WICHITA, Kansas – State Senator Susan Wagle has announced she will not be running for a 4^th District Congressional seat.

Sen. Wagle made the announcement Tuesday afternoon.

“I value my position as a senior State Senator in a small group of 40,” Wagle said. “Kansas is facing a budget crisis unlike any crisis we have faced in recent history, and it would not be right as a leader of the conservative movement to walk away from an economic downturn, or for that matter, even divert my attention away from the needs of Kansans, when the headlines in our newspapers are about our Governor considering a tax increase.”

Wagle is serving her third term in the State Senate. She was first elected in 2000.