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Applewhite) — AP House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. , left, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas walk to the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, for the final vote on the payroll tax cut extension. (AP...
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The eye-popping option of cutting to 300 weapons sparked a firestorm of criticism by Republicans on Capitol Hill. "A 300 number would (mean) the Chinese would have more than we have," Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl said Thursday. "I mean, this is a number where...
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Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , one of the bi-partisan House and Senate conferees, returns to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, after the final vote in the Senate on the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension...
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Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , one of the bi-partisan House and Senate conferees, returns to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, after the final vote in the Senate on the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension...
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When neither the facts nor the law is on your side, start picking on low-income women who don’t/didn’t want to get pregnant. Utah’s way-senior senator, Orrin Hatch, fearing for his political life, let loose with the same lie about Planned Parenthood...
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And one senior Republican senator is sounding a warning. "Obviously this is going to create a huge stir in Congress," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, said during a keynote address Thursday at a nuclear deterrence summit in Arlington, Virginia. "We will have a...
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Defending Defense project—a joint initiative of AEI, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and the Heritage Foundation—brought together Senators Jon Kyl (R–AZ), Kelly Ayotte (R–NH), and Lindsey Graham (R–SC) and Representatives Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R–CA),...
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The Associated Press’s Robert Burns — what? Eli Lake was busy? Let me explain. First, let’s examine the key
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12:27 am ET By a vote of 60 to 36, the Senate passed a bill Friday to keep the Social Security payroll tax at its lower 4.2 percent rate and to extend unemployment benefits. Republican leaders were split on the measure, with GOP Leader Sen. Mitch...
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GOP leaders said Thursday that cloture is sure to fail, putting the Senate back at square one as it goes into the weeklong Presidents Day break. “We’ll defeat cloture. That’s a foregone conclusion,” GOP Whip Jon Kyl told MT. Democrats aren’t so sure. ...
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Mr. Camp and his chief negotiating partner, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, linked hands for the cameras, as Mr. Baucus said helpfully for anyone who didn’t get the visual cue, “Working together!” Not everyone was on board. The three Republican...
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Senate Republicans complained Thursday they were shut out of the payroll tax negotiations, but House Speaker John Boehner didn’t want to hear it. The three Senate Republicans involved in talks to extend payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits —Jon Kyl of...
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But he said the agreement was about "economic relief" and won't grow the economy or create jobs. Even as the compromise between Republicans and Democrats in both chambers appeared to be reaching its conclusion, Senate Republicans voiced unease with...
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DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), members of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend the payroll tax cut, talk with each other during a meeting February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. ...
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US Senators Max Baucus (L) and Jon Kyl, talk during a meeting of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend a payroll tax cut. US congressional leaders agreed early Thursday on a $100 billion deal to extend a middle class tax cut and...
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Todd Akin, a veteran Republican representative from Missouri, is in a tough primary to decide whether he will challenge Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is considered vulnerable. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. , remains favored to take the Senate seat of Sen. Jon...
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Denny Rehberg. Todd Akin, a veteran Republican representative from Missouri, is in a tough primary to decide whether he will challenge Senator Claire McCaskill, who is considered vulnerable. Representative Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, remains...
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Their reasoning is that Planned Parenthood does not identify the number of its patents who are pregnant and may have received other services, so any statistic along those lines would be skewed. Hatch’s misstep is similar to that of Sen. Jon Kyl,...
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They also caution that the topsy-turvy nature of the GOP race could result in last-minute ad purchases here. But they aren’t holding their breath. Arizona has an open U.S. Senate seat with Jon Kyl’s impending retirement, a new ninth U.S House seat and...
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), members of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend the payroll tax cut, talk with each other during a meeting February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the...
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , center, accompanied by Sen. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , criticizes Democrats on the deadlocked bi-partisan payroll tax confrence panel, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol...
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , attends a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kyl is a member of the House-Senate conference committee working on the extension of the payroll tax break that is also...
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 2: (L to R) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks as Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) , U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill February 2, 2012 in...
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , listens during a meeting of the Payroll Tax Conference Committee, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. , left, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , confer during a meeting of the Payroll Tax conferees, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (L) talks to a reporter at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 17, 2011. The U.S. Senate on Saturday passed a $915 billion bill to fund most federal agency activities through next September and avert a government shutdown.
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , leaves the floor after the Senate passed legislation Saturday extending a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months, leaving the stage for another fight in February, at the at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2011.
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , left, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. , confer as Republican Senators emerge from a closed-door negotiation on the payroll tax cut extension and other measures at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011.
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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 14: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) speaks during a news conference about defense spending sequestration at the U.S. Captiol December 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Kyl and a group of GOP senators announced an effort to prevent across-the-board cuts to...
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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (3rd L) speaks as (L-R) Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ), and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) listen during a news briefing after the weekly Republican policy luncheon...
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: (L-R) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) approach the microphones to talk to the press after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Captiol November 29, 2011 in...
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Super committee Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) leaves after the meeting between Republican and Democratic members of the 'Super Committee', or Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, on November 21, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the committee have struggled to come up...
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Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. If the bipartisan committee fails to reach a deficit-cutting solution...
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Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl, R- Ariz. , member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (C) is surrounded by reporters after leaving a meeting with fellow members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or 'Supercommittee,' in the U.S. Capitol November 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. With the...
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Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, arrives for a meeting with bi-partisan members of the supercommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
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Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, and a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, arrives for a meeting with the bi-partisan members of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
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Super committee member Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) talks to reporters after a meeting with Republican committee members on Capitol Hill in Washington November 17, 2011. The special congressional committee is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings over 10 years, but with...
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Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, heads through the Capitol to a closed-door meeting with other Republican members of the Supercommittee, in Washington, Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, 2011.
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , right, and others, walk to the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, to deliver a defeat to Democrats and President Obama on the stimulus-style jobs agenda,...
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Oxfam America activists dressed as members of the Congressional Super Committee, L-R: Sen. John Kyl,R-AZ, Sen. John Kerry,D-MA, and Rep. Dave Camp, R-MI, scratch their 'heads' as they pose October 26, 2011 in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Oxfam activists adorned with capes...
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (2nd R) makes brief remarks during a news conference with (L-R) Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Barrosso (R-WY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD)...
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) talks with reporters after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (C) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) at the U.S. Capitol October 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. ...
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (2nd L) makes brief remarks after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) at the U.S. Capitol October 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. McConnell said President Barack...
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), members of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend the payroll tax cut, talk with each other during a meeting February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the...
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