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10.23.2009 3:09 pm

An I’ve-got-mine moment

Update (Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m.): Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s spokeswoman said today that the senator is not on Medicare. The senator’s office has requested the report from Rep. Weiner’s office, but it has not been provided a copy of the…

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08.17.2009 9:00 pm

Tracking earmarks: Putting names on favors.

Ears marked

Ears marked

Last week, in a development that went almost unnoticed amid the national furor over health care reform, two of Washington’s nonpartisan watchdog organizations released a comprehensive database of how Congress spent $19.9 billion on 11,286 earmarked projects in fiscal year…

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08.06.2009 9:00 pm

From Bork to Sotomayor: Points for principle

Sonia Sotomayor

Among the 68 U.S. senators who voted Thursday to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was Missouri Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond.

This editorial page has had its differences with Mr. Bond, and he with us,…

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08.05.2009 4:45 pm

Bond: “Elections have consequences;” will vote for Sotomayor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced today that he would vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote is expected before the Senate goes into recess on Friday. No more than seven Republicans are expected to…

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04.27.2009 4:52 pm

Green jobs in Missouri? We’ll take ‘em.

Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond is saying “green” jobs are too expensive, according to this story from Bill Lambrecht in our Washington bureau.  Mr. Lambrecht reports:

“Green jobs are not so much created as they are bought with massive taxpayers subsidies,” Bond said…

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