Strawders meet with Representative Lynn Jenkins

Kansas Grange President Nathan Strawder, right, and his sister, Mandee Strawder, visit Representative Lynn Jenkins, during the 2013 National Grange Legislative Fly-In.

Nathan Strawder, 29, of Burlington, said the meetings, in which he discussed the 2013 Farm Bill, rural broadband, and postal reform, were successful.

Mandee Strawder, also of Burlington, said she came to Washington to remind her legislators that it is their job to speak well on behalf of rural residents of Kansas and across the United States, so that other legislators understand the needs of those in rural communities and the benefits suburban and urban residents receive from rural areas.