Sam Brownback News

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.

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.

A group of U.S. senators urged Vietnam's president on Wednesday to free a Catholic priest as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Hanoi on a U.S. religious freedom blacklist.

TOPEKA, Kan. - Sen. Sam Brownback climbed aboard the nation's first hydrogen-powered fuel cell locomotive Monday morning at BNSF Railway Company's Topeka System Maintenance Terminal, 1001 N.E. Atchison.

A son of Sen. Sam Brownback didna t expect he would be watching a coup unfold when he signed up for an educational exchange program this summer in Honduras.

With Senate confirmation practically a lock, big business plays nice with the likely next justice.

Not that it will make much of a difference to the end result, but Sam Brownback has joined with his fellow extremists Pat Roberts and James Inhofe, in opposing Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

The other day, I asked Bob Dole how he was doing. His first two words: 'I'm busy.' Funny, but that's exactly why I was calling.

The results from the annual Olathe Republican Party straw poll are in and U.S. Rep.

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.

Kansas' senators aren't worried about the U.S. House's recent removal of funding for an animal health lab in Manhattan from an appropriations bill.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you just have to sit back and behold what's smack-dab in front of you.

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

What if Congress apologized for slavery and nobody cared? The Senate on Thursday followed the House in voting to apologize for slavery and the Jim Crow segregation that followed it.

The Republican nomination contest for governor just became a foregone conclusion: Ron Thornburgh has dropped out.

A former Hutchinson resident and one-time farm writer for The News is considering a bid for the U.S. Senate.

WASHINGTON: The US Senate approved a fiercely worded resolution yesterday formally apologising for the 'fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery' of African-Americans. The unanimous voice vote came five months after Barack Obama became the first black US president, and ahead of the June 19 'Juneteenth' celebration of the ...