Republican-Led House Passes Far-Reaching Anti-Abortion Bill
Posted: 5:58 PM The bill is expected to die in the Senate and already received a veto promise from the White House.
Posted: 5:58 PM The bill is expected to die in the Senate and already received a veto promise from the White House.
Posted: 4:42 PM The Congressional Budget Office says a sweeping immigration bill before the Senate would cut deficits by $197 billion over 10 years.
Updated: 1:24 PM A state Department of Education report shows that Kansas legislators have authorized school spending for the next two years that is more than $650 million below what is required by law.
Posted: 8:21 AM Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick has hired an attorney in the secretary of state's office as his new legislative director.
Posted: 12:22 PM Texas Gov. Rick Perry has come to Connecticut in search of gun manufacturing and other jobs while talking up the importance of competition.
Updated: 12:57 PM The release of information follows a bruising week for U.S. intelligence officials who testified on Capitol Hill.
Updated: 12:57 PM The Obama administration said Sunday it was receptive to North Korea's proposal for high-level talks, but wants "credible negotiations" that will lead to a nuclear-free North.
Posted: 1:36 PM Brownback and Republican legislators made a point of fashioning two years' worth of spending, saying it would promote stability, allow for greater planning and give legislators more time to look at spending issues every other year.
Posted: 12:03 PM Last month, the IRS was rocked by revelations that agents had targeted tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when the groups applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Posted: 11:55 AM Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is setting his sights on raising $5 million in his bid to return to Washington for another six-year term, even with no opposition on the immediate horizon.
Posted: 8:05 AM Legislators finished work on the budget on June 2, laying out how to spend $14.5 billion in each of the next two fiscal years.
Posted: 7:43 AM As Prism's name suggests, it helps the government find discrete strands of information from these large beams of data.
Posted: 3:34 PM The Judiciary Committee approved the legislation after rejecting a Democratic amendment that would have allowed for exceptions in the event of rape and incest.
Posted: 1:29 PM Now that President Barack Obama has decided to authorize lethal aid to Syrian rebels, decisions will have to be made on just what type of weapons -- and how many of them -- to send in
Posted: 1:13 PM Gov. Perry signed a bipartisan bill into law Thursday that removing any legal risks for anyone who says "Merry Christmas" in a Texas public school
Posted: 10:19 AM A Manhattan man says he wants moderates of both the Democratic and Republican parties to form a new political party in Kansas.
Posted: 7:41 AM Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is urging Gov. Sam Brownback to veto provisions in a proposed state budget for each of the next two years.
Posted: 1:25 PM Gov. Sam Brownback has scheduled two ceremonies to sign a tax bill that makes additional cuts to the Kansas income tax rate while lowering the sales tax rate.
Updated: 12:17 PM A former NASA communications official who also is an astronaut's wife will be Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's new chief spokeswoman.
Posted: 10:26 AM Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right.
Updated: 8:22 AM Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick has a new chief of staff after his top aide took a high-level job at the state Chamber of Commerce.
Posted: 10:16 AM The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Congress is considering stripping the military of its authority to prosecute sexual assault cases and shifting the responsibility to state prosecutors.
