Representative Lynn Jenkins News

Corporate ads and logos are everywhere in taxicabs, movies, and parks, as well as on gas pumps, airplane fold-down trays, and school buses.

For everyone who hasn't succumbed to health-care-reform-debate exhaustion, here's some news about it for Kansas.

The U.S. House passed on Thursday the Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act.

One-quarter of the officers graduating this week from the Army's School for Advanced Military Studies will soon be in Afghanistan.

JOHN MILBURN 1 in 4 graduates of top Army officer school bound for Afghanistan duty FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.

Federal lawmakers representing this region generally favored President Obama's plan for Afghanistan, announced in a speech Tuesday night.

Whether he intended to or not, when Rep. Dennis Moore announced that he was retiring from Congress he shook the Kansas political landscape for the next year.

With Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, reportedly ready to give up his 3rd Congressional District after six terms, is Kansas looking at an all-red delegation in 2011? Moore, who grew up in Wichita and was Johnson Countya s district attorney for three terms, has survived aggressive GOP attempts to unseat him for the past decade in the heavily Republican ...

The only Democrat in the Kansas Congressional delegation said Monday he will not seek re-election. U.S. Rep.

The point of the letter is to oppose health care legislation. Instead, it shines a light on a different issue: The death of real debate in this country.

The bill adopted by the U.S. House to remake the nation's health care system would provide insurance coverage for an additional 190,000 Kansans without adding to overall expenditures by the state of Kansas, according to an analysis by the Kansas Health Policy Authority.

I know Republicans are benefitting these days in the popularity polls from the controversial health care reform being considered in Washington, D.C. I think that's because many voters may be unemployed and getting a job is far more important to them now than health care.

Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb .

Blogroll Archives Posted on: November 18, 2009 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton Marcy Wheeler does a brilliant job of mining the transcripts of the healthcare reform debate to show that Republican legislators were literally reading from a script written for them by lobbyists from Genentech.

'The New York Times' is reporting that Nebraska Representative Lee Terry used part of a speech that was actually ghostwritten by lobbyists.

Media Matters has the astounding story of two Republican women accusing the Democrats of being anti-woman in the healthcare plan.

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

Health care reform legislation that ran to more than 1,000 pages did little to impress Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins in the summer.

TOPEKA, Kan. _ Sen. Sam Brownback and Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins were on hand today as Manhattan welcomed the latest addition to its bio-research corridor.

House Democratic leaders are preparing to unveil as soon as Thursday a health care bill that includes a more moderate version of the public option, several Democratic leadership aides tell CNN.