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Happy Wednesday! Bill Owens won New York's traditionally Republican 23rd Congressional District early Wednesday morning , giving Democrats one net victory among the political positions once held by Obama administration officials.

A bill that would send Kansas federal money for aviation research and fingerprint technology heads to negotiations with the House.

A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells growing on fibroblasts .

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

The conventional wisdom about 2010 can be summarized as follows; Republicans will pick up some seats in the House, maybe a few in the Senate, and Democrats will retain control.

Sen. Sam Brownback says a federal animal research program headed to Kansas will attract private businesses seeking to take advantage of that research.

House and Senate conferees on the appropriations bill funding U.S. EPA for fiscal 2010 approved an amendment yesterday to block agency efforts to require Clean Air Act permits for greenhouse gases emitted by livestock.

TREECE, Kan. - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed legislation that includes authority for the buyout of residents in the former mining town of Treece.

U.S. Senators Sam Brownback, R-KS, and Pat Roberts, R-KS, Oct. 21 applauded Senate passage of the Conference Report to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.

Another federal research lab dedicated to animal diseases is headed for Manhattan, Kan.Congress earlier this fall approved $1.5 million to move the Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory from Laramie, Wyo., to Kansas.

Seven members of the powerful House panel that handles the Pentagon's purse - and the lucrative earmarks inside - have been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, according to an internal ethics committee document obtained by The Washington Post.

" Approval for the Environmental Protection Agency to buyout Treece, Kansas is headed to the President's desk.

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson says he still isn't interested in running for the office next year.

And not for the kind of folks who represent the good guys. But I'm sure this has nothing to do with why Lieberman is trying to undercut the President and Senator Reid by threatening to join a Republican filibuster of health care reform.Joe Conason has much more:Among Hill & Knowlton's clients when Mrs.

The debate between Representative Dennis Moore and his Republican challenger Phill Kline in October 2000 had yet to begin, and I was roaming the halls of Shawnee Mission South High School looking for Kansans to interview.

Kansas officials calculate that state government spent nearly $505 million in federal economic stimulus funds through September, and those funds created or saved 6,531 jobs.

To counter mounting Democratic momentum on health reform, House Republicans are increasingly working to rally critics of reform proposals, including through a renewed focus on abortion coverage in House legislation , The Hill reports.

In the Kansas Senate race, GOP Rep. Todd Tiahrt's record over eight House terms has earned him endorsements from a constellation of conservative stars, ranging from the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins to former Education Secretary Bill Bennett to anti-abortion activist Phyllis Schlafly.

The government's economic stimulus spending has already had its biggest impact and probably won't contribute to significant growth next year, a top White House adviser said Thursday.Christina Romer, the chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said the initial jolt of the $787 billion stimulus expanded the economy in the ...

Kansas has a death penalty in theory. It does not have a death penalty in practice, although capital punishment has been back on the books in Kansas since 1994 and there currently are nine men on death row.