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WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) today co-sponsored the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill (H.R. 197). This legislation would protect the rights of licensed firearm permit holders by allowing them to carry firearms across the country without a confusing patchwork system. "The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill recognizes that those who have a valid state-issued concealed firearms permit should not have to forfeit their safety when traveling," said Tiahrt. "Not only does this bill protect the rights of concealed firearm permit holders, it also maintains the right of states to issue concealed weapons permits as they desire. As a mobile society, legal firearm...

Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Kansas said he would not back Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Tiahrt said she "holds some liberal views that I cannot support," including abortion. President Barack Obama nominated Sebelius this week as secretary of HHS. Tiahrt called the choice "par for the course." Only the Senate will vote on Sebelius, so Tiahrt, who intends to run for the Senate next year, will have no vote.

Differences between Moran and Tiahrt Several readers have been wondering about how the current race for U.S. Senate will shake out. What separates these candidates? There are few policy differences between Congressmen Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt - both of whom are fiscal and social conservatives. After listening to several GOP operatives across Kansas, this is what SRK is hearing about the differences between Moran and Tiahrt. Tiahrt - More of a Fighter Todd Tiahrt is labeling himself as a proven fighter against Obama, Sebelius and Pelosi. His official office has released numerous press releases highlighting his firm opposition to...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was a long way from the rural and suburban congressional district she used to represent when she met Monday with the mother of a 17-year-old girl who was shot and killed in Brooklyn last month. It's in places like Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Nyasia Pryear-Yard died at a teenagers' night club, that the issue of guns changes so dramatically that Ms. Gillibrand has to re-examine how she thinks. Protecting the rights of gun owners and showing a sensitivity toward hunting must be reconciled with stopping gun violence. Ms. Gillibrand has a new and very different constituency. She represents, for...

Now Obama Debuts Pledge to Make Guns 'Childproof' Surprising very few of us, we see that once in office, Obama is more open about his gun control efforts at WhiteHouse.gov: Address Gun Violence in Cities: Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children...

"It is another resounding defeat for Mayor Bloomberg," a vice president at the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Lawrence Keane, said. The foundation is a trade association for the firearms industry. "Now, Speaker Pelosi will have to decide whether she wants a gun fight on the floor or not," he said. A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, said the speaker was against the Tiahrt Amendment but had no further comment yesterday."

WASHINGTON - Mayor Michael Bloom- berg's aides threatened to run negative ads against House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey if pro-gun legislation opposed by the mayor was passed in that committee, Obey claimed yesterday. The mayor's office denied the charge. Speaking during a committee session, Obey (D-Wis.) said Bloomberg aides told his staff that TV ads painting him as anti-law enforcement would be run in his district if the provision, known as the Tiahrt Amendment, restricting police use of federal gun checks, was passed. "The Mayor's staff came into my office, and rather than discuss the merits, they simply did...

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty yesterday said he is close to a decision on whether city officials will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal court ruling that would repeal the District's 30-year-old handgun ban. "We're planning to make that announcement within the next week," Mr. Fenty said yesterday. "We're still exploring all of our options." The Supreme Court appeal must be filed within 90 days of May 8, the date a federal appeals panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to reconsider its earlier ruling in the case. That gives Fenty administration officials...

Now is the time for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver on her pledge to reverse the gun lobby’s pernicious handcuffing of law enforcement officials trying to track the flood of illegal firearms. For years, police used the federal government’s extensive gun data files to trace firearms used in crimes from manufacture to retail purchase, laying bare the minority of unscrupulous dealers who abet the underworld. But four years ago, police access to the databank was cut off by the politically potent gun lobby’s many panderers in Congress.

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Continue To Urge Support Of Tiahrt Amendment   Friday, June 01, 2007   For more than five years, cities suing the gun industry and anti-gun organizations have sought access to confidential law enforcement data on firearm traces — records that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) compiles when it traces firearms in response to requests from law enforcement agencies.  Every year since 2003, the U.S. Congress has passed increasingly strong language to keep this information confidential. The legislation—a series of "riders" to the appropriations bill that funds BATFE—is...

The members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are scheduled to vote today on the Tiahrt amendment, a piece of legislation that has been in the crosshairs of Mayor Bloomberg since the beginning of his campaign against illegal guns in 2006. Lobbyists for and against the amendment said in interviews that they were scrambling to talk to lawmakers and their aides as the vote approached. "This is our no. 1 legislative priority on Capitol Hill," the executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute of Legislative Affairs, Christopher Cox, said. "I've been running around like crazy."

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March for Life National Mall Washington, District of Columbia (United States) Gray, Nellie, President, March for Life Pence, Mike, U.S. Representative, R-IN 33rd Annual March for Life on the National Mall. President Bush is expected to speak via audio connection.

Rep.Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) made an emotional return to the House floor Tuesday night for the first time since his 16-year-old son, Luke, died from suicide in late July. Fellow Congress members, his professional staff members and House ushers embraced him as all around him expressed their sorrow and support. During the hour of voting, Tiahrt, 53, stood amid friends Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who are said to have been closest to him throughout the past month. File photo Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pence said, “It was the gutsiest thing I have seen in my entire...

U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt's youngest son, Luke, was found dead Saturday morning in the family's Fairfax, Va., home. Tiahrt's spokesman Chuck Knapp said 16-year-old Luke apparently committed suicide. Officers were called to the Tiahrt house around 4:30 a.m. No foul play is suspected, said Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Mary Mulrenan. A medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death, Mulrenan said. Luke Tiahrt would have been a junior in high school this fall. Funeral arrangements are pending. Todd Tiahrt is a Republican from Goddard who represents the 4th District in Congress. The Tiahrt family is asking...

Lawmaker Produces for NRA 7/22/2004 Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas) is getting the attention of gun-control advocates as his sponsorship of pro-gun bills increases, the Wichita Eagle reported July 19. "Tiahrt hasn't been a name on the radar screen, but he's moved right up there," said Jon Vernick, a director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Recently, Tiahrt introduced an amendment that could thwart New York City's lawsuit against gun makers by blocking access to federal gun data. "I'm trying to contain nuisance lawsuits," he said. "The whole lawsuit precedent is very dangerous....

Tiahrt advocates national sales tax to help create jobs Ken Vandruff A national sales tax is just one part of a package that U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, says will help prevent outsourcing of jobs overseas and aid the creation of jobs at home. Tiarht coupled the call for a national sales tax with the elimination of all income taxes. He says it will help make American products more cost-competitive in Europe and Japan. The congressman says he's seen research that shows that taxes make up 22 percent of the cost for everything made in this country. "People would have...

Associated Press WASHINGTON - The government will destroy records on gun buyers after one day because of a provision Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt inserted into the spending bill that became law last week. The length of time for keeping records will be shortened from 90 days to one day after a gun buyer passes a background check. First proposed two years ago by Attorney General John Ashcroft two years ago, the change is a victory for gun rights advocates who argue that keeping the records is an invasion of privacy. Gun control advocates say that destroying records immediately will handicap...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Members of Congress took a tour of Iraq's dilapidated infrastructure Sunday, giving them a firsthand look at the daunting task of rebuilding the nation before they vote on President Bush's $87 billion funding request. Meanwhile, Iraqi police and U.S. forces seized weapons in Baghdad and the north of the country after a small but symbolic rocket attack on a U.S. compound in the Iraqi capital.Rep. Jim Walsh, a New York Republican and member of the 17-member Congressional delegation visiting Iraq, said at the end of the daylong tour that the lawmakers were convinced Iraq has ``tremendous...

WASHINGTON - Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore has raised $124,479 toward his re-election next year, while the GOP challenger hoping for a rematch, Adam Taff, has raised $29,232, according to campaign finance reports. Meanwhile, Republican U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback pulled in $364,020 for his 2004 Senate campaign, which has not yet attracted a Democratic challenger. Reports to the Federal Election Commission, due Tuesday, cover the first three months of this year. The closest anyone has come to challenging Brownback was when Moore flirted with the idea earlier this year. But the Kansas City, Kan.-area congressman announced last month he would...