Tensions are high across part lines as Kansas politicos will test loyalties and endurance in the upcoming days . . . Here's a preview . . .
(Guv) Kelly vetoed 15 bills touching on a range of social and fiscal politics — and one has already been overridden — as well as about 15 line-item vetoes in the budget. The governor has also signed 80 bills and allowed one more to become law without her signature.
Whether the Legislature overrides or sustains the vetoes will depend on absent Republican legislators showing up, if the handful of Republicans opposing some of the bills flip-flop and if Reps. Marvin Robinson, D-Kansas City, and Ford Carr, D-Wichita, side with the GOP.
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Kansas Republicans want to override governor's record 15 vetoes. Here's what must happen.
Gov. Laura Kelly has broken her own record for most vetoes in a session as the Republican supermajorities in the Legislature gear up for override attempts during this week's veto session. Kelly vetoed 15 bills touching on a range of social and fiscal politics - and one has already been overridden - as well as about 15 line-item vetoes in the budget.
Top veto overrides to watch in Kansas
TOPEKA (KSNT)- Kansas lawmakers will return to the statehouse Wednesday to take up a long list of vetoes handed down from Governor Laura Kelly. Kansas lawmakers are heading into three back-to-back days of veto session starting Wednesday, expecting to wrap up on Friday. Rounding out the top veto overrides to watch this week is Kansas [...]
'Middle of the Road' Gov. Kelly vetoes bills that protect women and children
If there was ever any doubt about Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly being "middle of the road" as she claimed in campaign ads, she put that to rest last week when she vetoed four bills designed to protect women and children. House Bill 2138 requires school districts to provide separate accommodations on overnight school trips for biological boys and biological girls.
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