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DRIVING OUT SHERRY Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress who is now serving his 12th term from upstate New York, might not seek re-election in 2006 if he is shut out from committee chairmanships. Boehlert is serving his last year as Science Committee chairman thanks to term limits. Although he is next in line to head the Transportation Committee (a principal dispenser of pork), current Chairman Don Young of Alaska is expected to block Boehlert's ascension. Boehlert's lifetime support record by the American Conservative Union is only 40 percent. A footnote: Rep. Tom Petri of...

Ranked by the editors of Human Events1. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.)Once approached by Democratic Leader Harry Reid to switch parties, Chafee has long supported liberal polices. He backs legal abortion, gay rights, federal-funded health care, strict environmental protections and a higher minimum wage. Opposes ANWR drilling. Also was the only Republican in Congress not to endorse the President's reelection and one of three who tried to gut Bush's tax cuts.

The crop of possible Democratic candidates mulling a run at Rep. Sherwood Boehlert's seat in the 24th Congressional District keeps growing. Three high-profile Democrats from Oneida County confirmed this week that they're pondering the possibility of campaigning against Boehlert, R-New Hartford, next year. They are Oneida County District Attorney Michael Arcuri, Utica lawyer Leon Koziol and Jeff Miller, a Utica College teacher who lost to Boehlert in 2004. Also, Les Roberts, a Democrat from Cincinnatus, Cortland County, has filed a candidate disclosure form with the Federal Election Commission, indicating his candidacy for the 24th District. Roberts lectures part time at...

We are disappointed U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert will not call for the state's Indian tribes to be held to the same laws as everyone else, and ask that the Cayuga Nation's land-in-trust application be denied. Boehlert last week announced that he helped secure an extension so that Cayuga and Seneca counties could have more time to respond to the Cayugas' application with the Department of the Interior. The tribes, having lost their bid for land sovereignty earlier this year (Oneidas v. Sherrill), are now petitioning to have the land put in trust, a way for them to sidestep the Supreme...

WASHINGTON--According to the Gannett News Service, which cannot be posted or excerpted from, leading RINO Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (NY) has alienated some Republicans by speaking out and voting against the party line. As a result, Boehlert may have a third party or primary challenger, in addition to expected Democratic opposition.

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON - Two leading moderate House Republicans told reporters Thursday that the House should elect a new majority leader to replace Rep. Tom DeLay. Chris Shays of Connecticut and Sherwood Boehlert of New York joined a handful of conservative Republicans who have said they want an election, which would have the effect of permanently removing DeLay from the leadership. One of them, Jeff Flake of Arizona, said Thursday that he "may represent the silent majority" that could gradually go public with the same sentiment. DeLay, R-Sugar Land, had to step aside as majority leader, the No....

The three federal lawmakers representing constituents affected by the Cayuga Nation land claim in Cayuga County have demonstrated distinct approaches to the crucial issue of land-in-trust applications. With the news this week that the Cayugas have officially requested some of their holdings be placed in trust - which would remove them from the tax rolls and essentially make them sovereign - it is now time for these members of Congress to make their voices heard. So far, only Sen. Charles Schumer is serving land claim residents properly on this key question. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert has done some good work, but...

Republican Congressman Sherwood Boehlert has not said if he plans to seek re-election next year, but he knows one thing is for sure-former Seneca Falls Mayor Brad Jones-also a Republican-will not replace him. Boehlert said he's feeling good, exercising regularly and eating healthy since his surgery. He also said he's leaning toward running for re-election but won't make that decision until next year. "Look if it's not me, it's not going to be him. . . .He just would not reflect the views of this district. . . .There's no indication he has any support except a handful of friends...

U.S. House of Representatives N E W S R E L E A S E For Immediate Release: October 21, 2005 Davis, Waxman, Sensenbrenner, Conyers, Boehlert, and Gordon React To GAO Report on Security Problems With Electronic Voting Systems Washington, D.C. - Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Judiciary Committee Chair F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), and Science Committee Chair Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and Ranking Member Bart Gordon (D-TN), issued the following statements upon today's release of the Government Accountability Office's report, "Federal Efforts to Improve Security...

So now that the federal courts have pretty much said Indian nations in New York cannot claim land they own as sovereign, here comes a congressman from California who says he will settle the matter once and for all. Pardon us, U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo, but we don't need your intervention. Pombo, R-Calif., has made statements recently about New York's land claim cases that can only be described as arrogant and misguided. As the chair of the House Committee on Resources, he oversaw a hearing on land claim issues earlier this year. Apparently after listening to a handful of speakers...

Tompkins County, home to liberal-haven Ithaca, should have at least one thing going for it: most of the county is in an 11-county congressional district that is overwhelmingly Republican. So much so that the Dems often don't even bother to field a candidate. So you'd think the congressman would be a solid Republican. But no-o-o-o-o-o. To the contrary, Sherry Boehlert is a super-RINO. And no better evidence of that sad fact could be had than Boehlert's vote yesterday against the bill to expand refinery capacity. That's right: despite Katrina, despite $3 gas, despite no refineries having been built in the...

AUBURN NY--A federal Department of Interior official said the U.S. Supreme Court's city of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation decision applies to the Cayuga Nation's purchase of land within their land claim area on the open market. Based on the Sherrill decision, when taxes are not paid, the Cayuga Nation's property would be subject to foreclosure, Associate Deputy Secretary James Carson wrote in a Sept. 22 letter to U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford. Boehlert had contacted the department of behalf of Seneca County attorney Steven Getman. Carson wrote that questions about the legality of the tribe's bingo halls in...

2006 Congressional Election Cycle Has Begun  50 Republican Incumbents Undeserving of Support by Pro-life Voters   The Republican National Coalition for Life PAC is currently receiving phone calls from Republican candidates for Congress in the 2006 Republican primaries. Our usual practice is to mail our Candidate Questionnaire to Republican candidates in each district as soon as the filing deadlines are reached. When we receive the results of the questionnaire, they are recorded on our website at www.RNCLife.org so that voters can see for themselves it those seeking to represent them in Washington are truly pro-life. We hope that this service...

Catholic Church officials were set to bar Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, a Republican who supports abortion rights, from speaking at a utica nursing college commmencement ceremony, officials said Tuesday.

Yesterday, New York Congressman Sherwood Boehlert who was scheduled to speak at the commencement of St. Elizabeth Hospital nursing graduates at Our lady of Lourdes Church in Utica, New York was disinvited.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. An upstate Republican congressman says federal lawmakers shouldn't have gotten involved in the Terri Schiavo (SHY'-voh) case. Sherwood Boehlert of Oneida County didn't return to Washington for today's vote on a bill to give the brain-damaged woman's parents the right to ask a federal judge to order doctors to reinsert her feeding tube. Boehlert told Binghamton radio station W-N-B-F that -- in his words -- "Congress has no business injecting itself" into the case. He said he would not have voted for the bill had he been at the unusual early-morning House session. Boehlert noted the Schiavo case...

In case you haven't heard, the Marriage amendment got shot down in the house: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134134,00.htmlHere's the Republicans voting Nay: Bass Biggert Bono Castle Cox Dreier Foley Frelinghuysen Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Greenwood Hobson Hostettler Houghton Johnson (CT) Kirk Knollenberg Kolbe Leach McInnis Ose Paul Pryce (OH) Sanders Shays Simmons Here's the republicans not voting: Boehlert Cannon Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dunn Hunter Nethercutt Ros-Lehtinen Tauzin Be sure to contact these people & show your appreciation. Here's the list of Dems voting FOR: Berry Bishop (GA) Boucher Boyd Carson (OK) Chandler Cooper Costello Cramer Davis (AL) Davis (TN) Edwards Etheridge Ford Gordon...

Rep. Sherwod Boehlert, one of the most liberal of Republican congressmen, Tuesday won an unexpectdly easy Republican nomination for a 12th term from his upstate New York district after receiving support from abortion rights activists, the White House and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Boehlert in 2000 defeated conservative Dr. David Walrath by fewer than 3,000 votes but this time won with 58 percent of the vote against the same opponent. Gingrich surprised conservatives by campaigning for his onetime comrade in the House despite Boehlert's 39 percent lifetime American Conservative Union rating. Earlier, presidential senior adviser Karl Rove attended a...

The mailboxes of Republicans in the 24th NY congressional district have been deluged with glossy full-size mailings in support of incumbent Boehlert in Tuesday’s primary. Unfortunately, many of the mailings have been a textbook case of slanted, negative attack ads, assaulting challenger Walrath while never substantively discussing issues. Taking a different tack, the "positive" Boehlert mailings highlight photos of Presidents Bush & Reagan, hoping that voters will assume Boehlert is cut from the same cloth. However, others have named him a quintessential RINO, with an American Conservative Union lifetime vote rating below 40%. Even the NEA has sent mailings in...

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign and a liberal watchdog group launched attacks on Friday to either ban Unfit for Command or restrict sales of the book, which the group's president called "the Hitler Diaries of this political season." In an article entitled "Unfit for Bookstores," Eric Boehlert of Salon.com reported that a representative of the Kerry campaign had said Regnery Publishing, which printed Unfit for Command, is retailing a hoax and should consider withdrawing it from bookstores. "No publisher should want to be selling books with proven falsehoods in them, especially falsehoods that are meant to smear the...