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NEWS ABOUT: Sam Brownback

Sam Brownback stories: 13 news summaries
OPINION

 Kerry Leaps 
 to Defense of 
 Hill as Iraq 
 Ambassador 


Republican objections only slow down important work

Mar 25, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anticipating GOP resistance, John Kerry goes to bat for Iraq ambassador nominee Chris Hill,  arguing in a Politico piece that he should be confirmed immediately.  Kerry's committee is considering the veteran diplomat's nomination today. Despite Hill’s lack of Middle East experience, he’s cut out for peacemaking... More »

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Iraq • Sam Brownback • John Kerry • David Petraeus • Christopher Hill • Senate Foreign Relations Committee • Iraq war

Catholic Group Savages Dems Using Senator's Signature

Staffer, not Brownback, approved the letter

Feb 24, 09 2:49 PM CST
(Newser) - A letter suggesting that top Democratic lawmakers aren’t “real Catholics” is attributed to Sen. Sam Brownback, the Huffington Post reports, but in fact came from a conservative Catholic group, Politico confirms.  “Real Catholics need a new voice—not the likes of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Sam Brownback • abortion • Ted Kennedy • Catholic • President Obama

Analysis

GOP Faces Uphill Battle for Senate in 2010

Wave of retirees in competitive states leaves party open

Jan 13, 09 2:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The 2010 election isn’t looking any better than the past two for Senate Republicans, CNN reports. When two-term Ohio Sen. George Voinovich threw in the towel yesterday, he became the fourth Republican incumbent to step down and leave a potentially competitive race. Democrats have lost only Hillary Clinton and... More »

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Sam Brownback • Senate • GOP • Senate Republicans • George Voinovich • Jeb Bush • 2010 election

GOP Stalwart Bond Will Leave Senate After 2010

Open Missouri seat sure to invite a contest

Jan 8, 09 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The GOP just can’t catch a break. Kit Bond, another senior Republican senator from a swing state, announced his retirement today, Politico reports. Bond joins Florida’s Mel Martinez, Kansas’ Sam Brownback, and, likely, Texas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison in a clutch of GOP Senate retirements. His decision not to... More »

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Sam Brownback • Senate • GOP • retirement • Republican Party • Missouri • Mel Martinez • Senate GOP • Kay Bailey Hutchison • Christopher Bond

Robertson Backs Rudy; Brownback, McCain

Mitt's the loser as religious right lines up

Nov 7, 07 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Two Christian leaders took sides in the GOP primary today: Pat Robertson chose Rudy Giuliani and Sam Brownback went for John McCain. The far-right electorate has been generally despondent about its primary choices, and the endorsements are seen as major coups for socially liberal Giuliani and down-but-not-out McCain, Politico reports. More »

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religious right • Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Pat Robertson • social conservatives • Paul Weyrich • Heritage Foundation • endorsement

Dubious Bush Benefactor Embedded in Clinton Camp

Alan Quasha makes a strange Dem bedfellow

Oct 21, 07 8:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has another backer as mysterious as the now-discredited Norman Hsu—this one a businessman who goes way back with George W. Bush. The Nation examines Clinton's ties to Alan Quasha, the Harken Energy magnate who bailed out the younger Bush’s oil company in 1986. Quasha now has... More »

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Sam Brownback • Hillary Clinton • Saudi Arabia • Philippines • campaign fundraising • Jesse Helms • Bahrain • Harken Energy • Terry McAuliffe • George W. Bush

Christian Right Isn't Singing
the Praises of GOP Candidates

Evangelicals meet today to seek agreement

Oct 19, 07 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Crowded as the GOP field may be, the religious right can't  seem to find a congenial candidate. The Washington Post reports that evangelicals—today beginning a 2-day summit—remain unmoved no matter how sweetly Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and John McCain come calling. And the idea of a Rudy Guiliani... More »

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religious right • Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • Mike Huckabee • Election 2008

Brownback to Quit GOP Race

Oct 18, 07 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sam Brownback will withdraw from the GOP primaries as early as tomorrow, sources tell the AP. The conservative senator’s fundraising abilities apparently didn't keep pace with his presidential ambitions; his campaign reported raising only $800,000 in the third quarter. “I know Senator Brownback enjoyed campaigning and meeting... More »

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Sam Brownback • conservative • Mike Huckabee • Republican candidate • Republican presidential primaries • Election 2008

Christian Right Seeks Rudy Alternative

If the faithful can't
find a candidate soon, he'll be the winner

Oct 1, 07 5:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The religious right’s failure to coalesce around anyone in the GOP’s top presidential tier could throw the party’s nomination to socially liberal Rudy Giuliani, the Los Angeles Times reports. By favoring unrealistic candidates such as Brownback and Huckabee, and doubting the conservative zeal of Romney and Thompson,... More »

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religious right • Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • GOP • James Dobson • Mike Huckabee

Iraqis Irate
Over Senate Partition Vote

Resolution pushing autonomous regions prompts backlash

Oct 1, 07 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi government is reacting angrily to a Senate resolution passed Thursday that the US push to divide the country into three autonomous regions—Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish—to reduce ethnic bloodshed. "No Iraqi is for dividing their country or for splitting it into three weak states, unable to... More »

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Iraq • Sam Brownback • Joe Biden • Sunni • Kurds • Shia • sovereignty • partition • federal • US Embassy • Hoshiyar Zebari • Iraq Constituition • Muqtada al-Sadr

From Whispers, GOP Hopefuls Aim for a Roar

Backchannel back-stabbing on rise ahead of Iowa poll

Aug 9, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - With second-tier candidates sensing that Saturday's straw poll may be their last, best chance to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Iowa is abuzz with whispering campaigns, Slate's John Dickerson says. The homegrown negative ads are a major tool for cash-poor politicians with names like Tancredo, Brownback... More »

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Sam Brownback • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Iowa • Republican • Fred Thompson • presidential campaign • GOP • Mike Huckabee • poll • straw poll • Tom Tancredo • Election 2008 • presidential election

GOP Candidates Play Nice in Iowa Debate

Repubs target Dems with tough talk on war, abortion, Obama

Aug 5, 07 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Republican presidential candidates were mostly civil to each other in today's debate in Iowa, but they hammered Democrats on foreign policy and taxes. The tensest exchange occurred early, the Washington Post reports, when Sam Brownback accused Mitt Romney’s wife of working for Planned Parenthood. Romney called the charge... More »

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Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • Barack Obama • Iowa • Republican • Fred Thompson • presidential debate • vice president • Tom Tancredo • Ann Romney

GOP Voters Undecided, Unhappy

'None of the above' leads Republican hopefuls; Dems heavily favor Clinton

Jul 17, 07 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani has the support of 21% of Republicans in a new poll—down from 27% in June, which is bad enough, and second to the most popular option: none of the above. John McCain stands fourth, a notch below undeclared candidate Fred Thompson, in the most recent AP-Ipsos poll,... More »

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Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • John Edwards • Rudy Giuliani • Fred Thompson • GOP • Mike Huckabee • Republican voters • Democratic voters • AP Ipsos poll • African-American voters • presidential election

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