Aaron Schock as the guest speaker. The annual luncheon is scheduled for June 13 at the Lincoln American Legion Hall. All proceeds will benefit the Lincoln and Logan County Development Partnership. Tables are going for $500 each, seating eight people.
PEORIA - Congressman Aaron Schock (IL-18) has been on a mission to sound the alarm throughout Illinois and in Washington about the mounting budget pressures facing Illinois taxpayers on the dual threat of expanding Medicaid costs and the implementation of...
Two nonprofit groups have asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) violated campaign finance law by soliciting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to make a large contribution to a super PAC.
The U.S. Senate could help Illinois realize $1.3 billion in Medicaid savings that state officials thought they would be able to capture under a bipartisan reform bill passed in 2010, U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock said Thursday.
Appearances matter.
Rep. Aaron Schock seems to understand this better than most members of Congress. After all, his chiseled physique and fashion sense has landed him, shirtless, on the cover of Men’s Health and in a photo spread in GQ in which he sported designer suits.
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Appearances matter.
Rep. Aaron Schock
seems to understand this better than most members of Congress. After all, his chiseled physique and fashion sense has landed him, shirtless, on the cover of Men’s Health and in a photo spread in GQ in which he sported designer suits.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Aaron Schock, joined by his staff wore pink socks on the steps of the capitol building ... Honorary Race Chair Congressman Aaron Schock said he is challenging all men in the workplace to the 'Pink Sock Challenge.'
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock and his D.C. office staff pose in their pink socks and other clothing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The office staff are taking part in a challenge to support the annual Race for the...
Mr. Schock's $25,000 request to Mr. Cantor was first reported by Roll Call, a Capitol Hill publication ... to solicit large contributions to super PACs,” said Donald Simon, counsel to Democracy 21, in a statement from another Washington ...
Aaron Schock wanted to make a documentary about Mexico that wasn’t about immigration, for a change. While scouting for subjects in the rural communities off the beaten path, he happened upon a traveling circus. The intimate, pastoral, and ...
From Congressman Aaron Schock - Washington, DC – Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), a member of the Ways and Means committee, the chief tax writing committee in the House, issued the following statement today on the need for comprehensive tax reform...
Rep. Aaron Schock III, the toothsome hunk of lawmaking Republican mansteak who represents Illinois's 18th Congressional District, has come under fire for using campaign funds to purchase "P90X" home fitness DVD's. From The Hill: Schock, 30, purchased the P90X "Extreme...
Aaron Schock violated federal campaign rules when he solicited a $25,000 donation from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to be used in a bitter Republican-on-Republican primary. The complaint by the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 asserts ...
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), the "hottie" Congressman, is at the top of a list of federal politicians who used campaign donations to reimburse himself for lavish vacations around the world.Perhaps most notably, Schock reimbursed himself for the cost of a personal training program, an item he specifically opposed for inclusion in the Affordable Care Act. Full story here!
Schock, according to the complaints, convinced House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to donate $25,000 to a SuperPAC that weighed in on the bitter contest between Republicans Don Manzullo and Adam Kinzinger in Illinois' 10th District, reports Politico.
Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) for use only in the Kinzinger-Manzullo race. "On Thursday, March 15, 2012, Leader Cantor was asked by Congressman Schock to contribute to an organization that was supporting Adam Kinzinger in the Illinois election of March 20.
Rep. Aaron Schock's office today said it remains confident the lawmaker did not violate federal campaign finance laws when he solicited a $25,000 donation for a super PAC from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
Several weeks back, the group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington released an analysis of how lawmakers spent money from their campaign accounts and highlighted some patterns and individual expenses that raised some eyebrows.
One of the lawmakers they focused on was Rep. Aaron Schock. Their early report detailed some errors - later fixed...
PEORIA - The sprawling growth of federal bureaucracy is a pretty common complaint. But Republican U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock is going to try to explain how exactly it affects the bottom line of local residents and businesses. The Peoria Republican...
A Washington watchdog group alleges that U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's campaign committee reimbursed him more than $300 for DVDs of the P90X training regimen, classifying them as a "health care" expense.
Rep. Aaron Schock III, the toothsome hunk of lawmaking Republican mansteak who represents Illinois's 18th Congressional District, has come under fire for using campaign funds to purchase "P90X" home fitness DVD's. From The Hill: Schock, 30, purchased the ...
Republican Congressman Aaron Schock reportedly used campaign funds to buy P90X workout DVDs, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Which is funny, given that he's opposed to Obama's healthcare laws, because he doesn't think the state should be paying for our health care. More »Post from: Blisstree
Standing in front of a conference table stacked with piles of paper adding up to 13 feet in height to represent regulations put into effect this year, U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock said Tuesday that federal rule-making has gotten out of control.
The report claims Schock's campaign fund reimbursed him over $150,000 during the 2008 and 2010 campaign cycles for expenses ranging from a resort stay in Greece to $300 for a P90X workout video program. Judging from Schock's core, we'd say he ...
Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report Friday claiming that a Republican Illinois congressman misused campaign funds for lavish hotels, cash reimbursements for his ...
Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, who is campaigning for Mitt Romney in his state, charged Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s “Chicago machine” includes many of the “same folks” that got disgraced ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich elected to his ...
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock used campaign funds to pay $1,100 billWASHINGTON — Rep. Aaron Schock of Peoria billed his campaign for a $1,136 stay at a luxury hotel in Greece in 2009, but repaid the money after a watchdog group reported it, an aide said Thursday.
SPRINGFIELD - Over 700 Illinois teens from the 18th CD will gather in Springfield Monday and Congressman Aaron Schock, the youngest member of the U.S. House, will be hosting what has become an annual leadership summit. Astronaut and Pekin native...
Most surprising was a $319 "healthcare" expense paid on the "hottie" congressman's behalf to P90X, a fitness training company, according to CREW's report. Schock's critics have noted that this inclusion of healthcare expenses in his campaign ...
Despite attempts by President Barack Obama - who sees it as politically "to his advantage, for whatever reason, to say it's a do-nothing Congress" - to focus on gridlock, second-term Republican lawmaker Aaron Schock told the Journal Star's editorial board during a wide-ranging meeting that there's actually a little more progress going on than it might appear...
PEORIA – U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, a Republican from Peoria, stayed at a five-star hotel in Greece and a luxury resort in Miami, then collected reimbursements for the trips from his campaign committee, according to a report from a watchdog group. A Schock spokesman acknowledged the Greece hotel reimbursement was a mistake and has been repaid.
With a front row seat to history, U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock found Tuesday's Supreme Court debate on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act fascinating, lively and at certain points laugh-out-loud funny.
One thing the discussion did not do for Schock, R-Peoria, however, was change his mind about the legislation.
WASHINGTON DC - Illinois' Congressman Aaron Schock will be one of four Congress members on hand Tuesday during the U.S. Supreme Court arguments on the challenged HHS mandate. Peoria's WJBC reports: Schock was chosen as one of four members of...
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, a Republican from Peoria, stayed at a five-star hotel in Greece and a luxury resort in Miami, then collected reimbursements for the trips from his campaign committee, according to a report from a watchdog group.
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Rep. Aaron Schock talks on his cellphone as he waits to vote on an amendment during the House Ways and Means Committee markup of fiscal 2013 budget legislation April 18.
East Peoria, Illinois — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, both of whom have been crisscrossing Illinois in recent days, opted to make their closing pitches less than ten miles apart.
Speaking at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., tonight (the alma mater of Rep. Aaron Schock, who introduced Romney), Romney took aim at Santorum’s statement earlier that day that he didn’t “care what the unemployment rate is going to be.”Keep reading this post . . .
The controversy around investor Eric O'Keefe's non-partisan, anti-incumbent congressional PAC continues to cause friction among House Republicans. And now Illinois U.S. Rep Aaron Schock (R-18) is on the burner for soliciting funds through the PAC for U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger's...
Aaron Schock, R-Peoria, got those washboard abs ... While $319 is relatively minor compared to the much-higher price tags on the other items in the CREW report, I do find it interesting — and more than a bit hypocritical — that Schock ...
Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center told the Federal Election Commission that Illinois Representative Aaron Schock's $25,000 solicitation shattered the F.E.C.'s $5,000 limit on such requests.
WASHINGTON - On April 19, 2012 Congressman Aaron Schock (IL-18) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of the Small Business Tax Cut Act, H.R. 9.
PEORIA — U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, a Republican from Peoria, stayed at a five-star hotel in Greece and a luxury resort in Miami, then collected reimbursements for the trips from his campaign committee, according to a report from a watchdog group. A Schock spokesman acknowledged the Greece hotel reimbursement was a mistake and has been repaid.
WASHINGTON- Peoria Congressman Aaron Schock announced 15 fire and ambulance first responders will be receiving a regional Assistance to Firefighters Grant.
PEORIA — U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, a Republican from Peoria, stayed at a five-star hotel in Greece and a luxury resort in Miami, then collected reimbursements for the trips from his campaign committee, according to a report from a watchdog group.
Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock, known for his relative youth and habit of posing shirtless, used campaign funds to buy exercise DVDs, finance fancy trips and reimburse his mother, according to a report from Citizens for Responsibility and ...
PEORIA, Ill. -- U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, a Republican from Peoria, stayed at a five-star hotel in Greece and a luxury resort in Miami, then collected reimbursements for the trips from his campaign committee, according to a report from a watchdog group.
U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's campaign committee reimbursed him $104,511 during the 2010 election cycle for such things as a trip to Greece and a stay at a five-star hotel and a luxury resort in Miami, according to a 347-page report on U.S. House members ...
PEORIA - In the newly drawn 18th congressional district, Steve Waterworth easily defeated Matthew Woodmancy for the democratic nomination and will face republican Aaron Schock this November.