Jon Kyl
Summary
Jon Llewellyn Kyl (pronounced /ˈkaɪl/) (born April 25, 1942) is the Republican junior U.S. Senator representing Arizona. He is currently the Senate Minority Whip, tasked with maintaining party discipline. Jon Kyl was born in the Midwest and moved to Arizona for college and law school. He later married and launched his career in Arizona. He ran for the House of Representatives in 1986 and then the United States Senate in 1994. He has been in the Senate since 1995.In 2010, Sen. Kyl was recognized as one of the 2010 Time 100 most influential people in the world.Kyl was born in Oakland, Nebraska, the son of Arlene Pearl (née Griffith) and John Henry Kyl, a teacher at Nebraska State Teachers College.
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Congress in a race with states to pass online gambling law
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - States racing to legalize online gambling may soon be overtaken by the federal government, as efforts to pass a national bill begin to come together.
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Why misspelled names are so common & what journalists are doing to prevent them
Warren Buffett, Michele Bachmann and Elliott Gould all have something in common: they know what it’s like to have journalists repeatedly misspell their names.
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Dan Froomkin: Politifact's Road To Salvation
Yesterday, I sent an email to Politifact editor Bill Adair, expressing my horror over his group's decision to designate "Republicans voted to kill Medicare" as the "lie of the year. " (See, for an exegesis of that misbegotten choice, Steve Benen, Paul Krugman, Jamison Foser, Charles Pierce, Jason Linkins, et. al.
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Max Stanley: How Revisionist Reporting Hurts Everyone
Media lapdogs are marked by stenographic tendencies, sympathetic frames and a reliance on industry jargon. Politico's latest report about Congressional Republicans working to undo looming defense cuts meets all three criteria.
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Jon Kyl’s search-and-destroy mission
Jon Kyl stopped the supercommittee cold.
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Right-Wing Media Praised GOP For Walking Out On Default Crisis Talks, Now Attack Obama
Following reports that President Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) had a "blow up" while negotiating solutions to the default crisis, in which Cantor accused Obama of "abruptly walking out" of the talks, right-wing media have attacked Obama as a "petulant child" for allegedly doing so. However, in June, right-wing media praised Cantor and Sen.
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Depending On Your Point Of View, The GOP Is Either "Agreeing To New Revenues" Or "Caving" In Defeat
David Brooks caught a lot of frenzied pushback from conservative circles when he took a look at the "3-to-1 rate of spending cuts to revenue increases" that was on the table in the debt ceiling negotiations and concluded that the GOP would be nigh-upon-insane to not take the deal. But it's looking more and more like Brooks might be poised to take a victory lap on this one, because after seventy-two hours of sturm und drang, the GOP seems poised to accept a deal that includes a piddling amount of revenue increases.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Oh, hello, there everyone! Welcome once again to your quickly typed recap of the bright images and dim ideas that flicker across my teevee screen as I aim my TiVo at Sunday mornings political chat shows. My name is Jason. Hey, New York. Look at you. My, you are looking just today.
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The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Newton Leroy Gingrich
As everyone knows, this was the week that the federal government hit its deficit ceiling. That was the story everyone thought would dominate the week. Yet, somehow, Newt Gingrich surprised everyone by managing to hit his own first. And in the first full week of his life as an official candidate for president, too! For well over a decade, Gingrich had flirted with running for president, and just over a week ago, he finally decided to officially take the plunge.
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Jon Kyl Sponges Remark That Was 'Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement' From Congressional Record
I missed this when it was reported a couple days ago, but apparently, a few days after Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz. ) stood on the Senate floor and misled America about what proportion of Planned Parenthood's activities were related to abortion -- which begat his famous "not intended to be a factual statement" excuse that brought a torrent of ridicule down upon him -- Kyl had his false statement stricken from the Congressional Record.
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