Final From the Statehouse of 2010 Posted on May 22, 2010.
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
The Kansas Legislature has completed the 2010 Legislative Session. As expected, it was a difficult year filled with complicated and controversial issues. We spent many long hours and late nights on the House Floor (which sometimes blended into early mornings) in an attempt to work through these challenges.
The [...]
From The Statehouse: Week 6 Posted on February 21, 2010.
We spent most of the week on the House floor in an effort to push through bills before the halfway point of the session, referred to as the Turnaround Deadline. At this point, House bills that were adopted by the chamber will go to the Senate and Senate bills will come to the House. These [...]
From The Statehouse: Week 4 Posted on February 6, 2010.
We began to see some movement here in Topeka during the fourth week of the session. The House Appropriations Committee worked the FY 2010 rescission bill and passed it out of committee on Thursday. I am hopeful that we will see it on the floor early next week so we can get it passed and [...]
From The Statehouse: Week 3 Posted on January 31, 2010.
Kansas celebrated its 149th birthday this week. Marilyn and I attended the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas banquet Friday evening. Robert Gates was honored as Kansan of the Year. His acceptance speech was very emotional and made us proud of him and our Kansas heritage. His ending sentence was that with all he has [...]
From the Statehouse – #2 Posted on January 25, 2010.
Energy and Utilities Committee
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Governor Parkinson’s State of the State
On Monday, Governor Mark Parkinson delivered an unique State of the State address. In the few short months since he’s held the office, Governor Parkinson has proved time and time again that he does business differently from any governor we’ve had in the past. [...]
From the Statehouse – Week 1 Posted on January 18, 2010.
We are off and running in 2010. This is expected to be the most challenging session since the Great Depression. We anticipate a $400 million shortfall in the budget for 2011. Even after five rounds of crippling budget cuts, revenues are still too low to keep the state operating at current funding levels.
The next [...]