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A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for next week for the central utilities plant at a new, national biodefense lab in Manhattan.

After five years of trying, President Barack Obama has placed his first nominee on a key appeals court in Washington.

Independent community pharmacists are not just a source of prescription drugs and medication counseling, as important as those are.

Tea Party activists from around the country are eager to see Sarah Palin run for the Senate, but Republican senators themselves aren't rushing to recruit her.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced this week he is accepting applications for congressional internships in his Washington, D.C., and Kansas offices for fall 2013.

U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts , as well as Representatives Mike Pompeo and Lynn Jenkins , issued the following statements today upon learning that the U.S. Air Force selected McConnell Air Force Base as the Main Operating Base #1 for replacing KC-135R tanker aircraft with KC-46A's beginning in 2016.

The U.S. Senate last week approved a bill that would provide $15.73 million in matching federal funds to help the city of Topeka correct deficiencies with its Kansas River levee system.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., is accepting applications for congressional internships in his Washington and Kansas offices for fall 2013.

As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining.

Good for Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., for helping break the long political stalemate over the four vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by announcing his support Wednesday for President Obama's nomination of Sri Srinivasan , who grew up in Lawrence and currently is principal deputy solicitor general.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced he is accepting applications for nominations to the U.S. Service Academies.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran - author of S. Con. Res. 7, the bipartisan resolution which makes clear a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that undermines constitutional freedoms of American gun owners will not be ratified by the Senate - today responded to Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman's statement that the United States will sign the ATT ... (more)

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Four members of the Kansas congressional delegation were pushing Wednesday for thorough investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's reported application of special scrutiny to tea party-flavored advocacy groups applying for nonprofit status.

The IRS's admission it targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny has drawn political condemnation but it isn't the first, second or third time the agency has been accused of playing fast and loose with the law.

Senator Jerry Moran , a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee with oversight over the U.S. Department of Treasury - of which the Internal Revenue Service is a bureau - has submitted eight pointed questions regarding the politicization of the IRS to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.

Politics have no place at the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS' abuse of power in targeting conservative organizations demands more than the outrage the president exhibited Monday or the apology the agency issued Friday.

Members of the state's congressional delegation announced today that they plan to fight to restore federal funding for air traffic control towers beyond the current fiscal year.

Senator Jerry Moran said that if the Internal Revenue Service did target conservative and tea-party groups, then "heads should roll." "This is not a Republican-Democrat issue, not a conservative-liberal issue .

May 11--The mayors of Wichita, Kansas City and Oklahoma City have thrown their weight behind returning passenger rail service to southern Kansas, signing a letter supporting the extension of train service from Oklahoma City through Wichita into Kansas City.