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Congressman: Air Force should award $35B contract to Boeing (The Wichita Business Journal )

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:54:34 GMT

The U.S. Air Force is regrouping in the days after the General Accounting Office ruled that Boeing Co. should get another chance to bid on the $35 billion contact it awarded to Northrop Grumman Corp., Congressman Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. said Friday. (NOC) (BA)

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GAO Report Out - The Process Was Flawed (Desert Beacon)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:23:00 GMT

Kansas Rep.Todd Tiahrt has claimed all along that the Air Force's decision to award the air refueling tanker contract to EADS/Northrup was a "big mistake from the beginning." He's been very outspoken about the Air Force choosing the EADS/Northrop air refueling tanker over the Boeing tanker. Wednesday's decision by the GAO validates his and others' concerns (mine included) about Air Force...

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Kansas Republican Delegation not behind McCain (Thoughts from Kansas)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:55:46 GMT

Among the many Republican congresscritters not backing McSame, Todd Tiahrt truly stands out . Tiahrt claims to represent the Wichita area, and his refusal to back his party's nominee probably doesn't mean he backs Obama. He may well think McCain is too nice to immigrants, or is insufficiently Bush-like, or perhaps he's looking for a candidate who shares his anti-mother sentiments...

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WSU Recruit Finally Gets Visa (Red Orbit )

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:14 GMT

By Paul Suellentrop, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. May 13--Wichita State basketball recruit Ehimen Orukpe has been granted a student visa by the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, according to Rep. Todd Tiahrt. Tiahrt's office sent out a news release on Monday.

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Apple Pie is Next! (The Liberal OC)

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:54:03 GMT

From Dana Milbank: On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. “Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote,” he announced. Rep. Kathy [...]

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Republicans Vote Against Mothers (Oliver Willis)

owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis) — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:18:45 GMT

Really. On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. “Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote,” he announced. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who [...]

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Stupid Republican Tricks (Daily Kos)

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:37:40 GMT

Dana Milbank has the special Mother's Day edition : On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day," when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. "Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote," he announced. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), who has...

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Republicans Hate Their Mothers (Queen of Spain Blog)

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:36:10 GMT

Well, at least 178 of them do: “On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, ‘Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,’ when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. ‘Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote,’ [...]

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Mother's Day (kansascity.com)

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:35:00 GMT

WASHINGTON | It was a political maneuver not even their mothers could love. Immediately after Congress agreed (412-0) to “celebrate the role of mothers in the United States” and support Mother’s Day, U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Kansas stood and called for a second vote. He then joined 177 other GOP congressmen, including Sam Graves of Missouri, in voting to rethink the matter.

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Republicans vote against Mother’s Day. (Think Progress)

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:11:06 GMT

On Wednesday, the House took up the seemingly uncontroversial H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day.” The resolution initially passed 412 to 0, until Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) rose in protest: Mr. Speaker, I ask for a recorded vote because I’m [...]

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Party of Family Values (Blog of the Moderate Left)

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:20:29 GMT

The Republican Party votes against motherhood: On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest.“Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider the vote,” he [...]

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Porkers Squeal for Boeing (The Swine Line)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:20:44 GMT

Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on our April Porkers of the Month. Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) respond: Dicks, Tiahrt ‘Porkers of the Month’ over tanker George Behan, a spokesman for Dicks, discounted the criticism, saying Dicks believes that the Air Force decision in favor of the Airbus tanker was “flawed.” Citing the Boeing tanker’s smaller size relative...

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Pork Watch - April Porkers of the Month (The Swine Line)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:41:40 GMT

Tom Schatz announced the April Porkers of the Month - Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) - on CNBC's Pork Watch today. Rep. Tiahrt also appeared on the segment to defend his interference with the defense procurement process.

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CAGW Names Reps. Dicks and Tiahrt Porkers of the Month (The Swine Line)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:32:22 GMT

CAGW Names Reps. Dicks and Tiahrt Porkers of the Month Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) April Porkers of the Month for threatening to reverse a $35 billion Air Force refueling tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman. The losing bidder, the Boeing Company, has [...]

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CAGW Names Reps. Dicks and Tiahrt Porkers of the Month (Business Wire)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:29:00 GMT

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Reps. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.) April Porkers of the Month for threatening to reverse a

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Tiahrt Promotes Sackett to Communications Director (Potomac Flacks)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:24:16 GMT

Sam Sackett has been promoted to Communications Director for Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS). Sackett was a senior Legislative Assistant and replaces Chuck Knapp. (CQ's People on the Move)

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Pat Roberts, Todd Tiahrt make embarrassing Top 10 list (Blue Tide Rising)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:21:00 GMT

... oil in the US House and US Senate. P at Roberts is Big Oil's 6th best friend in the Senate, and Todd Tiahrt is Big Oil's 5th best friend in the House. No wonder the Republican are eager to subsidize Big Oil. Big Oil can be counted on to share their savings with Republican campaign coffers.

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Remember the Coast Guard? (Wampum)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:06:11 GMT

I'm surprised that Norm Dicks (D-WA-06) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KA-04), chair and ranking member of the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee, view the best means to cure the defect introduced by the outgoing regime's cuts in the funding for Forest Service is to move it from Ag to Interior. Shades of Joe Lieberman's bi-partisan legislative ghost!

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Self-preservation (Thoughts from Kansas)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:10:12 GMT

Todd Tiahrt, Republican congressman from Wichita , is worried. In the course of a heated debate, he told his colleagues on the House floor " If you have a single ounce of self-preservation, you'll vote no ." What, you might ask, is so crucial to their survival? Is this more heated rhetoric over FISA? Funding for the war on brown people terror? No, an ethics bill, creating a bipartisan...

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The Mother Of All Earmarks (The LRC Blog)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:05:52 GMT

Hard to tell whose intern wrote this letter, but it went out from the office of Representative Todd Tiahrt, of Kansas, to a couple hundred of his closest friends whose congressional districts can get some taxpayer money if that $35...

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