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Presented by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Earthjustice
With Daniel Lippman
Pat Roberts is joining Capitol Counsel as a partner, making the longtime Ag Committee chair the latest former pol to go through the revolving door since leaving Congress last month. Roberts, who was first elected to the House in 1981 before winning election to the Senate in 1997, is the longest-serving member of Congress from Kansas. Roberts helped shepherd multiple farm bills through Congress, most recently in 2018, and also served on the Finance, HELP, Ethics and Rules committees.
On campaign finance. you could say they did it again on the voting rights act. but this time as linda said this was such a flimsy case that if the court really would have brought unbelievable discredit on itself and i think threatened its own legitimacy if it had tossed obamacare on this reading of those few words. russ sullivan first of all, congratulations. you must be breathing easy tonight. you are overseeing the staff on the senate finance committee drafting this language legislative counsel drafting the language another committee involved in the senate a lot of the language got merged over in harry reid s office and somewhere in that hallway between the finance committee and harry rooet s office, this error occurred. it seems plainly anyone who s been around legislation can recognize it as a drafting oversight, a drafting error. and the supreme court figured