UPDATED: With Yoder's release (below):
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FouYoderr-term Kansas state Rep. Kevin Yoder will run for Congress, Republicans told Prime Buzz this morning.
Expect a formal announcement later today.
The 33-year-old Overland Park Republican enters a burgeoning GOP 3rd District primary that already includes former state Sen. Nick Jordan and former [...]
Cynthia Davis says Thomas Schweich should have filed as a Democrat in the State Auditor's race.
Speaker Ron Richard and House Republicans hinted at an incentive package to keep a Ford plant in Claycomo, northeast of Kansas City.
Majority Leader Steve Tilley is expected to offer his own ethics bill [...]
I don't disagree with the thrust of this editorial in the Post-Dispatch about Republican fearmongering in the health care debate.
What campfires are to spooky ghost stories, Congressional Republicans have become to frightening, fabricated urban legends about health care reform. Death panels! Rationing! Medicare cuts!
But at the same time, I don't understand [...]
Add former state Sen. Mark Gilstrap's name to the list of Republicans considering a run for Congress next year.
Gilstrap served in the Kansas Senate for 12 years representing the western portion of Wyandotte County and the cities of Lansing and Leavenworth.
Gilstrap, who served as a Democrat only to later switch [...]
We've had some fun the last two weeks pointing out some of Sen. Pat Roberts' floor statements about proposed reductions in Medicare spending.
But let's be clear: Democrats and Republicans have been equally and outrageously hypocritical on this issue for years.
Republicans: Opposed Medicare when it started; have tried [...]
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) spoke earlier this week at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event about the obstruction tactics employed by Congressional Republicans, and their lack of interest in real proposals or governing. "Republicans have chosen slogans and symbolism over substantive proposals," Hoyer said.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Republican strategist Karl Rove celebrates a "stellar" class of GOP U.S. Senate candidates for the 2010 cycle and notes that of the two Republicans he's contributed financially to, one is Roy Blunt. "Republicans have also recruited good candidates for" [...] 
Rep. Ike Skelton
WASHINGTON — In his latest departure from the Democratic majority and liberals in his party, Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Lexington, joined congressional Republicans who voted against a wide-ranging $447 billion spending bill Thursday.
In a statement entered into the…
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Malek, left, and Black
A pair of Washington’s most consummate insiders — Fred Malek and Charlie Black, whose resumes are as long as any Republicans in D.C. — are hosting a fundraiser this evening for GOP Senate hopeful Roy Blunt.
Black is…
[...]As House Republicans gather in Jeff City today for a caucus meeting, the talk is all about Rod Jetton and the future of House Republicans.
To that end, an anonymous writer, presumably a Republican state rep, has written a letter to caucus members (and sent it to their personal e-mail accounts) [...]
Here’s what Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday about the health care reform debate:
“Chicken Little is saying the sky is going to fall. We’re going to pass health care and the sky is not going to fall.”
The occasion was a call with reporters to talk about her video-conferences [...]
Both of Missouri's U.S. Senators joined a bipartisan group designed to address the country's mounting debt.
Former Vice President CheneyBig talk from former Vice President Dick Cheney:
"I think we'll pick up a lot of seats (next year)," he told Fox New's Sean Hannity Tuesday. "Prospects for the Republicans in 2010 are very good."
More:
"Right after Obama was elected, there was [...]
State Sen. Dennis PyleUPDATE: Jenkins' response below.
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Given the spate of conservative Republicans challenging more moderate Republicans across the country, today's development in Kansas is notable.
A conservative state senator, DennisCongresswoman Lynn Jenkins Pyle, a Hiawatha Republican, said he [...]
Missouri Republican Party Communications Director Jon Prouty and Rep. Scott Diekhaus (R-Washington) have both tweeted their outrage today with comments from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said opponents of health care reform are on the wrong side of history, like opponents of women's suffrage, civil rights [...]
Speaking this morning on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Sen. Claire McCaskill called out Republican senators for their work to slow down and kill health care reform efforts. The Senate GOP has steadfastly refused to produce a real plan for reducing health care costs and expanding access, but has produced [...]
But Max Baucus proves me wrong.GOP Senators, Roy Blunt and Peter Kinder are attacking Medicare Advantage “cuts” proposed by Republicans earlier this year.
A White House spokesman says Obama is likely to endorse using about $139 billion in unallocated TARP funds for a new jobs creation program.
The Chase Park Plaza
JEFFERSON CITY — The 23 Republicans who control the 34-member Missouri Senate will gather for a retreat starting Friday morning at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis.
The powers-that-be will meet at the Central West End landmark…
[...]Senate Republicans don't have an alternative health care proposal, but they have a detailed plan to delay, distract, distort, deny and derail the Democratic proposal.
Rep. Russ Carnahan is the new Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight.
Obama delivers his plan at West Point
Local Republicans offered a mix reaction to President Obama’s announcement last night that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, who is retiring next year, was mostly positive, offering…
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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Robin Carnahan threw her support behind President Obama's Afghanistan strategy Wednesday morning."The" [...]
