Even as the U.S. House on Tuesday passed a $50.7 billion aid package for victims of the Northeast’s Hurricane Sandy, local members of Congress said future federal disaster assistance — even in their own backyards — should be stopped unless other government spending is cut to pay for the aid.
Coordination of the national observance of the centennial of the First World War would be anchored at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas …
Pending Senate vote, Liberty Memorial is now the National World War I Museum and Memorial
A significant increase in the federal estate tax is possibly just days away. And without quick congressional changes, farmers say, their heirs …
U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a first-term Republican, easily defeated Democratic challenger Teresa Hensley in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District race on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, a first-term Republican, took an early lead this evening in her race against Democrat Teresa Hensley in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District.
Over the next 90 days, Congress and President Barack Obama will try to untangle one of the toughest fiscal knots in U.S. …
Kansas, Missouri Reps among most conservative in the nation
Missouri congressman hits sequester he supported a year ago
Some local Republican delegates think women are taking home the toastmaster’s trophy from the party’s national convention.
A look at the media strategist helping U.S. Rep. Todd Akin remake his image and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been busy in states other than Kansas.
Worries about the political fallout from his remarks about abortion and rape
As the nation hurtles toward the 2012 election, compromise remains a dirty word, voices of moderation have all but been drowned out, …
Republican Jacob Turk will face incumbent U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver — for the fourth time — in this November’s 5th Congressional District …
House members from the Kansas City area on Wednesday defended their decisions to keep their tax returns private, saying required financial disclosures provide the public with enough information about their finances.
Federal debt remains a national priority, but candidates for Missouri’s 6th District congressional seat drew distinctions Friday in how they would go about addressing the problem.
Announcement Friday afternoon
A winter of good economic news for the White House may soon give way to the click, click, click of higher gasoline …
In Missouri, Barack Obama has hardly been popular and Claire McCaskill faces a tough challenge this fall to hold on to her …
House: Cleaver, Graves vote no; Hartzler, Yoder yes Senate: Blunt, Moran no; McCaskill yes
Lawmakers and politicians scrambled Monday to respond to a growing furor over the Obama administration’s decision to require no-cost contraceptive insurance coverage …
“The vision President Obama laid out to bolster manufacturing, like we did at the Ford plant in Kansas City, and invest in our workforce is a starting point that we all should be able to support. Missouri’s middle-class …
Politicians rarely like to take tough votes, but a lot of House Republicans did just that last summer when they agreed to …
After weeks of flinging spitballs at each other, members of Congress are returning home this month to give constituents their turn.
U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder crossed Independence Avenue on Monday on his way to the House floor, finally ready to vote against the take-it-or-leave-it debt ceiling bill.
WASHINGTON | The House on Friday evening finally approved a Republican plan linking an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling to the …
This is a fine mess we’ve gotten into.
Missouri’s two senators will talk with colleagues from six states today about how the Missouri River is used, with an eye toward …
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Wednesday called for a 9/11-type federal commission to study flood-control policy along the Missouri River — as muddy, rising water swirled only a few feet away.
A speech by the president, a debate by those who would challenge him in the 2012 election and a couple of published …
First impressions are important in politics.
Leadfooted Kansas drivers? They’re winners.
Liberals and conservatives aiming to close trillion-dollar federal budget gaps may soon reach a rare consensus on a common target for spending cuts: The American farmer.
WASHINGTON | U.S. Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri has taken a lead role in a potential showdown with the White House over its attempt to tighten campaign spending rules.
WASHINGTON | The Obama administration will send a top contracting official to Capitol Hill today, averting a showdown with House Republicans over a subpoena.
Two House of Representatives committee chairmen threatened Tuesday to subpoena a top White House official who’s refused to testify at their joint hearing Thursday. The hearing is about a draft…
The thing I love about redistricting fights is that they strip all the bark off the trees.
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri called the killing of Osama bin Laden Sunday “a huge win for the United States†and the culmination of years of painstaking effort.
JEFFERSON CITY | Gov. Jay Nixon rejected a proposed congressional redistricting map on Saturday and urged Missouri lawmakers to devise a new plan that better represents “all regions of the state.â€
It’s time once again in Washington to debate an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling, so let’s listen in.
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders went to bed Thursday convinced that the new boundary line drawn this week between Missouri’s 5th and 6th congressional districts ran right up the stairway of his Independence home.
JEFFERSON CITY | When it came to congressional redistricting, the Missouri lawmakers seemed to be following the philosophy of Duke Ellington.
JEFFERSON CITY | There are plenty of controversies surrounding the congressional redistricting process under way in the Missouri General Assembly, but the most relevant to the Kansas City area concerns a definition.
Members of Congress will spend millions of dollars this year to keep you posted on their votes and views with slick brochures and fliers mailed to your home.
WASHINGTON | Reaction among local members of Congress to the White House’s deficit reduction plan Wednesday was, predictably, along party lines.
JEFFERSON CITY | Synthetic cocaine masquerading as “bath salts†would be banned in Missouri by legislation approved in the state House on Thursday.
JEFFERSON CITY | The city of St. Louis would lose one of its two members of Congress and Republican Sam Graves’ district would stretch across northern Missouri from Kansas to the Mississippi River under a redistricting proposal unveiled …
Health care reform in America, one year later: More people can get insurance but some premiums are higher. Seniors can get checks for drug costs, but taxes for that “fake bake†tan are higher.
JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri House on Tuesday gave first-round approval to bills boosting state spending for the current year.
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson announced Tuesday that she will not seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2012, saying she can best serve Missouri and her district by remaining a…
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson announced Tuesday that she will not seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2012, saying she can best serve Missouri and her district by remaining as…
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri has chosen a committee chairmanship over a Senate campaign, removing himself from a potential Republican primary for the right to challenge Democratic Sen. Claire…
WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a huge bill that retains the Bush-era tax rates for all taxpayers and provides a Social Security payroll tax cut for all workers.
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, the Missouri Republican who serves as ranking member of the House Small Business Committee, will be chairman of the committee in the 112th Congress.
Republicans recommended by the party’s steering committee to head House committees when Republicans become the majority next year. The choices must still be confirmed by the full Republican…
The White House on Monday proposed a two-year pay freeze for all civilian federal employees, a move that would affect more than 26,000 workers in the Kansas City area.
WASHINGTON | If political clout was a stock, then Missouri’s took a tumble in Tuesday’s elections. In Kansas, it took a nosedive.
The Associated Press has released election results and announced several winners in area races.
Vicky Hartzler — taking advantage of central Missouri’s anger toward and distrust of government — decisively upset 34-year U.S. House veteran Ike Skelton on Tuesday. With all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed Hartzler with 113,500 votes, or just …
Vicky Hartzler — taking advantage of central Missouri’s anger toward and distrust of government — decisively upset 34-year U.S. House veteran Ike Skelton on Tuesday.
Vicky Hartzler — taking advantage of central Missouri’s deep anger and distrust of government — decisively upset 34-year House veteran Ike Skelton on Tuesday.
GOP win in 6th district
Voters should choose experienced candidates who offer a pragmatic approach
JEFFERSON CITY | Clint Hylton is gambling that anti-incumbent sentiment will outweigh a natural Republican bent and anti-Democrat fervor in Missouri’s Sixth Congressional District this November.
Ominous music rumbles, and a shadowy figure emerges.
The use of negative photos in an attempt to bury a political opponent has become a science for modern campaigns. Check out some of the worst offenders in Kansas, Missouri and nationwide.
The Republican Party’s new “Pledge to America,†already battered by liberals, is now facing criticism from an unlikely source — some conservatives, who say it doesn’t go far enough to rein in big government.
Kay Barnes served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, from 1999 to 2007. Barnes currently now works for Park University in Kansas City, where she is a professor and founder of the Uuniversity’s Center for Leadership in …
Emerging from a pack of nine Republicans, Vicky Hartzler will face off against veteran U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District race in the November general election.
The many national challenges — a still-struggling economy, too few jobs, rising health insurance costs, two wars and continued terrorism threats — have attracted a bevy of candidates for Missouri’s congressional races. The retirement of U.S. Sen. Kit …
Goal is to avert a repeat of the 2008 meltdown. A consumer protection bureau is proposed.
Congress is moving closer to a massive overhaul of the nation’s financial system that’s designed to prevent another economic meltdown while changing the way America handles its money.
