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Pennsylvania Republican Politician Richard John ''Rick'' Santorum New.
Congress.gov biography:
"SANTORUM, Richard John (Rick), a Representative and a Senator from
Pennsylvania; born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., May 10, 1958;
B.A., Pennsylvania State University 1980; M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh
1981; J.D., Dickinson School of Law (Pa.) 1986; administrative assistant
to Pennsylvania State Senator J. Doyle Corman 1981-1986; director, Pennsylvania
State senate local government committee 1981-1984; director, Pennsylvania
State Senate Transportation Committee 1984-1986; admitted to the bar in
1986 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh; elected as a Republican to the
One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses (January 3, 1991-January
3, 1995); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives
in 1994, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1994 and reelected
in 2000 for the term ending January 3, 2007; Republican Conference chairman
(2001-2007); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 2006."
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20061108
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 Election
2006 -  US
-  Iraq
-  Military
-  Missouri
-  Montana
-  Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- Santorum
-  Rhode
Island -  Ohio
-  Indiana
-  Kentucky
- "Democrats
win House control in midterm elections; Senate still in doubt."
... "Democrats took over the House in Tuesday's midterm elections but Senate
control might take weeks to decide, in an election shaped by voter discontent
with President Bush and the direction of the Iraq war." ... "Democrat Claire
McCaskill's victory over incumbent [Republican] Sen. Jim Talent in Missouri
has put Senate control within her party's grasp. Two Senate races remained
undecided early Wednesday -- Montana, where a Democratic challenger led,
and Virginia, where another Democratic challenger was ahead by the slimmest
of margins. Democrats must win both to seize Senate control." ... "Four
incumbent Republicans lost in the Senate. Pennsylvanians voted out conservative
stalwart Rick Santorum [Republican] — the No. 3 GOP leader in the Senate
— in favor of Democrat Bob Casey; Rhode Island voters picked Democratic
challenger Sheldon Whitehouse over incumbent Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee;
Ohio voters chose Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown over Republican incumbent
Mike Dewine; and McCaskill beat Talent." ... "Democrats also won major
House races in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky and the closely contested
governor's race in Ohio, the AP projected. And Democrats seized a majority
of the nation's governorships for the first time in 12 years."
-USATODAY
20060801
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Rick
Santorum
- Pennsylvania
- "In
potential boost for Santorum, GOP aids Green candidate."
... "Thanks to the generosity of GOP donors, a Green Party candidate is
expected to make it onto the ballot in Pennsylvania's Senate race and siphon
votes away from Democratic front-runner Bob Casey in his bid to unseat
Republican Sen. Rick Santorum." ... "While Santorum said Monday that he
would welcome another candidate on the ballot, Casey's campaign accused
Republicans of "trying to steal the election."" ... "Green Party candidate
Carl Romanelli, making his first bid for statewide elective office, acknowledged
Monday that Republican contributors probably supplied most of the $100,000
that he said he spent gathering signatures to qualify for the Nov. 7 ballot."
... "Political observers say Romanelli's candidacy would likely draw votes
away from Casey, the state treasurer, who has held a double-digit lead
over Santorum for months." -By Peter Jackson with
contributions by Kimberly Hefling -AP
via -MercuryNews
20060622
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US
- Iraq
- Military
-
 Intelligence
- Rick
Santorum
- Pennsylvania
- Pete
Hoekstra -  Michigan
- "Lawmakers
Say WMDs Were Found In Iraq ... Kind Of: Report reveals
discovery of degraded chemical weapons likely buried in 1980s." ... "You'd
think that after the numerous revelations of faulty prewar intelligence
and the failure to find the dangerous weapons cache allegedly stockpiled
by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration would
be shouting from the rooftops about finding weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq." ... "Instead, in a hastily called news conference on Wednesday,
a pair of Republican lawmakers told reporters that it turns out we did
find those WMDs after all, even though the White House and the intelligence
community have admitted that no such weapons caches had been discovered."
... "According to The Washington Post, Representative Peter Hoekstra
[Michigan Republican], chairman of the House intelligence committee, and
Senator Rick Santorum [Pennsylvania Republican] made the announcement,
based on an unclassified summary from a report by the National Ground Intelligence
Center regarding 500 chemical munitions shells that had been buried near
the Iranian border." ... "Of course, most of those weapons were buried
by Iraqi troops during their eight-year war with Iran — which ended in
1988 — and were long forgotten." -By Gil Kaufman
-MTV.com/News
20051207
-
Bill
Frist
- Rick
Santorum - Tom
DeLay
-
 Medical
-  Law
- "Terri
Schiavo's widower takes aim at politicians." ...
"Terri Schiavo's widower launched a political action committee on Wednesday
aimed at defeating elected officials he accused of exploiting a tragedy
for political gain by trying to block court orders that allowed his brain-damaged
wife to die." ... "Michael Schiavo said in a news release that the group,
TerriPAC, would raise money to campaign against members of Congress, mostly
Republicans, who drafted and voted for legislation to intervene in the
case." ... "Among Republicans it is targeting are Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist of Tennessee, Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Tom
DeLay of Texas." -By Jane Sutton
-Reuters
20051111
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US
- Iraq
- Military
- Intelligence
-
 Political
-  History
- Pennsylvania
- "Newsview:
Bush Returns to Campaign Playbook." ... "President
Bush seems to be turning the clock back to Election Day 2004, parrying
with ex-rival John Kerry and harshly questioning his critics' commitment
to U.S. troops." ... "You can't blame him for being nostalgic for better
political times, when most Americans felt he was a strong, honest leader
and gave him the benefit of the doubt on Iraq." ... "That's certainly not
the sentiment these days. With his approval ratings plunging, even some
Republican leaders are showing signs of abandoning Bush's listing ship."
... ""Mistakes were made," Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania
said Friday of the war effort." ... "When the president visited Pennsylvania
to defend his Iraq policies on Friday, Santorum kept his distance, literally
and rhetorically. He was 120 miles away, telling reporters the war in Iraq
has
been "less than optimal" and that "maybe some blame could be laid" at the
White House." -By Ron Fournier
-AP via-WashingtonPost
20050713
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- Massachusetts
- Religion
- Gay
- "Santorum
resolute on Boston [Massachusetts] rebuke: Insists
liberalism set stage for abuse." ... "Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania,
the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off
on his earlier statements connecting Boston's ''liberalism" with the Roman
Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's ''sexual license"
and ''sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would
occur." ... "Santorum has startled Washington in the past. In a 2003 interview
with the Associated Press, he linked ''man on child" and ''man on dog"
sex with homosexuality, describing them as deviant behaviors that threatened
traditional marriage. Earlier this year, he apologized for comparing the
Democrats blocking President Bush's judicial nominees to the Nazi leader,
Adolf Hitler." -By Susan Milligan
-Boston/Globe
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- "Minimum
wage hikes die in Senate: Partisan battle keeps level
for US at $5.15." ... "In the past, Republican Senate leaders have thwarted
Democrats' attempts to bring the minimum wage to the Senate floor. Yesterday
they allowed the vote on a Democratic plan to raise the wage by $2.10 over
the next 26 months, and on a separate proposal by Senator Rick Santorum,
Republican of Pennsylvania, for hiking the minimum by $1.10 over the next
18 months, but also exempting more businesses." ... ""I would hope candidly
that we didn't pass either of these at this time," said Santorum, chairman
of the Senate Republican Conference, who nonetheless voted for his amendment."
... "Democrats accused Republicans of offering a misleading alternative
and conducting a debate with a foregone conclusion, to protect themselves
politically." (1, 2)
-By Rick Klein
-Boston/Globe
