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	Harold "Hal" Rogers - Congresspedia
		Hal Rogers was one of the largest recipients of Brown and Williamson Political Action Committee (I"BACPAC") funds in the 1980s, receiving $1,000 from BACPAC in the 1980-81 election cycyle.
		Rogers was born in Monticello, Kentucky December 31, 1937.
		In 2003 the Daniel Boone Parkway, a part of the Kentucky system of toll roads, was renamed the Hal Rogers Parkway (over the objection of some historians) in honor of Rogers efforts to have the parkway's construction bonds paid by the federal government.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Hal_Rogers (996 words)

	Issue: U.S. Congressman Zach Wamp : 3rd District Of Tennessee : Congressman Hal Rogers and Kentucky's 5th District ...
		The Tennessee Valley Corridor is pleased to formally announce the addition of Congressman Hal Rogers and the Fifth congressional district in southern and eastern Kentucky to the growing science and technology corridor first formed by Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) in the mid-1990s to accelerate technology development and new high-tech job creation in southern Appalachia.
		Rogers service as chairman of an Appropriations Subcommittee places him in the "College of Cardinals," the elite group of 13 House members who chair a House Appropriations Subcommittee and have jurisdiction over the $750 billion in federal appropriations that fund the nation's government programs.
		Rogers joins Tennessee Congressmen Zach Wamp (R-Chattanooga), John J. Duncan (R-Knoxville), Bill Jenkins (R-Rogersville) and Lincoln Davis (D-Byrdstown), as well as Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher (D-Abingdon), and Alabama Congressmen Bud Cramer (D-Huntsville) and Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) in leading the multi-state effort.
	www.house.gov /list/speech/tn03_wamp/tnvalleycorridor_nov1303.html (616 words)

	MarketAccess International - Harold "Hal" Rogers (Site not responding. Last check: )*
		Rogers is also a member of the Select Committee on Homeland Security, which has legislative jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Act that established the federal department.
		Rogers has been one of the strongest critics of wasteful spending at the fledgling Transportation Security Administration and pushed the agency to deliver the highest level of security in the most efficient and fiscally responsible manner possible.
		Rogers’ congressional district consists of 28 counties in southern and eastern Kentucky.
	www.marketaccess.org /bio_rogers.asp (624 words)

	Angels & Demons
		Hal talked to the man for only a few moments before he understood what was happening.
		It described Hal as "a hot-tempered, distant man who hid his eyes behind dark glasses." It talked about how Hal had posted his brother John's bond in the rape case and about the questions raised by the bond.
		The Rogers attack was probably not his first, the profile said, because such predators usually require experience before they are confident enough to approach more than one victim at a time.
	www2.sptimes.com /angels_demons/neighbors.5.html (1605 words)

	USATODAY.com
		Harold "Hal" Rogers is the dean of the Kentucky congressional delegation with 11 terms in the U.S. House.
		Rogers' only statewide race was a lopsided loss as the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 1979.
		In addition to his transportation subcommittee chairmanship, Rogers is a senior member of the appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water, which funds the Army Corps of Engineers and the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, which controls budgets of many law enforcement, immigration, international trade and economic development agencies.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/CandidateProfile.aspx?ci=208&oi=H (525 words)

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		Harold "Hal" Rogers was born on a farm at Barrier in Wayne County, Ky., and lives in Somerset, Ky. He went to public schools in Wayne County, graduated from Wayne County High School in 1955 and went into radio as a local reporter and announcer.
		Harold "Hal" Rogers won local election as commonwealth's attorney for Pulaski and Rockcastle counties in 1968 and twice was re-elected.
		Rogers got 79 percent against Democrat Walter Blevins in the Republican landslide of 1994.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22626 (415 words)

	Highway name change irritates Kentucky folk - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rogers, a Republican from Somerset, has represented eastern Kentucky in Congress for 23 years and helped obtain the $13 million in federal funding that allowed the state to eliminate tolls on the parkway.
		Rogers deserves having the highway named after him because of his impact on the region socially, environmentally and politically.
		"Hal Rogers is a wonderful man, and he's done a lot for this region, but renaming that road is going to hurt more than it's going to help," Miss Ramos said.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20030806-104048-3673r.htm (594 words)

	New York Daily News - City News - Michael Daly: Mike's buttinsky pal stiffs city (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rogers is chairman of the House subcommittee on homeland security, and he seemed to strike up a genuine friendship with Mayor Bloomberg last year when the mayor was seeking more counterterrorism money for New York.
		Rogers surely needed no public nudging to see that New York was not getting its due share when measured per capita, much less when measured in terms of threat.
		Rogers said that "hundreds of agricultural documents have been found in the Al Qaeda caves." He also suggested that Maine deserved special consideration because some of the hijackers spent the night in a motel there before flying off to murder thousands in New York.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/204484p-176503c.html (755 words)

	SUDBURY KINSMEN CLUB: Our Founder Hal Rogers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Founder Hal was born in London, Ontario on January 3, 1899.
		Hal was gassed at Paschendaele and later was wounded by shrapnel near Amiens.
		This was presented to Hal in Prince Albert by a prominent past Kinsman, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
	users.vianet.ca /kinsmen/Founder.htm (403 words)

	1998 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE WRITING, Works
		Inmates housed with Rogers confirmed that John was a loner with few friends inside the prison and that he did not have the connections to arrange a triple homicide.
		As they conducted their investigation, however, the detectives discovered that John Rogers was not the only member of the family whose behavior had raised questions.
		Hal knew that John was accused of raping Michelle, and yet he had personally posted the $10,000 surety bond.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1998/feature-writing/works/Chapter_2/3.html (1217 words)

	BluegrassReport.org: Hal Rogers
		Hal Rogers (R) is as big of a crook as those in Congress now under investigation but that things either haven't yet floated to the surface -- or the feds aren't letting it be known...yet?
		Rogers, creating jobs in his home district and profits for companies that are donors to his political causes.
		Rogers took this as an opportunity, inserting language into appropriations bills requiring that the new ID card rely on old technology that was produced at a plant in his district.
	www.bluegrassreport.org /bluegrass_politics/hal_rogers/index.html (1863 words)

	Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers Biography
		Rogers tenaciously pursues initiatives that promote the long-term economic growth of his rural district.
		Rogers also serves as a senior member of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary, which controls the budgets of many of the nation's law enforcement, economic development, international trade, and immigration agencies.
		In January of 2003, Rogers' colleagues selected him to be the first chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, which is responsible for funding and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
	www.ebsbi.com /district5/bio.htm (646 words)

	KentuckyRoads.com - Daniel Boone Parkway/Hal Rogers Parkway
		Yonts proposes the parkway be officially known as both the Hal Rogers Parkway and the Daniel Boone Parkway.
		Rogers helped secure federal money to remove tolls from the parkway; In May, Governor Paul Patton directed that the parkway be renamed as the Hal Rogers Parkway.
		Transportation officials and U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers commemorated the occasion on June 9 at the London toll both on the Daniel Boone Parkway.
	www.kentuckyroads.com /daniel_boone_parkway (4544 words)

	Center for Rural Strategies : Rural Reality : Congressman Rogers
		Rogers, a Republican representing rural eastern and southern Kentucky, sent a letter to CBS President Leslie Moonves asking him to drop the show, which is not yet scheduled for broadcast.
		Rogers said CBS is shirking its public responsibility by considering a show such as “The Real Beverly Hillbillies.” “Your attempt to earn cheap laughs and big bucks at the expense of rural Americans is an abuse of the public airwaves on which you broadcast.”
		Rogers is the third member of Congress to go on record against the proposed CBS program.
	www.ruralstrategies.org /campaign/rogers.html (318 words)

	The GOP Auction House: Hal Rogers of Kentucky
		Rogers voted against allowing millions of Americans to save their hard-earned dollars on prescription drugs by re-importing them from Canada, even though these were U.S. made and patient safety was ensured.
		Rogers voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.
		Rogers opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.
	www.dccc.org /gopauctionhouse/members/HalRogersKY-5.html (699 words)

	New Signs in Kentucky
		Overhead on I-75 north with the new Hal Rogers Parkway signage.
		New Hal Rogers Parkway sign at the end of the ramp from I-75 north to KY 80.
		This is the new Hal Rogers Parkway signage, at the end of new KY 30 in London.
	www.millenniumhwy.net /new_signs_ky_2007/new_signs_ky_2007.html (1237 words)

	Contact
		This year’s award was presented to Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY) at the AHC’s annual Congressional dinner in Washington, DC on April 2.
		Congressman Rogers, a senior members of the House Appropriations Committee, was elected to Congress from Kentucky’s fifth district in 1980.
		Understanding the importance of the problem, Chairman Rogers sponsored a provision amending the Interstate Horseracing Act to clarify that the federal law allowed interstate wagering on pari-mutuel racing and left it to each state to license and regulate the activity.
	www.horsecouncil.org /news/010402HalRogers.html (455 words)

	Hal Rogers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harold Allin Rogers, O.C., O.B.E. Hal Rogers was born January 3, 1899 in London, Ontario.
		Subsequently, he was made a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International, was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction, and, in 1992, when he was 93 years of age, he received the Canada 125 medal.
		Hal Rogers passed away on September 15, 1994 at the beginning of the 75th year of the Association of Kinsmen and Kinettes of Canada.
	www.stampedecitykinsmen.com /halroger.htm (284 words)

	Descendants of Daniel Boone feel insulted by politicians (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She's launched a campaign to get Kentucky lawmakers to right what she sees as the wrong created in 2003 when former Gov. Paul Patton's administration changed the name of the Daniel Boone Parkway to the Hal Rogers Parkway in honor of a U.S. representative from Somerset.
		Rogers, however, is a 13-term incumbent Republican who uses his position to bring federal highway money to eastern Kentucky to create and pave roads through the mountainous terrain.
		Instead, lawmakers in the state Senate offered a compromise that would keep Rogers' name on the parkway and give the frontiersman recognition by renaming the four-lane U.S. 25E from Cumberland Gap to Corbin the Daniel Boone Wilderness Road.
	www.messenger-inquirer.com /news/kentucky/8057720.htm (490 words)

	REAL PEOPLE... the podcast. Hal Rogers Podcast
		Hal introduces people who share their unique passion.
		Hal plays a talk he gave 6 years ago on his passing friend of 15 years, Daisy, and reflects on grieving.
		Hal interviews Don, a clairvoyant 76 year old whose lifelong psychic abilities are chilling.
	www.digitalpodcast.com /detail.php?id=9520 (439 words)

	Daniel Boone's Name Dropped From Ky. Road (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rogers, a Republican from Somerset, has represented eastern Kentucky in Congress for 23 years and helped obtain the $13 million in federal funding that allowed the state to eliminate tolls on the road.
		The decision to rename the parkway was announced in June at a ceremony in which Rogers participated in the symbolic toppling of a toll collection booth.
		``Hal Rogers is a wonderful man, and he's done a lot for this region, but renaming that road is going to hurt more than it's going to help,'' she said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/959102/posts (2436 words)

	GOP.gov - House Transportation Appropriations Panel to Hear Progress Report on Airline Delays Issue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, U.S. Representative Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-5), says he will once again convene a senior panel of federal officials and aviation representatives to review their individual progress on work to reduce the nation’s problem of airline delays and cancellations.
		Rogers initiated the efforts of the working group at a March 15th hearing on the airline delays issue.
		In addition to the hearing Thursday, Chairman Rogers has also agreed to be a guest earlier that morning on the live C-SPAN program “Washington Journal” from 8:00 to 8:40 a.m.
	www.gop.gov /item-news.asp?docId=42877 (442 words)

	Daniel Boone Legend - Hazard, KY - Perry County History
		Hal Rogers may not have been responsible for changing the name of the Daniel Boone parkway but he can damn sure be responsible for changing it back before his road signs get torn down along with what's left of his reputation.
		Rogers has made some wonderful contributions to the state and it would be nice to see him recognized for his accomplishments, but not at the expense of one of the greatest pioneers in all of American history.
		Hal Rogers - a man that hands out 'free' septic tanks (at the cost of people who work) to people who CHOOSE not to work, and I know that a great portion of them did not vote for him in the first place.
	hazardkentucky.com /more/boone.htm (15980 words)

	The 10 Worst Congressmen : Rolling Stone
		So Rogers forced the government to spend $4 million to test the factory's technology -- steering some of the work to a tiny company that hired his son.
		When the factory flunked the test, Rogers delayed the process again, demanding that prototypes for new cards be built in Kentucky.
		Rogers also steered a no-bid contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to a trade group with no relevant experience in airport security -- after the group paid for Rogers to take six trips to Hawaii and one to Ireland.
	www.rollingstone.com /politics/story/12054520/the_10_worst_congressmen/9 (357 words)

	Lake Cumberland Community - lakecumberland.com
		U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers put $500,000 in this year's federal budget to build a parking lot for a private resort on Lake Cumberland that is owned by one of his campaign contributors.
		Rogers, who represents southeast Kentucky's 5th Congressional District, directed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to assist J.D. Hamilton, who bought the Lee's Ford Marina Resort in 2003 and is promising to make sweeping improvements.
		At the time, Rogers was angling for the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, on which he is a senior member.
	www.lakecumberland.com /forum/viewthread.php?tid=5544 (1033 words)

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