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Articles about Roger Marshall
In June, Roger Marshall Said Gas Prices Were 'Absolutely the Barometer for This Election.' Now He Says Kansans Care About Things 'More Important Than Money.'
Roger Marshall spent the summer saying the price of gas in October would decide the midterms, and predicting it would come down. Gas in Kansas is up more than 56% since the Iran war began. Now he says 'there are things more important than money to Kansans.'
Roger Marshall Wrote a Bill to Free a New Kind of Farm Chemical From Pesticide Rules. His Wife Is Invested in Two Companies That Make It, Through His Longtime Donor's Firm.
Roger Marshall's longtime business partner Dan Tasset runs Nueterra, a private equity firm whose rural hospitals collapsed and left workers unpaid. A Nueterra fund owns two farm-chemical startups his wife invests in, and Marshall wrote the bill that would exempt their products from pesticide regulation.
Eight Republicans Are Campaigning on a $50 Billion Rural Health Fund. It Comes From the Same Law That Cuts $137 Billion From Rural Medicaid.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
Roger Marshall Told a Kansas Manufacturer Squeezed by Trump's Tariffs That His Experience Was 'Different From Most'
A Meriden metal-fabrication executive told Marshall tariffs had cut demand, squeezed margins and stalled an expansion. Marshall called him the exception and doubled down on the policy that the New York Fed says has pushed up prices on everyday goods.
Roger Marshall Voted Four Times to Ban Earmarks. Then He Asked for $4.2 Million to Send Water Past His Own Ranch.
Roger Marshall calls earmarks 'not American.' In 2024 he requested a $4.2 million one for a Kansas water project that runs along the creek beside Rattlesnake Ranch, which he co-owns — and he never mentioned it.
Roger Marshall Charged His Patients 18% Interest and Sued Them When They Couldn't Pay. His Campaign Left a Kansas Bakery Unpaid for Six Years.
A Hutchinson bakery owner says Roger Marshall's 2020 campaign never paid a $678 bill for his primary-night watch party, despite a year of calls and emails. He paid only after her post went viral. As a doctor, The Kansas City Star found, he charged patients the highest interest rate of about 150 Kansas practices it reviewed.
Roger Marshall's Chief of Staff Booked Campaign Trips on the Taxpayer Dime. 'Primary Purpose Is What We Say It Is,' He Texted.
Texts, calendars and video from Roger Marshall's 2020 Senate run show his office using taxpayer money and congressional staff for campaign work. Ethics experts call it 'breathtaking.'
Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.
States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.
Roger Marshall Put a Photo of Kids at a Kansas Summer Camp in an Ad About Child Abuse. The Camp Never Gave Permission — and the Abuse Didn't Happen There.
Tall Oaks Camp in Linwood says Marshall's attack ad on Adam Hamilton used a photo of young people in its chapel without permission, creating 'a misleading association' with abuse that 'did not happen here.' His campaign said the ad was 'corrected' — hours later, a version online still had the chapel in it.
Republicans Cut Medicaid by Nearly $1 Trillion. They Scheduled the Pain for After You Vote.
The Big Beautiful Bill cuts Medicaid by close to $1 trillion over 10 years, and the Congressional Budget Office says the law will leave 10 million more people uninsured. Republicans made sure the biggest cut doesn't start until 2027 — after the midterms. 198 Republicans on this site voted for it.
Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
Roger Marshall Calls a Former Patient's Ad 'a Complete Lie.' His Own Lawyers' Letter Doesn't Deny His Practice Sued Her and She Was Arrested.
Roger Marshall's lawyers sent Adam Hamilton a cease-and-desist letter over an ad featuring Meischa Zimmerman, one of the 700-plus patients his practice sued. The letter argues over why she was arrested — not whether.
Roger Marshall Voted to Give ICE Nearly $70 Billion and Said 'Nothing Has Changed in How ICE Operates.' Now ICE Is in Dodge City and He's in a Close Race.
For a year, Roger Marshall cheered ICE and voted to fund it. Now that immigration raids have hit Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal, shut down meatpacking lines and caught local police by surprise, and a new poll shows him narrowly trailing, he wants ICE to 'coordinate with our local law enforcement.'
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
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Roger Marshall attacks his opponent's homes but barely lives in Kansas
Kansas Senator Roger Marshall loves to attack his political opponent for owning four homes, but public records show he barely lives in the state he represents.
Roger Marshall Attacked a Pastor's Ministry Until 120 Kansas Ministers Wrote and Asked Him to Stop. He Told a Reporter He Hadn't Read the Letter.
One hundred twenty Kansas clergy told Marshall his attacks on the United Methodist Church 'tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.' His answer: 'I've not read the letter' — and he repeated the beef-sermon claim, which the AP reports was stitched together from two parts of one 2020 sermon.
Roger Marshall Attacks His Opponent for Owning Four Homes. His Family Pays About Five Times More Property Tax in Florida Than in Kansas.
Records show Roger Marshall's ballot goes to a Kansas P.O. box, he held Florida fishing licenses from 2019 until May, his wife listed their Sarasota house as her main address, and the family pays roughly five times more in property taxes in Florida than in Kansas.
Tom Cotton Asked for His Arkansas Ballot to Be Mailed to Virginia. Mike Rogers Campaigned From His Florida Mansion. Zach Lahn's Plane Spent More Nights in Kansas Than at His Iowa Home.
Eight Republicans on the 2026 ballot want to represent places where the paper trail — mortgages, ballots, flight records, voter rolls — keeps pointing somewhere else: Virginia, Florida, Kansas, or the next district over.
Roger Marshall's Medical Practice Sued More Than 700 of His Own Patients Over Their Bills. 81 of Them Were Arrested.
Before Kansas sent him to the Senate, Roger Marshall was an OB-GYN whose practice took more than 700 patients to court over unpaid bills, charged 18 percent interest, garnished their paychecks and bank accounts, and asked judges for arrest warrants when they missed a hearing. One woman was sued over a $129 postpartum visit.
Roger Marshall Said the Epstein Files Should Be Public. Then He Cast One of the 51 Votes That Killed the Amendment to Release Them, and Called It a 'Political Stunt.'
On September 10, 2025, Marshall voted to table the amendment forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It failed 51-49. Five months earlier, two Blackstone executives whose names appear in those files gave his campaign $13,000.
Fifty Republican Senators Voted Against Even Debating an End to the Boat Strikes. A Year Into the Campaign, 227 People Are Dead in a "Year of Murders".
Five weeks into the boat strike campaign, the Senate voted on whether to pull U.S. forces out of a fight Congress never authorized. It failed 48-51. Fourteen Republican senators we track voted no, and thirteen of them voted no every time it came up again.
Kansas Doctors Told Roger Marshall His Vote Would Cost Their Patients Care. The OB/GYN Kansas Sent to the Senate Said 'There Are No Medicaid Cuts' and Called It a Lie.
Kansas is projected to lose $3.9 billion in Medicaid funding under the law Roger Marshall voted for, with $2.7 billion of it coming out of hospitals. Asked about it, Marshall said there are no cuts and that saying otherwise is a lie.
Fourteen Republican Senators We Track Confirmed RFK Jr. After He Said His Samoa Trip Had 'Nothing to Do With Vaccines.' He Had Already Written the Prime Minister Asking to Study Samoa's MMR Vaccines.
The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Roger Marshall Charged Kansas Taxpayers $18,886 for 14 Official Trips Through the Part of Florida Where He Owns a Beach House
The Kansas City Star found Roger Marshall's taxpayer-funded travel through Sarasota was four times larger than earlier reporting showed. One flight came five days after he signed off on a boat lift at his Florida house. The house is now listed for $1.45 million.
2.6 Million Americans Have Already Lost Their Health Insurance. These Republicans Voted to Let It Happen.
The enhanced ACA tax credits expired and enrollment fell 12% nationwide — 32% in Ohio and Oklahoma. Here is the collapse state by state, and the fourteen Republicans who voted for it.
More Than 40 Republicans Just Asked the Attorney General Not to Defend a 92-Year-Old Gun Law in Court
A Texas judge threw out the registration rules for silencers and short-barreled rifles. Six days later, Andrew Clyde — who owns two gun stores — led a letter asking DOJ to skip the appeal and stop enforcing the law nationwide. Thirty-three of the signers have report cards here.
Congress Gave ICE $70 Billion and No Rules on Conduct. Now ICE Is Buying Electric Shock Gloves.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that deliver painful electric shocks — ten times what Susan Collins points to as the de-escalation reform that justified her vote. Here are the 201 Republicans with report cards on this site who voted for the money.
45 Republicans We Cover Broke the Law That's Supposed to Stop Insider Trading in Congress
The STOCK Act asks members of Congress to do one thing: tell us what they bought and sold, within 45 days. Forty-five of the Republicans on this site couldn't manage it — some by years. The penalty is $200, and it's often waived.
A State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
ICE Is Reading Your Posts. Congress Paid for It.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
14 Republican Senators Just Voted to Let Your Child Care Bill Go Up
Trump's HHS scrapped the rule capping child care copays at 7% of a family's income. On July 30 the Senate had a chance to undo it. These 14 Republicans we track voted no.
The Senate Has Now Voted 13 Times on Ending the Iran War. These 13 Republicans Voted No Every Time It Mattered.
On July 30 the Senate came one vote short of forcing a debate on Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 13 Republican senators we track voted no — a week after the House told the president to get out.
Roger Marshall Wants to Force a Vote on the SAVE America Act. He Told Kansans About Half of It.
Marshall went on Fox to demand a Senate floor vote on the SAVE America Act and called it a fight over 'voter ID.' That's the half that sounds simple. The other half makes Americans bring citizenship papers in person just to register — papers more than 21 million voting-age citizens can't readily produce. Kansas tried that rule once.
Dr. Roger Marshall Spread COVID Misinformation. Five Years Later, He Was Still Saying It.
Facebook took down Roger Marshall's post for misstating CDC data on how deadly COVID-19 was. He also took hydroxychloroquine and urged Kansans over 65 to ask their doctors about it, against a federal warning.
Roger Marshall Hid His Family's Pandemic Stock Trades for 17 Months. Now He Wants Credit for Banning Them.
Roger Marshall broke the STOCK Act by disclosing a dependent child's pandemic-era trades in Microsoft, Disney, Chevron, Gilead and Roku more than 17 months late. In 2026 he cosponsored a bill to ban exactly that.
Roger Marshall Was Convicted of Reckless Driving. On Christmas Eve, It Vanished.
A neighbor called 911 saying Roger Marshall almost ran him over with a pickup. Marshall pleaded no contest — then a prosecutor whose father was Marshall's business partner and across-the-street neighbor got the conviction swapped for a traffic ticket.
Roger Marshall Once Bragged About Holding 105 Town Halls. He Hasn't Held an Open One in Over 500 Days.
Nearly 3,850 Kansans from 100 of the state's 105 counties signed a petition asking Sen. Roger Marshall to hold a public town hall. His office called the bomb squad on the boxes.
52 Republican Senators Just Voted to Hand ICE Nearly $70 Billion
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
12 Republican Senators We Track Just Voted to Keep Us in Trump's Iran War
One day after the Senate told Trump to get U.S. forces out of the Iran war, these Republicans helped block a second resolution — handing Trump a win and ducking Congress's duty to decide on war.
197 Republicans Voted to Spike Your Health Insurance Premiums
The Senate blocked the fix and the House passed a fake one. Here's every Republican we track who voted to let ACA premiums spike.