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" Elected Kansas officials are reacting to the U.S. House of Representatives passing of the Health Care Bill late Saturday night.

Yesterday former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum appeared in Wichita to endorse the candidacy of Todd Tiahrt for the Republican party nomination for the Senate.

Dede Scozzafava, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in New York's reliably Republican 23rd Congressional District, was too liberal.

Health care reform still faces some high hurdles to becoming law, but its passage Saturday in the House of Representatives was a major achievement - hence the cheering by Democrats following the vote and the grousing by GOP lawmakers, including those in Kansas' delegation.

One-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made small talk with hundreds of Wichitans this morning at a book-signing in College Hill.

President Obama has pulled funding for a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada that already has cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

Congressmen Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran Press Release Rep. Todd Tiahrt "Speaker Pelosi just delivered an early Christmas gift to President Obama tonight at a cost of $1.2 trillion to taxpayers.

The disclosure that seven House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members are being scrutinized for their ties to PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm that raised money for lawmakers and won earmarks for clients, is not expected to have a chilling effect on negotiations to reach agreement on a final fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill.

The document adds the names of Norm Dicks , D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; ranking subcommittee Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida and Todd Tiahrt , R-Kan . That list is only about 520 members short.

Former Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has endorsed U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt in his bid for the U.S. Senate, Tiahrt's office announced Thursday.

State Sen. Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, revealed Tuesday that she had decided not to enter the crowded field of candidates in the 4th District congressional campaign.

GOP wins Tuesday in the governor races in New Jersey and Virginia boosted Republicans' hopes for a 2010 comeback.

WASHINGTON Last week, The Washington Post managed to surreptitiously stumble across a document revealing that several members of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt today along with Rep. Jay Inslee spearheaded a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to ensure a fair, open and transparent process in the Air Forcea s procurement of a new aerial refueling tanker.

With hundreds of new jobs at stake, Kansas officials are keeping an eye on the competition for an Air Force contract to build a new refueling plane.

Rep. Todd Tiahrt said Friday that he has discussed his defense-earmarking practices with the independent Office of Congressional Ethics but has "no reason whatsoever to believe that we are subject to a House ethics committee investigation." Tiahrt's acknowledgement of contact with the OCE, which has the authority to review complaints filed by ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers who support Boeing in its bid for a $35 billion tanker contract want President Barack Obama to force the Air Force to include a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Airbus in its decision.

Nearly half the members of the powerful House subcommittee that oversees more than $600 billion in Pentagon spending have been targeted by ethics investigators who are probing the conduct of a once-influential Washington lobbying firm, according to a confidential document that the House Ethics Committee says was inadvertently exposed.

In all but one of these changes, the already favored incumbent or incumbent party now looks like a shoo-in, as both Democratic and Republican strategists have winnowed down their target lists.

A case of cyberhacking led to the unofficial release Friday of the names of more than two dozen House members in connection with an ethics inquiry into defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling.The disclosure shows that the secret ethics probe is wider than originally believed.