Representative Lynn Jenkins News

Kansas' congressional Republicans responded with mixed emotions Tuesday to news of the federal government's plan to acquire and upgrade a state prison in rural Illinois that would be used to house some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

With the help of United States Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., and U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., the expansion of U.S. Highway 69 will continue in 2010.

Calling into question the conservative credentials of Rep. Lynn Jenkins , R-Kan., GOP state Sen.

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., complained of "bailout fatigue," as a debate on the pros and cons of a regulatory overhaul bill reached the House in Washington.

House Democrats defended their Wall Street regulatory overhaul on Thursday against Republican criticism that the plan would perpetuate a bailout mentality.

President Obama aimed his economic speech Tuesday at helping small businesses, but some Missourians urged wariness, saying proposed tax cuts must be viewed in the context of other administration initiatives.

Republicans in Congress came out swinging today against President Obama's new new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals , calling for completely different measures to revive the economy.

Following a mostly partisan vote on the 1,990-page takeover of the American health care system, Republicans continue to fight against President Barack Obama's plan to seize more control of the health care system and expand who is eligible to receive publicly funded care within our borders.

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.