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Lynn Jenkins (born June 10, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2009. She is a member of the Republican Party. As of the 112th Congress, she is the senior member of Kansas' House delegation. She previously served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2002 to 2008, and in the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate, from 1999 to 2002.
Early life
Jenkins was born in Holton, Kansas, and is a sixth-generation Kansan. She was raised on a dairy farm in Holton, where she attended high school. Later she graduated from Kansas State University and Weber State College with an accounting major and an economics minor. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Early political career
Jenkins served for two years in the Kansas House of ...
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, right, visits with Douglas County administrator Craig Weinaug during a tour of the Bioscience and Technology Business Center. , positive
Lynn Jenkins, Mary Shaffer, pub. aff. specialist with the USDA Natural Resour. Conserv. Service, and Rep. Jerry Moran visit on a stop at the John Bradley Ranch in Douglas County. , positive
In August, I held town hall meetings across eastern Kansas. The message I received loud and clear was that Washington will only be able to accomplish the goal of getting Americans back to work if we can work together, stop insisting on poison pills intended to politically damage the other side and find areas on which we can agree.
So when the president made his most recent speech, I was pleased to learn that, at least rhetorically, Washington has finally agreed that the top priority of the federal government needs to be addressing the jobs crisis.
There are some real solutions on the table ...
With public opinion of Congress hitting historic lows, what's it like for a congresswoman to come home and face the voters?
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Topeka, on Friday got an earful from constituents in separate meetings in Lawrence and Lecompton.
And although the venues were vastly different -- one a high-tech classroom at Kansas University's pharmacy school and the other Lecompton's historic community building -- a similar theme emerged from those attending the meetings: Republicans and Democrats must compromise for the nation to move forward.
At the meeting at KU, Bruce Johanning, a ...
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., voiced support Monday in Lawrence for a GOP House budget plan that includes Medicare reform and said Democrats had failed to present an alternative.
“We’ve got the do-nothing plan, and we’ve got the House Republican plan,” said Jenkins, who spoke to the Lawrence Noon Rotary Club at Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald Drive. “I will be the first to admit it’s not perfect, but it is a plan. And at the end of the day it solves a problem.”
Jenkins, a former state treasurer from Topeka, has supported a plan crafted by Rep. ...