Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation:Rep. Jerry Moran (R) !(Wallaces Farmer) Could Pipelines Move Ethanol From Iowa to Major Markets?: Iowa Congressmen Leonard Boswell has introduced bipartisan legislation to increase the availability of alternative fuels at gasoline stations across the country. The legislation calls for funding a study to find out whether underground pipelines would be a good way to transport ethanol and biodiesel. … Congressman Jerry Moran, R-Kan., is the main Republican sponsor of the bill. Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced similar legislation in the Senate.Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R) !(Wichita Eagle) Coverage gaps keep weather warnings from reaching all: The National Weather Service has been urging people to make weather radios a cornerstone of their defense against severe weather for years. But county emergency management officials say there are large coverage gaps in central and south-central Kansas — including areas hammered by tornadoes recently. … Harper County was hit repeatedly by tornadoes in 2004. Twelve homes were damaged or destroyed by one outbreak, Loreg said, and as many as 14 tornadoes were on the ground at the same time. But county officials have not been able to find or finance a transmitter or a tower on which to put it. Rep. Todd Tiahrt’s efforts to find federal funding for the project have come up empty so far. “He’s trying to make something happen,” Tiahrt spokesman Chuck Knapp said. “It just hasn’t been successful yet.”(AP) Chaska police chief takes on Congress in battle over gun data: Mayors Against Illegal Guns is led by the mayors of New York and Boston, but when the group wanted a spokesman for an ad campaign to change gun laws in Congress it turned Scott Knight, chief of police in small town Chaska, Minn. “People tend to try to make this sort of a big-city issue,” said John Feinblatt, the criminal justice coordinator for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “But there’s nobody more articulate than Chief Knight, who really speaks for small town America. Most members of law enforcement are in small towns. So he sort of speaks for America.”… The television commercial for the mayor’s group shows Knight behind the wheel of a police cruiser, urging Congress to repeal the Tiahrt amendment. … Chuck Knapp, a spokesman for Tiahrt, called the ads misleading. He said that law enforcement agencies are free to contact other police departments to get the data, and that a police department can get the information from the ATF if it relates to a specific crime within that department’s jurisdiction….