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Yesterday former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum appeared in Wichita to endorse the candidacy of Todd Tiahrt for the Republican party nomination for the Senate.

Health care reform still faces some high hurdles to becoming law, but its passage Saturday in the House of Representatives was a major achievement - hence the cheering by Democrats following the vote and the grousing by GOP lawmakers, including those in Kansas' delegation.

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When the votes were tallied on the health care reform bill on Saturday night, Kansas Congressional members voted on the party lines.

NAWG CEO Daren Coppock attended a roundtable discussion on crop insurance with the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Fortenberry Votes against Massive House Health Care Bill Congressman Jeff Fortenberry on Saturday voted against HR 3962, the House health care bill.

Published online 10/30/2009 10:49 PM Candidate announces Ranchers for Wasinger Congressional hopeful Rob Wasinger, a Cottonwood Falls Republican, announced his Ranchers for Wasinger leadership team.

Rep. Jerry Moran has sent a letter to major news broadcasting companies requesting that they stop referring to the H1N1 virus as "swine flu." He noted that the labeling has "magnified" the pork industry's ongoing economic woes, which is expected to grow to $1.89 billion in losses by the end of the year.

Politics can make for strange bedfellows, but sometimes they are just different.

In all but one of these changes, the already favored incumbent or incumbent party now looks like a shoo-in, as both Democratic and Republican strategists have winnowed down their target lists.

Ever since Sarah Palin threw her support behind Doug Hoffman in New York's 23rd district, Republicans around the country have been scrambling to get on the Hoffman bandwagon.

Published online 10/31/2009 11:00 PM Cost impact for farmers clouded By Amy Bickel - The Hutchinson News - abickel@hutchnews.com The dreams by proponents are many for a state reliant on agriculture.

As conservative activists scored a political scalp, mainstream Republicans wasted no time in grasping at the coat tails of Conservative Doug Hoffman.

Rep. Todd Tiahrt said Friday that he has discussed his defense-earmarking practices with the independent Office of Congressional Ethics but has "no reason whatsoever to believe that we are subject to a House ethics committee investigation." Tiahrt's acknowledgement of contact with the OCE, which has the authority to review complaints filed by ...

The brewing scandal between members of Congress including Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. and the lobbying firm PMA Group seems to have caught the attention of two Congressional ethics offices.

Congressional candidate Alan Jilka says he is shocked that a former Salina Housing Authority director is suing him in federal court for harassment claims she made two years ago.

If you think the war is getting worse with all the bombings in all the places we are fighting - Afghanistan, Iraq, everywhere - just wait until President Obama pulls out of every place.

A conservative Senator from Oklahoma is backing Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, in his run for the Senate.

The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act expands hate crimes to include attacks based on a person's gender sexual orientation or gender identity.

This Week in Congress By Jerry Moran Last Updated: October 19, 2009 Homebuyer Tax Credit Should Not Expire This week, I spoke to the House of Representatives about the importance of renewing the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit.