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Thu Jun 8, 2017, 03:18 PM Jun 2017

Legislature overrides Brownbacks veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article154691724.html

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TOPEKA

The Republican dominated Kansas Legislature that has soured on Gov. Sam Brownback’s vision for the state voted late Tuesday to roll back the governor’s signature tax cuts.

Lawmakers voted to override Brownback’s veto of a tax plan estimated to bring the state more than $1.2 billion over a two-year span.

The Senate vote was 27 to 13, and the House followed by agreeing 88 to 31 to supersede the Republican governor’s wishes on the tax plan and force the changes into law.

Lawmakers marshaled together a coalition of moderate Republicans, conservatives and Democrats to overcome the governor’s opposition to seeing his landmark tax cuts, which have in large part come to define his tenure in Topeka, fundamentally come to an end.

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Legislature overrides Brownbacks veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2017 OP
Sanity seems to be sneaking in. Next thing you know they'll fund schools again. Vinca Jun 2017 #1
Now you're pushing it. NCTraveler Jun 2017 #2
Brownback only cares that he can say louis-t Jun 2017 #3
A new Democratic member of the Kansas House and DURHAM D Jun 2017 #4
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