From Congressman and House GOP leader John Boehner:
Fixed it is not. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) latest health care “manager’s amendment” would STILL levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans under the Democrats’ health care plan. Just like the original 2,032-page, government-run health care plan from Speaker Nancy [...]
Following is a press release from the Great American Forum.
Wichita, KS — The Great American Forum Steering Committee is pleased to announce its third public forum to be held Friday, January 15th, 2010, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Bank of America Auditorium, 1st floor, 100 N. Broadway, [...]
The Senate failed this week to approve legislation that would allow consumers to import low-cost prescription drugs from other countries. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the plan would have saved the federal government $19 billion over the coming decade, and bill sponsor Sen. Byron Dorgan, [...]
Though Congress is divided on his job performance, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time’s person of the year. The magazine explained: “His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression, and [...]
It was good to see the 2009 Redistricting Advisory Group get started last week in Topeka on the hard work involved in drawing new maps for congressional and legislative districts in response to the 2010 census. And there was encouraging news that Kansas looks likely to retain all [...]
Vicki Tiahrt, wife of Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, “continues to be something of a loose cannon on Twitter,” reported the Hill. The congressional newspaper noted that she has tweeted derisively about Republican Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, John McCain of Arizona [...]
On this Monday morning in mid-December, that's the question many conservatives are asking in wake of several months of political developments in the Sunflower State.
Jerry Moran, who is running for the US Senate and Nick Jordan, who is running for Congress, are currently both considered soft front runners for the positions they are [...]
“It is abundantly clear,” wrote New York Times economics reporter David Leonhardt, “that our medical system wastes enormous amounts of money on health care that doesn’t make people healthier. . . .Yet every time Congress comes up with an idea for cutting spending, the cry goes [...]
This week, a House subcommittee approved legislation to create a playoff system in college football. While I agree with these himbos in Congress that the Bowl Championship Series stinks -- I'm a K-State grad. See the TWO K-State BCS rules -- hasn't Congress screwed up enough things in this country?
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The government will need to borrow at least $1.8 trillion next year, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said today. That’s more than earlier estimates. Raising the nation’s debt ceiling is a regular action for Congress. But this year, some lawmakers are trying to tie the [...]
This week former Ohio Representative Bob McEwen appeared in Wichita on behalf of Kansas Senator Dick Kelsey and his campaign for the Republican nomination for the United States House of Representatives from the fourth district of Kansas.
At a breakfast meeting, McEwen said that his state — Ohio [...]
Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone sees the retirement of Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, as “an ominous sign for congressional Democrats.” He suggests that Moore might have had trouble winning re-election in 2010 with Barack Obama off the ballot and Moore’s votes for health reform and cap-and-trade [...]
Dennis Moore's recent decision not to seek a seventh term for Congress has resulted in a free-for-all in the 3rd District, with as many as 10-15 candidates either rumored or in the race already.
Since the announcement, there have already been comments from "on high" that whoever raises $250,000 by the [...]
A few big-government Republicans are attempting to hand-pick former Kansas Senator Nick Jordan as the Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District.
Nick Jordan, who was a state senator through the end of 2008 and was the 2008 Republican congressional nominee, lost his senate district to incumbent Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore. [...]
Should something happen to the president, vice president and House speaker, the succession calls for the president pro tempore of the Senate to be sworn in as president. Currently that’s 92-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who recently became the longest-serving member of Congress in the nation’s [...]
