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The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $124.5 billion, fiscal 2010 Agriculture appropriations bill Tuesday that includes a key Obama administration request for $13 million for sustainable food systems in countries with chronic food shortages.

US Senators on Wednesday introduced a bill to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea, return it to a US terrorism blacklist, and expand US military cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

Backed by people opposed to abortion and the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry spoke in Topeka calling on U.S. Senator Sam Brownback to filibuster against Sotomayor's confirmation.

Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, will make a stop Wednesday in Topeka to urge Sen.

As both the House and Senate adjourned for the Independence Day recess last week, it looked increasing unlikely they would agree on identical wording for an apology for slavery.

The nation's first hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive has made its first trip, although it was just a short one.Officials from BNSF Railway Co.

Perhaps it is somehow symbolic that the U.S. Senate this month passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery, as Juneteeth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., also is this month.

A group of U.S. senators urged Vietnam's president on Wednesday to free a Catholic priest as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Hanoi on a U.S. religious freedom blacklist.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Sen. Sam Brownback climbed aboard the nation's first hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive Monday morning at BNSF Railway Company's Topeka System Maintenance Terminal, 1001 N.E. Atchison.

A son of Sen. Sam Brownback didna t expect he would be watching a coup unfold when he signed up for an educational exchange program this summer in Honduras.

With Senate confirmation practically a lock, big business plays nice with the likely next justice.

Not that it will make much of a difference to the end result, but Sam Brownback has joined with his fellow extremists Pat Roberts and James Inhofe, in opposing Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

The other day, I asked Bob Dole how he was doing. His first two words: 'I'm busy.' Funny, but that's exactly why I was calling.

The results from the annual Olathe Republican Party straw poll are in and U.S. Rep.

The U.S. State Department is having a hard time due to Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican hardliner on North Korea, who is stalling the confirmation of various candidates for State Department posts who are not to his liking.

Kansas' senators aren't worried about the U.S. House's recent removal of funding for an animal health lab in Manhattan from an appropriations bill.

Some members of Congress, increasingly impatient with the Obama administration's "give diplomacy a chance" stance toward Iran and North Korea, are pressing for new punitive measures against those countries.

Yesterday in a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Sam Brownback " became at least the third Republican " to announce that he will vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court: Mr.

A watchdog group says it will file a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee asking lawmakers to investigate the circumstances surrounding an affair that Sen.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and behold what's smack-dab in front of you.