Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation:Rep. Nancy Boyda (D) !(FireDogLake.com commentary) Targeting Democratic Freshmen By Frightening Senior Citizens: Two local papers in Rep. Jerry McNerney’s district yesterday carried full-page ads calling on voters to contact their Congressman and urge him to “stop the cuts” on Medicare and “stand up for the quality skilled nursing care California’s seniors need.” These ads were placed by the American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. … So you might wonder exactly who these two groups are. Well, here’s how they describe themselves. According to the AHCA website, the AHCA “represents nearly 11,000 non-profit and proprietary facilities” and the AQNHC is a “coalition of 16 national skilled nursing providers.” In other words, this campaign has ostensibly been launched by two organizations that represent the owners of nursing homes. But here’s where the story goes sideways. When the CHAMP Act came to a vote, 220 Democrats and five Republicans voted in favor of it. So these two supposed industry groups have announced that they will be targeting the following members of Congress in their districts: Arizona: Rep. Harry Mitchell; California: Rep. Jerry McNerney; Connecticut: Reps. Joe Courtney, Chris Murphy; Florida: Reps. Tim Mahoney, Ron Klein; Georgia: Reps. Jim Marshall, John Barrow; Indiana: Reps. Joe Donnelly, Baron Hill; Kansas: Rep. Nancy Boyda; Minnesota: Rep. Tim Walz; New Hampshire: Reps. Paul Hodes, Carol Shea-Porter; New York: Reps. John Hall, Kirsten Gillebrand, Mike Arcuri; Ohio: Rep. Zack Space; Pennsylvania: Reps. Jason Altmire, Joe Sestak, Patrick Murphy; Wisconsin: Rep. Steven Kagen. Now, when I looked at the list of Congressional members this group was targeting, I couldn’t help but notice that they were all Democrats and mostly freshmen.Rep. Jerry Moran (R) !(LJWorld.com) Summit targets broadband access: U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., whose congressional district includes many rural areas still awaiting reliable broadband service, said that the federal government had $1 billion available today to address such needs, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But all parties involved – businesses, government and communities themselves – need to keep talking to come up with a solution that meets the needs of a changing world. “We’re making progress, in Kansas and across the country,” Moran said. “But ultimately, it’s got to be done in a way that gives the necessary speed and quality so that it doesn’t matter where you live, and you can quickly access information on the Internet. That’s the goal.”