Pat Roberts

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The decision means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will continue to take effect over the next several years. It will impact the way all Americans receive...

Soaring temperatures, coupled with hot, dry winds, continue to suck the life out of corn and soybean plants across much of the Midwest. Although temperatures started to drop below 100 degrees, the ongoing drought is raising new concerns about the future...

While the U.S. economy as a whole remains sluggish, the farm sector has been doing well. Exceptionally well, in fact. Last year, net farm income was a record $101 billion, and it's expected to be only slightly off the pace in 2012. With the national...

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A five-year farm and food bill that would revamp the federal safety net for farmers and eliminate direct government payments for idle crop fields took its first step toward passage Thursday in the Senate.   A 90-8 vote to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A five-year farm and food bill that would revamp the federal safety net for farmers and eliminate direct government payments for idle crop fields took its first step toward passage on June 7 in the Senate. A 90-8 vote to officially...

In mid-June, the best guessers on Capitol Hill handicapped a probable 2012 Farm Bill this way: either the Senate passes its version by the Fourth of July to push the House to act by late summer or no farm law will pass until after the November general...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday completed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that cuts farm subsidies and land conservation spending by about $2 billion a year but largely protects sugar growers and some 46 million food stamp...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The Defense Department says it supports recent legislation that allows a Kansas Army chaplain to be awarded the Medal of Honor.     Jo Ann Rooney, an undersecretary of defense, told Sen. Pat Roberts in a recent letter the...

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is calling for increased civility and bipartisanship in Congress. Dole made his comments Friday after Kansas honored him by giving him the first spot on a new "Walk of Honor" at the Statehouse in Topeka....

Danger prowled Capitol Hill shortly after the Senate Ag Committee approved its version of the 2012 Farm Bill April 26. The trouble wasn't from folks who might have lost out when the Committee “streamlined” 23 conservation programs into 13 to “save”...

WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., thinks that all crops need a farm program that provides better protection from multiyear price drops than the Senate Agriculture Committee-passed farm bill, a position with which...

Child labor groupssay they are stunned and disappointed the Obama administration is backing off a plan to keep children from working in hazardous jobs on farms.     They say more children will die in farm accidents that could have been prevented.    ...