Congressional briefing

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Brownback wants to remain tough on North Korea

Posted December 12, 2007

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) has introduced a resolution setting conditions for removing North Korea from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring nations, one of the key incentives offered for Pyongyang's denuclearization. Read more...

Roberts was briefed on interrogation methods

Posted December 10, 2007

The CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of the waterboarding technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge. Read more...

Despite Huckabee's surge, Brownback content with McCain endorsement

Posted December 7, 2007

Despite Mike Huckabee's surge in the polls, a fellow social conservative, Sam Brownback says he has no regrets about throwing his support behind Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has had a rocky relationship with many in the Christian right. Read more...

Olathe businessman challenges Roberts

Posted December 6, 2007

A Democratic businessman from Olathe is the first to announce his challenge for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Pat Roberts. Read more...

Brownback talks future of farming

Posted November 6, 2007

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback visited with Sedgwick County farmers on Monday, the eve of final debate in the Senate on the 2007 Farm Bill. Read more...

Brownback: Waterboarding concerns shouldn't derail A.G. nomination

Posted October 31, 2007

"This is a man well-qualified and very talented for the era he would be put into office," Kansas' U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback said of Judge Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general. Read more...

Boyda sponsors 'Affordable Footware Act of 2007'

Posted October 25, 2007

The tax relief legislation eliminates the import tariffs, collectively known as the shoe tax, on all lower- to moderately-priced footwear as well as all children's shoes, or about 60 percent of all shoes sold in the United States. Read more...

Moore presses to expand visas for foreign workers

Posted October 24, 2007

A group of 16 Democrats in Congress, including Dennis Moore of Kansas, has requested that "the House take action this year to resolve the immediate talent crisis that is facing U.S. employers." Read more...

Roberts: Maine school shouldn't get federal funding for birth control giveaway

Posted October 19, 2007

A middle school in Portland, Maine, has decided to provide birth control pills and patches to its students, ages 11 to 13, without parental notification. It's an idea, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts said, that probably shouldn't merit federal funding. Read more...

Tiahrt: Time to reach across the aisle

Posted October 8, 2007

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., actually agreed recently on something: Politicians in both parties need to work harder on getting along, even if they maintain deep policy differences. Read more...

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