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Congress.gov biography:
"KYL, Jon Llewellyn, (son of John Henry
Kyl), a Representative and a Senator from Arizona; born in Oakland, Nebr.,
April 25, 1942; B.A., University of Arizona, Tucson 1964; LL.B., University
of Arizona 1966; admitted to the Arizona State Bar in 1966 and practiced
law as a member of Jennings, Strouss and Salmon, in Phoenix 1966-1986;
chairman, Phoenix Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce 1984-1985; elected as
a Republican to the One Hundredth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1987-January 3, 1995); was not a candidate for reelection to
the House of Representatives in 1994; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1994 and reelected in 2000, and again in 2006 for the
term ending January 3, 2013; chair, Republican Policy Committee (2003-2007),
Republican Conference (2007-)."
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20080527
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 John
McCain -  Rick
Renzi - Jon
Kyl -  Money
-  Politics
-  Federal
-  Investigation
-  Phoenix
-  Arizona
-  Real
Estate -  Land
-  Legislation
-  Nevada
- "FBI
interviews Arizona staffers." ... "Federal agents
interviewed staffers for likely [2008 Election] Republican presidential
nominee [and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain (Ariz. [Arizona]) as part
of their corruption case against [Arizona Republican
Representative] Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.[Republican-Arizona])."
... "[United States] U.S. Attorney for the District
of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed the interviews
with aides for McCain and fellow Arizona Republican [Senator] Sen. Jon
Kyl in a written response to Renzi’s attorneys, who asked for the contents
of the interview to help prepare for Renzi’s upcoming trial, which is scheduled
for October [2008]." ... "The aides
were interviewed about land exchanges, according to an April letter from
Humetewa filed with the U.S. District Court of Arizona late last week."
... "A federal land swap critical to developing a $3 billion copper mine
southeast of Phoenix [Arizona] is at the heart of the case against Renzi,
who is facing 35 public corruption charges, including conspiracy, money-laundering,
extortion and insurance fraud." ... "Renzi is alleged to have told executives
for Resolution Copper Mining that he would not support a land deal the
mining company was interested in unless they bought his former business
partner’s property as part of the deal, according to the [February] Feb.
22 federal indictment." ... "Under the deal, 5,000 acres of non-federal
land owned by Resolution Copper were to be exchanged for 3,025 acres of
federal land. The federal land sits on a large copper deposit, and the
exchange would have allowed mining on land for the first time since a 1954
executive order by [Republican] then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower." ...
"Renzi allegedly wanted land owned by a business partner who owed Renzi
money to be included in the deal. If the land had been included, prosecutors
charge, it would have allowed the business partner to pay a debt to Renzi."
... "Resolution Copper refused to cooperate, but another company, Preserved
Petrified Forest Land Investors LLC [Limited Liability Company] of Las
Vegas [Nevada], agreed to buy the land. Prosecutors allege this netted
Renzi more than $700,000." ... "Renzi twice introduced a land swap bill,
in 2005 and 2006, before taking his name off of the measure after the FBI
[Federal Bureau of Investigation] raided his family business in April 2007.
[Arizona Democratic Representiave] Rep. Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.[Democratic-Arizona])
then introduced the legislation on [August] Aug. 1, 2007, along with Arizona
[Republican Representatives] Reps. Jeff Flake and John Shadegg, both Republicans,
and Democrat[ic Representative] Harry Mitchell (D[Democratic])." ... "Sens.
McCain and Kyl introduced companion legislation in the Senate, most recently
in July 2007. " (1, 2)
-By Susan Crabtree -TheHill.com
20070804
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John
McCain
- US
Immigration - Law
- Arizona
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 South
Carolina -  California
-2008
Election - "Republicans
hardening stance on immigration." ... "An anti-immigration
backlash has taken hold among Republicans in the Capitol, led in some cases
by the staunchest supporters - [2008 election Republican Presidential Candidate
and Arizona Senator] Sens. John McCain and [Republican Senator] Jon Kyl
of Arizona and [Republican Senator] Lindsey Graham of South Carolina -
of the failed Senate bill derided by many as amnesty." ... "[California
Democratic Representative] Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a San Jose [California] Democrat,
fended off GOP efforts Friday to block what in normal times would be noncontroversial
"private bills" to remedy the most compelling individual plights of a handful
of illegal immigrants caught in the labyrinth of immigration law." ...
"Late Thursday night, Republicans walked out of a House vote to protest
what they said was an attempt by Democrats to reverse a GOP win on a motion
to deny benefits to illegal immigrants in an agriculture spending bill."
... "Republicans said the vote was gaveled to a close as members were still
voting, and that they actually prevailed 215-213." ... "Democrats apologized
the next day for the snafu, but refused to change the vote in which they
ultimately defeated the anti-illegal immigrant measure." -By
Carolyn Lochhead -SFGate.com
20060511
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 Privacy
- Law
-  Terrorism
- Politics
-  Secret
-  Military
- Government
-  Intelligence
- Phone
-Database
- VT
- Ariz.
- "NSA
Program Revealed: An article in Thursday's USA Today
reported that three of the largest U.S. phone companies [AT&T, Bell
South and Verizon] have been providing the National Security Agency with
phone records from millions of Americans since 9/11."
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SEN. PATRICK LEAHY, D-Vt.: "Look at this headline."
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KWAME HOLMAN: "Only hours after it appeared in print, the story that the
National Security Agency secretly has been gathering a giant database of
phone records set off a firestorm on Capitol Hill. Vermont Democrat Patrick
Leahy was visibly angry about it and lashed out at the Bush administration
at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting scheduled to discuss judicial nominations."
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SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: "Only through the press, we begin to learn the truth.
The secret collection of phone call records tens of millions of Americans.
Now, are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved
with al-Qaida? If that's the case, we've really failed in any kind of a
war on terror."
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KWAME HOLMAN: "Arizona Republican Jon Kyl responded."
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SEN. JON KYL, R-Ariz.: "This is nuts. We are in a war, and we've got to
collect intelligence on enemy, and you can't tell the enemy in advance
how you're going to do it."
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KWAME HOLMAN: "Emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, the lengthy
report said the code-breaking National Security Agency contracted three
of the nation's largest phone companies to provide records of home and
business telephone calls made by their customers." ... "The NSA earlier
was revealed to have been monitoring, without warrants, international phone
calls and e-mails thought to be linked to terrorists." ... "USA Today telecommunications
reporter Leslie Cauley spent the last several months preparing today's
story."
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LESLIE CAULEY, USA Today: "The NSA is collecting the call detail records
of millions of ordinary Americans."
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KWAME HOLMAN: "The companies reportedly contracted by the spy agency are
AT&T, Bell South and Verizon."
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LESLIE CAULEY: "The pitch to the phone companies was: We feel this information
can be very helpful in smoking out, you know, and tracking suspected terrorists.
And, again, three out of the four agreed."
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KWAME HOLMAN: "But Qwest, a telecommunications company that provides local
phone service to 14 million customers in 14 western and northwestern states,
reportedly refused to participate."
-PBS /NewsHour
20050917
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Alabama
- Arizona
- Hurricane
Katrina - Disaster
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- "Looking
for a Corpse to Make a Case: Senators look for a
wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax." ... "Federal
troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept.
9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky,
co-author of Sessions' legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which
was encountering sudden resistance on the Hill. Sessions had an idea to
revitalize their cause, which he left on Apolinsky's voice mail: "[Arizona
Sen.] Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody
that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something
we could push back with."" ... "If legislative ambulance chasing looks
like a desperate measure, for the backers of repealing the estate tax,
these are desperate times. Just three weeks ago, their long-sought goal
of repeal seemed within reach, but Katrina dashed their hopes when Republican
leaders put off an expected vote." -By Massimo Calbresi
with contributions by Amanda Ripley
-TIME.com
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