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Anonymous ID: f05dbc Sept. 4, 2018, 9:40 a.m. No.2873406   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Jon Kyl

On April 8, 2011, Kyl spoke on the Senate floor and claimed that performing abortions is "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

 

He currently works in the lobbying group at the law firm Covington & Burling.

 

In 2003, Halliburton hired the firm to lobby Washington on behalf of its KBR Government Operations division, the same division being pummeled by the media, the Pentagon and Congress for its handling of Iraq contracts. Covington & Burling was paid $520,000 to handle "inquiries concerning company's construction and service contracts in Iraq," the firm said in a filing.

Anonymous ID: f05dbc Sept. 4, 2018, 9:42 a.m. No.2873420   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3440

jon kyl

 

Works for Law Firm Covington & Burling

 

Covington & Burling represented tobacco interests for decades, instrumental in the founding of, and serving as counsel to, the Tobacco Institute, established in 1958

Anonymous ID: f05dbc Sept. 4, 2018, 9:43 a.m. No.2873441   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Jon Kyl

Works for Covington and Burlington - Our guy for Gitmo -

 

Representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates

Attorneys at Covington & Burling have been Guantanamo Bay attorneys for Ahmed al-Ghailani[39] fifteen Yemenis, one Pakistani, and one Algerian being held at Guantanamo Bay. The firm obtained favorable rulings that detainees have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.[40] The court ruled in March 2005 that the government could not transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to foreign custody without first giving the prisoners a chance to challenge the move in court.

 

According to The American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, "the firm's largest pro bono project that year".

Anonymous ID: f05dbc Sept. 4, 2018, 9:56 a.m. No.2873611   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Jon Kyl

 

Obama Soaks the Rich, Drowns the Middle Class

 

October 28, 2014, The Wall Street Journal

 

Senator Jon Kyl authored this article on the effect that tax hikes have on the middle class:

 

Most workers’ pay has not kept up with inflation for at least six years. Even as hiring picked up over the past year, wages and salaries have inched up by 2%, barely ahead of inflation. This probably explains why half of Americans say the recession never ended. They are experiencing what Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen last week described as “stagnant living standards for the majority.”

 

Why aren’t wages rising? There are several reasons, including that many jobs today don’t pay as well as the ones lost during the recession. ObamaCare has made health insurance more expensive for businesses—as the nation’s biggest employer, Wal-Mart , recently reported—and that takes a bite out of take-home pay. Yet one factor is often overlooked: the tax increase on “the rich” at the beginning of 2013.

Anonymous ID: f05dbc Sept. 4, 2018, 10:15 a.m. No.2873851   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3866

Kyl said the president who catalyzed his conservative political views was President Ronald Reagan, who he said helped set a bipartisan consensus for future generations. “At the time that [Reagan] became the leader of the conservative moment in the country, I think that there was a very strong consensus, not just among conservatives or the Republican Party, but a lot of Americans, that a strong free market, the values of America and a strong national security policy were the three key elements of the national government,” he said.

 

He said this consensus held through the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush but has not survived the last eight years.

 

“[The consensus that] had gradually eroded, to be fair, among Democrats first, is no longer. Republicans pay lip service to it but I don’t think they pay enough attention substantially to it as they should,” Kyl added.

 

The former GOP whip said that at the time, the difference between Kennedy and Reagan would have been “this much,” indicating a small amount with his fingers. Lieberman seconded that it would have been small.