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U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback placed his hand on a large stack of paper that rested on a table Tuesday in the Council Chambers at Olathe City Hall.

Home << Local << Rhetoric escalates in health bill debate The U.S. Senate vote over the weekend pushed health-care reform past one legislative hurdle, but rhetoric on both sides of the sweeping issue remains discordant.

Health wasnt the reason. Neither were politics and the tough votes hed cast lately.Instead, U.S. Rep.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said hea s a oequite confidenta China will move to relax controls on the value of the countrya s currency, the yuan, as its economy becomes less reliant on exports.

Sen. Mike Johanns just led, along with GOP senators Sam Brownback and Orrin Hatch , the Senate floor debate on the abortion language in Sen.

" A new candidate is emerging for next year's Kansas Governor race. Tom Wiggans, 57, will be running on the Democratic Party ticket.

Whither American Jewry? By Caroline B. Glick During a recent speaking tour in Canada, MK Nahman Shai, shocked some of his hosts when he said that his primary goal in politics today is to bring down the Netanyahu government.

US lawmakers criticized US President Barack Obama's administration Thursday for not pressuring China enough over its rigid currency as they set the stage for slapping import duties on Chinese goods.

Democrat Tom Wiggans filed paperwork with the state today to begin a campaign for Kansas Governor.

"I don't know about you, but I don't think our European friends should be rewarded with U.S. contracts for products they illegally subsidize," said Sen.

The Jerry Moran campaign is seeing red over an e-mail from Senate rival Todd Tiahrt's campaign that implies Moran is a fellow traveler of the Communist Party.

Johnson County businessman Tom Wiggans, a veteran of the pharmaceutical and bioscience development industry, stepped into the Democrat Party's political void Tuesday by announcing his intention to run for governor.

A message to the doubters of our justice system: The United States was founded on freedoms and based on the rule of law.

A bioscience entrepreneur will run as a Democrat for Kansas Governor. Tom Wiggans filed paperwork Tuesday with the Secretary of State's office establishing his campaign committee.

Jamie Leigh Jones was raped by some fellow employees of Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad in 2005.

In case you need further proof we live in a Bizarro World, where everything is backward: A Rasmussen poll conducted last week shows 52 percent of Americans oppose the health-care reform being contemplated in Washington, D.C., and only 45 percent support it.

Senators Sam Brownback and Mary Landrieu are making headlines for introducing controversial legislation that would ban the American scientific community from developing embryos that contain both human and animal material.

The wealthiest member of Kansasa congressional delegation, Sen. Sam Brownback, ranks 77th overall among congressional and executive officials in Washington, D.C., with a net worth ranging from $3.1 million to $9.2 million, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

It's autumn, the leaves are falling and up on Capitol Hill politicians are tossing around one of their favorite footballs - Jerusalem.

Heavy government stimulus spending and near-zero interest rates did little to end a "lost decade" of stagnation and mushrooming debt in Japan.