to elect his enablers.

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) — To the Republicans in the red "Can't Afford Katie" T-shirts, it's as if Donald Trump doesn't even exist.

These activists have been sprinting through Pennsylvania neighborhoods, talking to people about how bad Democrat Katie McGinty would be as a U.S. senator. Here to help save Republican Sen. Pat Toomey — and, more broadly, the party's control of the Senate — are employees and volunteers for Americans for Prosperity, the best-known group financed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch.

Similar scenes are playing out in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio. […]

Four years after spending heavily in a futile effort to prevent President Barack Obama's second term, the Kochs have pushed all of their resources down ballot. And their resources are ample: They're on track to spend about $250 million on policy and politics in the two years leading to Election Day.

They've spent about $42 million of that on TV, and are now pulling all ads to focus their money on door-to-door voter contact, something the Trump campaign isn't doing. They've got about 1,200 employees across 36 states doing the grunt work to make sure the Senate majority remains Koch-friendly. They're using their massive voter database, which has long-since eclipsed the GOP's, to target some 5 million solid Republican voters who might be tempted to sit this election out because of Trump.

That would be disaster for the Kochs. They need their bought Senate, as much as ever

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https://www.propublica.org/article/super-pac-to-billionaire-we-need-more-money-to-save-a-republican-senate

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Kochs and their anti-climate network of big spenders are targeting these four key races with millions in attack ads. In Nevada and Florida, climate change deniers Joe Heck and Marco Rubio are leading against climate champions Catherine Cortez Masto and Patrick Murphy. And in Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty and denier Pat Toomey are locked in a virtual tie. 

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http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/08/outside-groups-dominating-senate-contests-this-cycle-report-finds/

Outside groups have aired almost half of all political ads for Senate races this election cycle, an all-time high at 49 percent. Entities not associated with campaigns – such as PACs, super PACs and political nonprofits – are especially dominating the competitive contests, sponsoring more than 80 percent of ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, according to an analysis released Wednesday by theWesleyan Media Project and the Center for Responsive Politics.

“With the presidential election garnering so much of the media and the public’s attention, the real ad fight is in down-ballot races,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “And what we’re seeing there, especially in Senate contests, is that dark money groups are buying tens of thousands of ads – and they’re doing so without any donor disclosure and, often, without even reporting their spending to the FEC.”...

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Emergency Update:The Koch brothers have just dropped a new $2 million ad buy attacking Katie McGinty. 

What’s worse, so far in Pennsylvania Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity has knocked on more than 21,000 doors and made nearly 500,000 phone calls to re-elect climate denier Pat Toomey. 

And McGinty isn’t their only target. The Koch group Freedom Partners Action Fund has spent $24 million so far trying to protect the climate-denying majority in the Senate. They’re making huge investments against Ted Strickland in Ohio and Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, as well. And their friends at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have spent hundreds of thousands to “greenwash” Senator Mark Kirk’s record in his campaign against climate champion and veteran Tammy Duckworth in Illinois.  8/16

Koch lobbyist to senators: Don’t reform biofuel mandates. Repeal them.

Posted by Jennifer A. Dlouhy Date: April 16, 2015

WASHINGTON — A plan to overhaul the nation’s biofuel mandates — instead of repealing them altogether — would do more harm than good, a Koch executive warned Congress on Thursday.

Philip Ellender, the president of Koch’s government affairs arm, took aim at legislation by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., that would strip away government mandates for refiners to blend in traditional corn-based ethanol, while preserving quotas for more advanced biofuels that have been slower to enter commercial production.

“Feinstein-Toomey would . . . turn the Renewable Fuel Standard into a real mandate with real economic consequences for consumers by banning the only economic form of ethanol today,” Ellender said in a letter to senators. “Repeal the entire RFS instead.”

The missive comes less than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency agreed to finalize 2014, 2015 and 2016 renewable fuel quotas as part of a deal settling an oil industry lawsuit.

Read more: EPA to set overdue biofuel quotas in deal with oil industry groups

That may have quelled some of the congressional push to alter the renewable fuel standard, which obligates refiners to add steadily increasing volumes of ethanol and other alternatives into the nation’s transportation fuel supply — as much as 36 billion gallons in 2022. Although Congress established the framework, the Environmental Protection Agency is tasked with establishing annual quotas for the four types of biofuels mandated under the law: traditional renewable fuel, advanced biofuels that aren’t derived from corn starch, biodiesel and cellulosic biofuel.

Refiners already turn to traditional ethanol as a low-cost way to add octane to fuel, Ellender notes, but are hitting a blend wall where they no longer can incorporate enough ethanol to meet the volumetric RFS targets without exceeding a 10 percent threshold acceptable for use in all cars and trucks.

Although new vehicles are being built and warranted for higher ethanol blends, warranty and liability concerns for older cars and trucks have helped diminish some retailers’ enthusiasm to sell a 15 percent blend known as E15.

“Ethanol made from corn starch is by and large the most cost-effective way to achieve higher octane in gasoline,” Ellender writes. “The reality is that there is virtually no cellulosic ethanol being made today and very little other advanced biofuels (that) are more expensive than ethanol made from corn starch.”

The Koch executive suggests that the Feinstein-Toomey bill — like its companion in the House — would make U.S. biofuels policy look more like the approach in California, which forces refiners to meet a low-carbon fuel standard.

Although one Koch-cited analysis puts the cost of compliance with the California low-carbon fuel standard as high as $1.06 per gallon by 2020, Ellender insists “the actual cost could be much higher if the rest of the nation goes on a low-carbon fuel diet via the Feinstein-Toomey legislation.”

Supporters of the Feinstein-Toomey approach insist that the goal of the RFS was to use corn-based ethanol as a pathway to more advanced renewable fuels made from algae and other non-edible plant materials. Toomey argues that the current mandate essentially pits corn starch ethanol against other renewable fuels.

Related story: Broad coalition takes aim at renewable fuel mandates

The result is that the RFS “has stunted the growth of environmentally friendly advanced biofuels like biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol,” Toomey said in February. “Once the mandate for corn ethanol is gone, the RFS program will be able to focus on those fuels that best reduce greenhouse gas emissions and don’t compete with our food supply.”

Several petroleum refiners are also big ethanol producers. For instance, San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corp. is the nation’s third-largest producer of renewable fuels. And Koch’s refining subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources, now owns seven ethanol plants, with Ellender insisting “we bought these ethanol plants despite the RFS — not because of it.”

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Pennsylvania company caught in a straw donor scheme; Toomey donates money to charity

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who’s locked in one of the Senate’s closest races this cycle, and one other current lawmaker were among politicians on the receiving end of donations from players charged with making illegal campaign contributions by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office. Businessman David Stewart, the head of a Pennsylvania construction conglomerate, pleaded guilty last ... read more. 

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he political winds in the nation’s capitol shifted on Thursday in favor of wind energy.

A Senate committee passed a bill that would restore two key tax credits for the wind industry. Both credits have helped spur the sector’s rapid growth in recent years, but Congress allowed them to expire at the end of last year. Uncertainty over whether the incentives would be extended into 2014 was blamed for a startling decline in wind farm construction last year, when just 1 gigawatt of capacity was installed — down from 13 gigawatts the year before.

Thursday’s move by the Senate Finance Committee doesn’t guarantee that the full Senate will support resurrection of the credits, much less the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. But encouraging signs emerged after Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) tried to kill the credits. He argued that restoring them would amount to picking energy-industry winners and losers and forcing taxpayers to “subsidize inefficient, uncompetitive forms of energy.” (Meanwhile, taxpayers continue a century-long tradition of subsidizing fossil fuels.) CleanTechnica reports on the encouraging bipartisan response to Toomey’s effort:

The PTC [wind energy Production Tax Credit] and the alternate Investment Tax Credit were added overnight to a modified “Chairman’s mark,” after an earlier draft released Monday left them and several other provisions for further negotiation.

They prevailed on a critical 18-6 vote during the committee markup late Thursday morning, on a motion by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) to strip them out. Five Republicans joined the committee’s Democrats in voting down that amendment: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Thune (R-SD), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and John Cornyn (R-TX).... grist

Sen. Pat Toomey

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"My view is: I think the data is pretty clear. There has been an increase in the surface temperature of the planet over the course of the last 100 years or so. I think it’s clear that that has happened. The extent to which that has been caused by human activity I think is not as clear. I think that is still very much disputed and has been debated."[source]

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conservative wing of the party which is really a radical wing of the party, from Pat Toomey to Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn.

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gun bill cover to provent stronger one: The bipartisan measure, which had appeared to have a strong chance of passage, received 55 votes before Mr. Reid changed his vote to “no” to preserve the parliamentary right to bring the measure up again. Four Republicans voted “yes”: Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, a co-author of the legislation; John McCain of Arizona; Mark Steven Kirk of Illinois; and Susan Collins of Maine. An equal number of Democrats voted “no”: Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Max Baucus of Montana and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. All are from states that Mr. Obama lost by wide margins last fall, and all but Ms. Heitkamp face difficult re-election campaigns in 2014.

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defensive compropmise on gun bill?

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Lobbying and donations

A 2012 press release by MarcellusMoney.org stated that the "natural gas industry and related trade groups have now given nearly $8 million to Pennsylvania state candidates and political committees since 2000.... Top recipients of industry money given between 2000 and April 2012 were Governor Tom Corbett (R) with $1,813,205.59, Senate President Joseph Scarnati (R-25) with $359,145.72, Rep. Dave Reed (R-62) with $137,532.33, House Majority Leader Rep. Mike Turzai (R-28) with $98,600, and Sen. Don White (R-41) with $94,150.[16]

The 2011 Common Cause report, "Deep drilling, deep pockets, in Washington and Pennsylvania," found that "from 2001 through June 2011, the fracking industry gave $20.5 million to current members of Congress and spent $726 million on lobbying."

Two Pennsylvanians, Rep. Tim Murphy, and Sen. Pat Toomey, ranked among the leading recipients in Congress in gas industry donations (10th and 28th respectively). Murphy has received $275,499 and Toomey $160,750. Other PA recipients included Rep. Jason Altmire (D) with $65,365; Rep. Jim Gerlach (R) with $60,800; Rep. Bill Shuster (R) with $59,000; Rep. Charles Dent (R) with $56,500; and Rep. Glenn Thompson (R) with $52,000.

The natural gas industry contributed about $1.6 million to Gov. Corbett’s political campaigns from 2001 to 2011, about $1.1 million of that for his campaign for governor.[17]

 Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania’s eleven Dirty Air Villains are Senator Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and

Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA3), Glenn Thompson (R-PA5), Patrick Meehan (R-PA7) and Joseph Pitts

(R-PA16) (whose districts include the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA

which is ranked 16th worst for ozone pollution and 10th worst for year-round particulate pollution

and #22 for Short-term particulate pollution), Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA8), William Shuster (RPA9),

Thomas Marino (R-PA10), Lou Barletta (R-PA11), Charles Dent (R-PA15) and Timothy

Murphy (R-PA18)( whose district includes the Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA MSA which is ranked

20th for ozone pollution and 6th for Year-round particulate pollution and #6 for Short-term

particulate pollution). Pennsylvania’s four Clean Air Heroes are Robert Brady (D-PA1), Mike

Doyle (D-PA14), Chaka Fattah (D-PA2) and Allyson Schwartz (D-PA13).

o Virginia: Virginia’s six Dirty Air Villains are Reps. Scott Rigell (R-VA2), Randy

wiki:

Patrick Joseph "Pat" Toomey, Sr. (born November 17, 1961)[2] is the junior United States Senator for Pennsylvania[3] and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, Toomey served as a United States Representative for three terms, but he did not seek a fourth in compliance with a pledge he had made while running for office in 1998.[4] He also served as president of the Club for Growth.

Toomey attended school at La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island before earning an A.B. in government from Harvard College. He was employed first by Chemical Bank and subsequently Morgan, Grenfell & Co. beginning in 1984 and 1986, respectively, until resigning from the latter in 1991.[5]

Prior to being elected to the U.S. Senate, Toomey served as the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district from 1999 to 2005. He narrowly lost the Republican primary for United States Senate in 2004. From 2005 to 2009, he served as president of the Club for Growth.[6] After becoming the Republican nominee for the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, Toomey was elected to the seat on November 2, 2010, defeating his Democratic opponent, retired Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak.

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Toomey was hired by Chemical Bank in 1984, where he was involved in currency swap transactions. In 1986, Toomey was hired by Morgan, Grenfell & Co., where he dealt in multiple foreign currencies, interest rates, and currency-related derivatives.[5] In 1991, Toomey resigned from the firm when it was acquired by Deutsche Bank in order to avoid the decreased flexibility and entrepreneurship that the acquisition would have caused.[5] The same year, Toomey and two younger brothers, Steven and Michael, opened Rookie's Restaurant in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[5]

Based on his three terms in United States House of Representatives, the conservative American Conservative Union (ACU) has assigned Toomey a lifetime congressional rating of 97%,[21] and the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) a lifetime "Liberal Quotient" of 6%.[22] The ACLU has given Toomey a 13% lifetime rating on civil rights.[23]

In January 2005 Toomey became president of the Club for Growth, which had greatly supported his 2004 race against Specter.

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Education

Toomey has strongly supported increased school choice and charter schools.[26]

[edit] Environment

During Toomey's tenure in Congress, he supported legislation that would speed up approval of forest thinning projects in 2003, supported opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and development, opposed implementing the Kyoto Protocol, and opposed legislation that would mandate increased vehicle fuel efficiency standards and provide incentives for alternative fuels.[27] In 2003, Toomey was given a 0% rating by the League of Conservation Voters, indicating what the organization considers to be an anti-environmental voting record.

[edit] Financial regulation

Since his first days as a freshman Congressman, Toomey has strongly advocated deregulation of the financial services industry: "The trend in deregulation, beginning in the early 1980s, is one of the biggest reasons for the sustained economic expansion. I would like to see us continue to deregulate on many fronts, including the financial services industry,” he stated in the spring of 1999.[5]

While serving on the House Banking Committee, Toomey, in 1999, helped write House Resolution 10, which led to the repeal of parts of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act.[5][9] The repeal of the Act, which had regulated the separation of banks and investment firms, allowed for companies that combined banking and investment operations. President Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, former Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP have said that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was a significant cause of the current global financial crisis, on the grounds that it opened up the door for the financial sector to form so-called too big to fail financial services giants like AIG.[9][28]

[edit] Guns

Toomey advocates reducing gun regulations. While serving in Congress, Toomey supported bills that would prohibit suing gun makers and sellers for gun misuse and would decrease the waiting period due to background checks from three days to one for purchases made at gun shows.[27] Toomey received an "A" by the National Rifle Association (NRA), indicating what the NRA considers to be a pro-gun rights voting record.

former pres club for growth after got beat

Evidence of Club for Growth's lobbying activities:

The Club for Growth was founded by Wall Street: