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What do Tiahrt and Moran have to say about global warming? Kansas' governors and legislators over the past 15 months have done a credible job of balancing the state's expenditures against declining revenues.

A group of US senators, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer and Sen. Sam Brownback , urged Vietnam to release a Vietnamese priest who has spent 16 years in prison.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 2010 campaign season is becoming harder for some Kansas political candidates struggling to raise money during hard economic times.

A A A' 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.

Jon Kyl on all State Department nominees appears to have been lifted on Saturday, administration sources tell The Cable .

John Ensign, seen here last week, didn't have anything more to say to the press Monday.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Sometimes it's called "shaking the money tree" or "dialing for dollars." But whatever the name, it's about candidates looking for money to finance their campaigns.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and behold whats smack-dab in front of you.What was in front of me last week was Sen.

"I'm honored and pleased to accept the appointment," Senator Daschle, former majority leader of the United States Senate, said.

The money still must be approved by the full Senate. It would be an initial payment for building the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility near Kansas State University in Manhattan.

North Korea threatening to shoot a missile toward Hawaii. Iran in the midst of revolution while trying to obtain nukes.

The Hill newspaper noted that of the six members of the Kansas congressional delegation, only Sen.

U.S. House approval of a oecash-for- clunkersa legislation yesterday clears the way for Senate action that would give consumers trade-in vouchers worth as much as $4,500 to buy new vehicles.

Leavenworth used to take hard cases without flinching. A military prison opened at Fort Leavenworth in 1875.

Rep. Jerry Moran and Rep. Todd Tiahrt are statistically tied in the race to get the Republican nomination for the seat being vacated by Sen.