Western Kansas Delegation Goes to Washington

This week, I visited with community leaders from Hays, Garden City, Dodge City, Liberal and Seward County about topics important to their local communities. We discussed a number of issues, including transportation, immigration, housing, childcare and preserving access to water.

It was great to receive an update on several projects, including the Hilmar Cheese plant in Dodge City and the airport expansion project in Garden City. We also spoke about the efforts underway to make certain communities in western Kansas have access to water resources for generations to come through conservation and aquifer recharge. I appreciate the efforts of these community leaders to make certain the places we call home are sought-out places to live and work. Thank you to the members of these local chambers of commerce for organizing this annual visit to Washington, D.C.

Meeting with Kansans

The Rural Broadband Association On Tuesday, I met with Kansas rural broadband providers representing The Rural Broadband Association. We spoke about the importance of broadband deployment programs at the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce. We also discussed the importance of continuing support at the federal level for these projects in our state. In addition, we spoke about my legislation to make certain broadband deployment grants are not considered taxable income, which would hinder efforts to deploy networks to areas of Kansas unserved by broadband. This bill will help rural broadband providers to fully utilize the broadband deployment grants they receive. I will continue to work with broadband leaders in our state to make certain all Kansans have access to high-quality broadband service.

Thank you to Terry Force of Home, Candace Wright of Home, Brad Rieger of Caldwell, Rob McDonald of Madison, Jimmy Todd of Hays, Rhonda Goddard of Hays, Catherine Moyer of Ulysses, Kasey Krueger of Ulysses, Jason Smith of Everest, Dale Jones of Council Grove, Jason Pettit of Council Grove, Benjamin Foster of Miltonvale, Todd Houseman of Dodge City, Brian Boisvert of Wilson and Craig Freeman of Wilson for meeting with me.





Source: senate.gov