Dennis Moore News

Troubled Asset Relief Program to help pay for manufacturers trying to diversify into new industries that's based on a similar state program already underway.

TWO BLUE DOGS DOWN: Rep. John Tanner makes the second member of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition in the last two weeks to announce that he'll be retiring at the end of his term, leaving the Blue Dogs to find new members of their pack.

Sen. Sherrod Brown , my friend and former House colleague, wears the same lapel pin each day a canary in a cage.

Overland Park attorney Greg Musil has decided he will not seek the Republican nomination for the 3rd District Congressional that will be vacated by Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore .

Congressman John Tanner, who represents the Tennessee Eighth Congressional District in the northwestern corner of the Volunteer state, is set to announce his retirement according to the National Journal .

Looking back, there were signs that Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore probably would not seek a seventh term: a decrease in fundraising efforts; a reduction in public appearances; no town hall meetings; and the simple fact he appeared tired.

As we inch closer to the new year, Republicans are beginning to say outloud what they've been hinting at in recent months -- that the 2010 midterm elections could result in another 1994-like tsunami.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday to provide Americans in the path of dangerous storms with life-saving warnings.

Tennessee Rep. John Tanner's decision to step down at the end of his term has Democrats worried that a trickle of retirements will turn into a flood.

I think it should have been made several months earlier. It is a full-blown counterinsurgency.

So what does no Moore mean? Imagine sitting in a beach chair on opening day at a local swimming pool.

Drip, drip, drip a It is a sign of the political times. Democrat incumbents are reading the tea leaves and it doesna t look good in 2010.

Federal prosecutors want the third trial of former Westar Energy executives David Wittig and Douglas Lake to be in the Topeka courthouse, not in Kansas City, Kan.

Reid Wilson reports : Rep. John Tanner , a leading Blue Dog Dem, will retire at the end of his current term, Dem sources tell Hotline OnCall.

Mark Gilstrap, once known as a conservative Democrat, says he is considering running for the 3rd Congressional District seat as a Republican.

News from alternative media around Kansas for November 30, 2009. Parkinson balances budget as promised, but now gearing up for tax hike Analysis of the governor's budget cuts, with a look forward: "Kansas Gov.

Is KS Rep. Dennis Moore 's decision to retire an isolated case? Or is it the first sign of a broader raft of Dem retirements in '10? -- Although his Johnson Co.-based CD voted for Pres.

News this week is not good for the carpet chewers. Democrat incumbents in handily won Obama areas are not running for re-election. The heart can be weak when the road is long and looks like a loss anyway.

The Jewish community will lose a good and true friend when Kansas 3rd District U.S. Rep.

Third District Congressman Dennis Moore , D-Lenexa, announced Monday he would not seek re-election. The announcement caught many by surprise and ignited the rumor mill of who will not only seek the Republican nomination but who the Democrats will nominate as their candidate.