WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts today said legislation to honor Congresswoman Jan Meyers’ (R-KS) service to the people of Kansas’ third congressional district was approved by the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The bill now must be approved by the full Senate.

“Jan Meyers was not only the first Republican woman elected to the House from Kansas, she devoted her career to public service for our state,” Senator Roberts said. “We served together in the House of Representatives, and I am proud to call her my friend. This is a fitting tribute for a great Kansas leader.”

The bill, introduced in the House by Congressman Dennis Moore (D-KS), will designate the Post Office at 9727 Antioch Road in Overland Park as the Congresswoman Jan Meyers Post Office.

Representative Meyers served as city councilwoman in Overland Park, Kansas, from 1967 to 1972, and then in the Kansas Senate from 1972 to 1984. Beginning in 1984, she was elected six times to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District. She was the first Republican woman elected to the House from Kansas. Representative Meyer chaired the House Committee on Small Business during the 104th Congress and was the first woman to chair a standing House committee in more than forty years.

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