Sam Brownback

The Senate Armed Services Committee may have approved Rep. John McHugh’s (R-N.Y.) bid to become Army secretary last week, but CQ reports that Kansas’ two Republican senators, Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, are putting a hold on McHugh until the Obama administration clarifies whether it plans to move Guantanamo detainees to their state’s Leavenworth prison. [...]

At a Saturday barbecue for the Leavenworth County, Kans., Republican Party, former Bush administration lawyer and current secretary of state candidate Kris Kobach made the case for stricter voter ID laws by questioning the citizenship of President Obama.
A professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kobach kept the mood light with a political [...]

The Congressional Research Service has issued a report analyzing the opinions of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and concluded, just as previous studies of her opinions have, that she is anything but a judicial activist.
Notwithstanding her much-decried “wise Latina woman” claim, it turns out Sotomayor is no liberal activist hell-bent on replacing the Constitution’s equal protection clause [...]

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) has announced that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, making him the third senator to come out against Sotomayor, reports Congressional Quarterly.
Brownback joins Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in an anti-Sotomayor Dust Bowl trio.
“Judge Sotomayor has indicated through past rulings and in her [...]

The national politics of the Sebelius fight have been complicated by the politics of Kansas.

The Senate, which overcame a meager attempt yesterday by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) to stop Chris Hill’s nomination to be ambassador to Iraq, just voted to confirm the new top diplomat to Baghdad. Here’s Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) statement:
“It took much longer than it should have, but I am pleased that Chris Hill has finally [...]

Or maybe it won’t take so long. The Senate just voted 73-17 to close debate on Chris Hill’s nomination to become U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) presented his case against Hill and said that he’d introduce his bill to reintroduce sanctions against North Korea tomorrow, alongside the final vote on Hill. Barring [...]

As I noted earlier this month, the Senate takes up Chris Hill’s nomination to become ambassador today — right now they’re voting on some Justice Department nominees — and Laura Rozen reports that this is going to be as melodramatic and drawn-out as possible.
With a cloture vote expected possibly later tonight on the nomination of [...]

The North Koreans have kicked out the International Atomic Energy Agency, insisted they’re going back to nuclear weapons and declared the six-party talks over because the United Nations was mean to them. No one is taking this as anything more than a temper tantrum. For instance:
“I’m sure North Korea thinks they can get a better [...]

DS at Diplopundit — who I gather is a Foreign Service Officer…? – points out that there’s a cloture vote for Chris Hill’s nomination to be ambassador to Iraq on the Senate calendar for April 20 at 5:30 p.m., the first day back from the Congressional recess. I left a message with a spokeswoman for [...]