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Peter Roskam
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by Josh Kalven
9:40am
Thu Oct 30, 2008
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Hardball Highlights "Obama Voters For Roskam" Website (UPDATED)

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Just minutes after interviewing GOP Rep. Peter Roskam's former boss -- Tom DeLay -- on Hardball last night, host Chris Matthews briefly reported that Roskam has launched a website intended to lure 6th District supporters of Barack Obama, which we noted on Tuesday.  Watch it...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
7:10pm
Tue Oct 28, 2008

Roskam Creates Website To Lure "Obama Voters"

IL-6

In a recent fundraising appeal, GOP Rep. Peter Roskam noted Barack Obama's "14-point lead in his west
suburban district," according to a report yesterday in Crain's.  The 6th District incumbent must be pretty scared because he's now launched an "Obama Voters ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
6:23pm
Tue Oct 28, 2008

Roskam Refuses To Talk To NBC About Abortion Comments

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Reporting on the 6th Congressional District race today, NBC 5's Mary Ann Ahern noted Democratic challenger Jill Morgenthaler's criticism of a comment made by GOP Rep. Peter Roskam at a recent editorial meeting.  Ahern reported that Roskam "would not talk about that ...

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by Adam Doster
2:35pm
Mon Oct 27, 2008

Roskam: Why Can Women Have Abortions If Rapists Can't Be Executed?

Peter Roskam

GOP Rep. Peter Roskam, uncorked:

Morgenthaler, who vaulted over Roselle businessman Stan
Jagla in the Democratic primary election with 77 percent of the vote,
calls Roskam an "ideologue" because, for example, he opposes abortion
even in the case of ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
4:01pm
Thu Oct 23, 2008

Watchdog Group Files Complaint Against Roskam (UPDATED)

Congress

What is GOP Rep. Peter Roskam thinking?  According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, 6th Congressional District residents have reported receiving taxpayer-funded mailings from Roskam between August 18 and October 7.  Congressional ethics law prohibits members from using ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
5:45pm
Tue Oct 14, 2008

Federal Housing Bill Finally Hits Home

Housing

Some indirect federal help
is on the way for those Illinois homeowners and municipalities who've become
collateral damage in the foreclosure crisis. An additional $170 million
worth of federal aid is headed for 13 Chicago-area cities and counties
to help local authorities ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:28am
Tue Sep 23, 2008
2 comments

Roskam Continues To Peddle Offshore Drilling Lie

Peter Roskam

While touting his and Rep. John Shimkus' Energy VISION Act amid the first wave of the Republicans' "Drill Baby Drill" hysteria in July, GOP Rep. Peter Roskam grossly misrepresented how much oil was available on the Outer Continental Shelf, as we documented at the ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:40am
Fri Sep 19, 2008

Debating The Debates

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Lots of congressional debate news this week, so let's run through it all.

First, 11th District GOP candidate Marty Ozinga is complaining about the choice of Southtown Star columnist Kristen McQueary as the moderator of a September 25 debate between he and Democrat ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
3:38pm
Fri Sep 12, 2008
2 comments

The "Drill Baby Drill" Brigade

Peter Roskam

Besides Sarah Palin, the phrase "Drill Baby Drill" has done more to
unify the Republican Party than presidential nominee John McCain could
ever have managed himself. Why has offshore oil drilling assumed such
an important role in our energy debate? It's because ...