This is another reason to hope Manhattan doesn't end up in the 1st congressional district. Even Boehner hates Huelskamp.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/04/20/2305234/kansas-senate-president-says-manhattan.html Kansas Senate president says Manhattan lab’s funding could be at risk
By Dion Lefler The Wichita Eagle
A split between Kansas’ U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is complicating efforts to redraw the state’s congressional districts to ensure the new map doesn’t threaten funding for a federal bioterrorism lab in Manhattan, the president of the state Senate said Friday.
A spokeswoman for Huelskamp said there is no split with the speaker that would threaten the funding for the lab.
Kansas Senate President Steve Morris, R-Hugoton, told a Wichita Republican club that the Legislature will have to keep Manhattan in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District, rather than including it in Huelskamp’s sprawling western-Kansas 1st District.
He said conflict between Huelskamp and Boehner could threaten efforts to get funding for the National Bio and Agro -Defense Facility, also known as NBAF. The $650million national laboratory has been planned as a center to research and counter possible biological terrorism directed against the nation’s food supply.
“Not to get into too many details, there’s a pretty good-sized conflict between the U.S. speaker of the House and our congressman from the 1st District,” Morris told the Wichita Pachyderm Club. “He’s (Huelskamp) told people that if Manhattan and Riley County stay in the 1st District (as was proposed in some early redistricting maps), funding could be a problem for NBAF. That’s out there, so we’re dealing with that.”