Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation:Rep. Nancy Boyda (D) !(The Patriot-News) Under GOP barrage, freshman Democrats get help: With possibly a dozen or so Republicans lining up to challenge him and the national Republicans running ads against him recently, U.S. Rep. Chris Carney is finally getting some friendly help. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees plans to spend about $500,000 to run television ads to help Carney and eight other Democratic freshmen. Other Democrats receiving help are Nancy Boyda of Kansas, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Brad Ellsworth of Indiana, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Steve Kagen of Wisconsin, Tim Mahoney of Florida, Heath Shuler of North Carolina and Tim Walz of Minnesota.(The Hill) Jefferson indictment sparks House ethics feud: The attempt of House Republicans to show up Democrats on the issue of corruption turned into an ethics arms race Tuesday night on the House floor. In the end, the House passed, by overwhelming margins, two measures ordering the ethics committee to investigate Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), and any member who has been arrested or indicted. … Two freshman Democrats, Reps. Nancy Boyda of Kansas and Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, called for Jefferson to resign during the debate.Rep. Jerry Moran (R) !(Hutch News) Kansas farmers testify in favor of farm subsidies: Marion County farmer Mark Meisinger admits he doesn’t like the fact that he and most Kansas farmers have to take government payments to sustain the farm. They’d rather the products they produce support their farm income, he said. “Unfortunately, in today’s farm economy, that is not consistent or reliable enough to maintain financially sound farms and ranches without federal support,” he told members of the House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management on Tuesday morning in Salina. The Kansas wheat farmer and father of three young boys was one of eight producers and a Kansas State University agriculture economist to testify about what they would like to see in the 2007 Farm Bill. However, ranking committee member Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said with 58 percent less money in the budget for the program’s commodity title than in 2002, it would be tough to meet the needs of Kansas producers. “There is simply not the dollars to do the types of things many farmers are asking for,” Moran said after the two-hour hearing at Kansas State University Salina.