Here are today’s headlines from the Kansas congressional delegation:Sen. Pat Roberts (R)!(Wall Street Journal) Media Industry Helped Drug Firms Fight Ad Restraints: When the Democratic-led Congress started debating a big Food and Drug Administration bill earlier this year, pharmaceutical companies worried that it would sharply restrict one of their most powerful sales-boosting tools — drug ads. But in the final bill, which passed the House overwhelmingly on Wednesday and the Senate last night, such marketing is largely spared. One major reason: the drug industry found powerful allies among media and advertising firms who were determined to protect one of their biggest and fastest-growing advertising categories. … The lobby solicited letters from legal scholars and groups across the political spectrum testifying that the moratorium would violate the First Amendment and would likely be struck down by courts. In the Senate, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts fought against the moratorium and won when his amendment was added to the bill. In the House, a subcommittee voted to kill the moratorium by adopting an amendment co-sponsored by Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns of New York.Rep. Dennis Moore (D) !(Government Technology) County Lobbying Effort Stalls ‘HAVA II’: H.R. 811, the so-called “Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act,” would make sweeping amendments to the Help America Vote Act. Jurisdictions in 12 states: Arkansas, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia — and statewide in five states: Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Carolina — would need to eliminate all use of electronic voting equipment that does not print out a paper record of every vote before the presidential election in 2008. … Reps. Dennis Moore (D-Kan.) and Tom Petri (R-Wis.) are rallying members of Congress around an amendment to bar the bill’s requirements from taking effect until Congress pays the full tab and certifies that new voting equipment will meet the requirements of the bill. They presented House leaders with a letter on Sept. 4 signed by 21 members of Congress — most of whom are members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition and cosponsors of H.R. 811 — citing “deep concerns” about the cost and feasibility of H.R. 811 in its current form and seeking the opportunity to offer amendments to address its “unfunded mandates and unreasonable deadlines.”