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Rep. Ilhan Omar's attorneys demand return of property seized in federal search of her homeAttorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar are asking the Justice Department to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an investigation into her citizenship status was “neither justified nor lawful.” In a letter obtained Friday by The Associated Press, lawyers for the Democrat from…
New report examines whether spending requested by Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall raised his property valueIn Washington, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has criticized colleagues for steering federal tax dollars to local projects without going through the standard appropriations process. Earmarks, also commonly known as pork-barrel spending, allow lawmakers to advance pet projects in their districts with little oversight. Marshall has described them as wasteful and…
GOP senator said gas prices would decide the midterms. Now they’re threatening his reelectionBy Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas boldly declared in July that “the midterms will be decided by the price of gasoline in October.” That prediction now looks strikingly prescient — though not in the way Marshall may have hoped: October has arrived with gasoline prices sharply higher,