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A Democratic congressman this week used a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to criticize President Obama for failing to nominate a U.S. ambassador to a key European human rights panel.

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.

A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells growing on fibroblasts .

Happy Wednesday! Bill Owens won New York's traditionally Republican 23rd Congressional District early Wednesday morning , giving Democrats one net victory among the political positions once held by Obama administration officials.

A federal animal disease lab headed to Kansas will likely bring along companies looking to profit from that research, Sen.

The conventional wisdom about 2010 can be summarized as follows; Republicans will pick up some seats in the House, maybe a few in the Senate, and Democrats will retain control.

President Barack Obama doesnt play hardball. At least not in the LBJ mold.We know that from whats happening or not happening in Kansas.The states two Republican senators, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, regularly criticize the president on health care reform or veterans policies or his handling of Sudan.Yet theres every indication that Obama will ...

I was horrified to learn that Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts voted against an amendment that would protect the rights of people who were raped, assaulted or discriminated against by companies contracted by the government.

Seven members of the powerful House panel that handles the Pentagon's purse - and the lucrative earmarks inside - have been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, according to an internal ethics committee document obtained by The Washington Post.

Kansas Farm Bureau is promoting a drive to send a strong message to Congress opposing the proposed climate change cap-and-trade legislation.

Picking one's battles has never been trickier, especially if you're a member of the benighted Republican Party.

I second Chelsea Harris' challenge, in her Oct. 15 letter to the editor, to Sens.

Mental health professionals say porn not only affects the mind and behavior, it alters brain chemistry.

Washington D.C., Oct 21, 2009 .- Pro-life leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the danger of federally-funded abortion being a part of health care reform.

What does a hate-crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq? Nothing, except that the National Defense Authorization Act, which will soon win final passage in Congress and be sent to the president's desk, also contains the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

Who says campaigns are mere exercises in the politics of personal destruction? Take my last ad against Bob Casey in our 2006 Senate race.

Most people know Al Franken for his jokes rather than his serious nature, but on Oct.

In the Senate, Barack Obama fought for better mental-health care for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 20 Oct 2009 Lawmakers continue to try to shape health bills as they move closer to floor votes.

Gov. Mark Parkinson's choice to succeed him in office says he won't run. In a statement released Friday, Democratic Party Chairman Larry Gates says the demands of seeing his business through the down economy require his full attention.