Kansas Congressman Hit By Farmers' Backlash

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press: Politics
Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:16pm

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Eleven biofuel plants dot the vast expanse of western and central Kansas, where farm fields stretch to the horizon and corn and sorghum are the backbone of the rural economy....

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