Kansas Second Congressional District U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda’s staff called a claim “malarkey” in a Harris News Service story this morning after Republican Jim Ryun’s campaign said this week she voted “for the largest tax increase in history.”The criticism comes after a March vote on a non-binding budget resolution to map out budgets for future years and end tax cuts put in place earlier this decade. Democrats have also said they want to change the law to extend the tax cuts beyond 2010.Thomas Seay, a Boyda spokesman, told Harris News Service that Boyda supported not letting the middle-class tax cuts expire.Ken Spain, a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman, issued a statement this morning saying that at least three Democratic House members voted against the budget resolution and called it a tax increase, especially on the middle class.”Just like another Democrat politician, Nancy Boyda appears to be flip-flopping on her positions in the interest of political expediency,” Spain said.In other news on the state’s Second Congressional District race: Ryun’s new ad focuses on the military.Last week, on KTKA 49 ABC News, Boyda also blamed past Republican governors of Florida and California for not expanding off-shore oil drilling. And in some breaking news, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.) and others have told FOX News that Defense Secretary Robert Gates will reopen the bidding process for the $35 billion contract for refueling air tankers, which went to French-based Northrup Grumman Corp. ahead of Boeing in a controversial move earlier this year.