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  Jon Kyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kyl was born in Oakland, Nebraska, the son of John Kyl, a United States House of Representatives U.S. Representative for Iowa.
Kyl served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995.
Kyl appeared in the U.S. national news near the end of the campaign as an example of a case where some bloggers were attempting to influence search engine results for searches on Kyl's name, using Google bombs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Kyl   (794 words)

  
 Jon Kyl - dKosopedia
Jon Llewellyn Kyl (born April 25, 1942, Oakland, Nebraska) is a Republican Senator, representing Arizona.
Jon Kyl went to the University of Arizona, and graduated with honors.
Kyl once sent a letter urging the chairman of the Latvian Parliament not to expel one Joachim Siegerist from the body (for a lack of Latvian language proficiency).
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Jon_Kyl   (399 words)

  
 Jon Kyl - Congresspedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jon Llewellyn Kyl is the junior U.S. Senator, representing Arizona.
Kyl served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987-1995 and was first elected to the Senate in 1994.
In February 2006, Kyl and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) cited a conversation regarding the Detainee Treatment Act in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Jon_Kyl   (611 words)

  
 President's Remarks at Jon Kyl for Senate Dinner
Jon Kyl also understands what history has taught us, that democracies bring the peace we all want; that democracies don't fight with their neighbors; that democracies lay this foundation for a better future.
Jon Kyl supported the tax cuts, and he, like me, believes for the sake of economic vitality, we need to make the tax cuts permanent.
Jon Kyl understands clearly that the role of the federal government is to enforce the border of the United States of America, which is precisely what we're going to do.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2005/11/20051128-9.html   (2029 words)

  
 Conundrum of immigration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jon Kyl, in a wide-ranging discussion of issues related to the war in Iraq and domestic security, said he has every reason to believe there already are terrorists in the United States, including Arizona.
Kyl said some of the problem results from the fact that large stretches of the border on the U.S. side are national monuments, Indian reservations and other areas where the Border Patrol has been restricted from going off roads.
Kyl, who used to be a volunteer lobbyist for the Phoenix Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce before running for national office, expressed little sympathy.
www.azcentral.com /abgnews/articles/0403kyl03.html   (660 words)

  
 Right-Web | Individual Profile | Jon Kyl
Kyl is the honorary co-chairman, along with Senator Joe Lieberman, of the third incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger.
Kyl is also the honorary co-chair of the National Security Advisory Council of the Center for Security Policy, a hawkish neocon policy institute that cited the success of the second Committee on the Present Danger when it was founded in 1988.
Kyl and Nevada's Senator Harry Reid introduced an amendment to the 1997 Defense Authorization bill that gave the president the option of testing, but this bill was defeated.
rightweb.irc-online.org /ind/kyl/kyl.php   (1295 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com - News - Stealth Zealot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kyl and his staff argue that he is not at all the radical conservative, or the Bush water boy, he is portrayed to be.
Kyl was born in northeastern Nebraska, near the small college town of Wayne, where his father led the chamber of commerce and served as a principal, then later, superintendent of schools.
Kyl's idol, Goldwater, was arguing for limited government and strong national defense in the months before he launched his campaign for the presidency.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/2006-04-13/news/feature_full.html   (5463 words)

  
 Sen. Jon Kyl tries to step out from McCain's shadow : ICT [2006/01/24]
Kyl is a little more Richie Cunningham: measured, predictable, a beloved son of conservative Republicans.
Kyl certainly is not the only lawmaker to be outshined by a fellow senator from the same state.
Kyl campaign consultant Jaime Molera said of the senator: ''I think he's a big believer that at the end of the day he'll be judged by his work as a senator, not on his ability to get on the news.''
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412332   (688 words)

  
 Senator Jon Kyl Probes Use of Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kyl also used his opening remarks to highlight the need for the Mexican government to take greater responsibility for controlling illegal immigration, noting that Grupo Beta and possibly other organizations succeeded in reducing border crossings to a trickle during the Minuteman project, proving their previously unused capabilities.
It was part of a larger effort by Kyl and Cornyn to help educate the Congress, the Administration, and the public on the need to enforce immigration laws in order to protect the United States from terrorist and criminal threats, as well as to restore integrity to the rule of law.
Kyl thanked the witnesses for providing valuable information and pledged to work to remove as many such restrictions as possible within Congressional authority, and continue his efforts to provide more funding for the technology and related needs of DHS.
www.azconservative.org /Kyl_Tech.htm   (556 words)

  
 Arizona Democratic Party
It is time for Jon Kyl to apologize to the Supreme Court, the citizens of Arizona, and his colleagues for misleading them.
Jon Kyl and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina got together to write a fictional debate, including banter and interruptions from other Senators, and quietly slipped it into the Congressional Record after a debate on the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Then Kyl implied that the “debate” was live in a legal brief he filed with the Court, and the Bush administration, to prove its case, referenced the Kyl-Graham “debate” in its court filings.
www.azdem.org /article/258/jon-kyl-outed-misleading-the-supreme-court   (413 words)

  
 The quiet conservative - Senator Jon Kyl National Review - Find Articles
Kyl has argued for sanctions against Russia unless it stops helping Iran's nuclear-weapons program; challenged the Administration to list the IRA and PLO as terrorist organizations; and pushed hard for anti-missile defenses.
Even Kyl's office in the Senate Hart Building has a spruce and spare quality: Just a few pictures of his wife of 33 years and their two children, a shot of his cabin in northern Arizona, a standard-issue desert landscape, and a clock.
With Kyl, you always knew you were dealing with a serious man, someone who was capable of seeing beyond the next election." When a Senate seat opened up in 1994, Kyl ran and won by a 14-point margin.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n25_v49/ai_20208921   (929 words)

  
 TIME.com: Jon Kyl: The Operator -- Page 1
As head of the Republican policy committee, the ultraconservative Kyl is in charge of shaping the Republican agenda in the Senate on everything from abortion and judicial appointments to national security and tax cuts.
It turned out that Kyl was behind it, having worked on the language for months and having assigned his staff to help write the final bill.
When urgent legislation to respond to Hurricane Katrina bumped Kyl's long-sought goal of a vote on abolishing the estate tax last fall, Kyl quietly worked to get it back on the Senate agenda by recruiting Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions in an unsuccessful attempt to find victims of the disaster who would be paying the tax.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1183960,00.html   (634 words)

  
 Desert Rat Democrat: Jon Kyl Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jon Kyl backed out of a live television appearance last night - apparently unwilling to defend the charge that Kyl "Hates Latinos".
Kyl, as a Senator running for his third term, is a relatively known quantity in Arizona.
Kyl took $17,000 from the Pharmaceutical industry in the 3rd quarter.
www.desertratdemocrat.com /archives/jon_kyl   (1167 words)

  
 DSCC : Jon Kyl Constantly Fails Arizona's Veterans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Time and time again, Jon Kyl has had a chance to protect veterans' interests, and especially to expand access to essential health care to those who fought so hard to keep America safe.
Kyl Voted Against Veterans' Health Care FIVE TIMES This Year, Despite Warnings of Budget Shortfall Before the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a $1 billion budget shortfall earlier this year, Kyl voted twice against $1.98 billion for veterans' health care, while also opposing a proposal to increase veterans' health care funding by $2.8 billion.
In March 2003, Kyl voted against increasing funding for veterans programs by $1.019 billion, the level proposed by a coalition of veterans groups, and offsetting the new spending by decreasing proposed tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
www.dscc.org /news/roundup/20051110_kyl   (769 words)

  
 Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl speaks about Native issues : ICT [2006/02/10]
According to Kyl, ''The law provides significant funding to enable both tribes to build water infrastructure to meet reservation needs.'' The Gila River and Tohono O'odham are situated in areas that receive scant annual rainfall, as does much of Arizona's populated areas.
Furthermore, Kyl added, ''The law set aside more than $250 million that tribes may use to settle their water-rights claims in the future.'' The Arizona Water Settlements Act does not become effective until certain additional actions are taken by the various parties to each of the settlements.
Kyl was instrumental in passing legislation (PL108-34) that settled the Zuni's claims to water on sacred lands in northeastern Arizona.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412452   (1433 words)

  
 Jon Kyl on Abortion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
KYL: Some of his ads are downright false, distortions even according to the Arizona print media.
KYL: You have declined to announce your constitutional view of Roe, despite repeated attempts by some of my colleagues.
KYL: I would defend your right to decline to say in advance how you would rule on matters that could come before you.
www.ontheissues.org /Social/Jon_Kyl_Abortion.htm   (992 words)

  
 Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Senator Jon Kyl of AZ
Kyl failed to oppose the Graham Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
If Senator Kyl represents you, call him up and ask him why he has no interest in affirming the civil rights of all Americans, even the rights of those Americans who have the gall to be unpopular.
Rather, Senator Kyl cravenly accepted the bizarre notion that a man with an anti-constitutional record, and who is unwilling to share his point of view regarding the constitution, is worthy of being elevated to the position of Chief Justice.
irregularnews.com /senate/senKylAZ.html   (2518 words)

  
 Poker players against Jon Kyl
Kyl is a douche; unfortunately the guy he's running against is also a douche and stands no chance of knocking out of the senate.
Kyl is running a commercial where his fellow senator -- John McCain -- is quoting a favorable Time magazine article.
I hate Jon Kyl as much as anyone, and not just because he's an enemy to this industry, but I'll be "wasting" my vote on a third party too.
www.pocketfives.com /702F33E7-2467-411D-820B-C676E6389DAF.aspx   (1331 words)

  
 HORIZON: Eight/KAET Public Affairs Program
Arizona's race between Republican incumbent Jon Kyl and Democratic challenger and former state Democratic Party chairman Jim Pederson is expected to be one of the most important and hotly contested U.S. Senate races this year.
Kyl's lead was 22 percent three months ago.
As you probably know, Republican U.S. Senator Jon Kyl is running for re-election this fall, His opponent is businessman and former Democratic state chairman Jim Pederson.
www.kaet.asu.edu /horizon/poll/2006/4-25-06.htm   (1219 words)

  
 Jon Kyl | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com
Jon Kyl is running in the U.S. Senate, Arizona race.
See how Jon Kyl voted on key votes -- the most important bills, nominations and resolutions that have come before Congress, as determined by washingtonpost.com.
View Jon Kyl's 2005 official financial disclosure statement, which describes the sources, types and amounts of income earned in 2005.
projects.washingtonpost.com /congress/members/k000352   (444 words)

  
 DSCC : Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jon Kyl and Jim Pederson once again locked horns on far-reaching topics in their final showdown on Friday, but for the first time, they discussed Arizona at length.
It is "much ado about nothing." That's Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl's take on the controversy surrounding his and South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham's submission to the U.S. Supreme Court of their fictitious Senate floor debate regarding treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Yesterday's elections were a wake-up call for Jon Kyl: While candidates who tied themselves to Bush directly lost handily, others were defeated because of their past support of the embattled President.
www.dscc.org /2006races/az   (2266 words)

  
 Kyl fundraising nears $3M in 2005's fourth quarter - The Business Journal of Phoenix:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kyl is a top ally of Bush on Capitol Hill and has said he would welcome future support from the president as well as other administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney.
Kyl counters that his skepticism on that front is due to safety and oversight concerns about foreign drugs.
Kyl is seeking his third term in the U.S. Senate and is well-liked by business groups, thanks to his support for tax cuts, repeal of the federal estate tax and free trade pacts.
www.bizjournals.com /phoenix/stories/2006/01/16/daily11.html?from_rss=1   (798 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Terrorism: Growing Wahhabi Influence in the United States by Jon Kyl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ, chaired hearings on "Terrorism: Growing Wahhabi Influence in the United States" last Thursday, June 26, before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.
I come before this body to describe how adherents of Wahhabism, the most extreme, separatist, and violent form of Islam, and the official sect in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, have come to dominate Islam in the U.S. Islam is a fairly new participant at the "big table" of American religions.
Jon Kyl is a Republican Senator from Arizona.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Readarticle.asp?ID=8715   (6916 words)

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