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senator strategy to allow that individual candidate of active package that calls were seven hundred eighty million dollar tax increase property tax relief and even enhance the budget and legislators will be compelled to support the budget that the governor cantu agenda to the people that maybe in fact different anticipated i would take the approach that she has to impose taxes on services we would be only state that would impose a tax on services in the region that imposes a tax on services budget that members play however at the present time for the other states are considering attacking the governor's budget also outlined additional revenue for the region and highway but i would have been john the approval of the tax package everything out i can't let go

senate majority leader for profit education in the dating facing its most challenging need gather that he believes that governor should demonstrate leadership in creating a modern day closer to canada national education association has jumped at it following the trend of finding jobs that they think what it is that cost that she should be addressing the goals i think if we looked very hard in fact iowa campaign by restructuring health education to goddard says there are only at midday like a new funding

formula that need to be addressed before tackling the future of big mouth i'm channel two years ago the legislature created a fifty million dollar dedicated funding source for state water plan projects the money was to be spent on projects that would ensure our future clean water supply but the chairman of the house energy and natural resources committee says he can understand the conflict here that said it should not be allowed to become a trend dr joe emotionally and dedicated wetland international importance of the water plant shambhala the habitat for migration routes and waterfowl welcome people in general fund dollars with others project i'm pamela

mike kamber creation and do that any plan on veterinary services truck utility belts and machinery and landscaping only if you know if you can the argument that the low impact agriculture they got crowded information that members will take a direct hit winegardner agriculture the foundation of the state's economy and fed even in metropolitan area that the state think that a time jobs are directly or indirectly related to the agriculture industry had to figure out right now

no it is some fifteen million dollars to upgrade and maintain buildings on fire and have to have appropriations chairman george teagarden fed the canadians have one request and at the same time balance the book because of a family that didn't have the money they become more common

i'm jacki lyden mm hmm actually we i knew it had commissioned an interim committee isn't everything we talked about the problem you know i have a problem it really going to the next stage and we kind of pollution endangers one potential solution to the ultimate solution rocket that one hundred thousand cans that did not have access to help ensure ahmed chairman joint committee that it will be difficult the path

for health care in one fashion and then he may be why did acknowledge that advocate health i'm jim wagner can the part of the revenue official padlocked the power plant last week because of an allegation the owner might not be able to pay nearly one hundred thousand dollars in state liquor taxes by monday last night the power plant reopened for business previously known at that that the bargain at the character hitting the other violent incidents of the last year loren mayor shirley martin then i was shocked to hear the alcoholic beverage commission allowed the power plant to rebuild business hold on in county officials are investigating the possibility of bringing public knew the charges against the power plant because of the violence that occurred near the building last year and that started my work

for months the city and at the debate over who have the final authority to shut down the power plant the glove with her life ended up for renewal in february at the time a bp of investigating previous labor violations at the power plant operating after hours theoretically initiative and referendum allowing it to a candidate to play an active role in creating government apology through a petition to veto appropriations bills until the legislature predicted initiative and referendum legislation however the legislature must be responsible and contact me further study and forty seven page memo

allegedly to prepare job my options for initiative and referendum proponent of the idea that will increase voter turnout and into a poet and the mind to work with the government and special interest group have a good health care the president of the camp that late because he had gone she'll now governor jumped in april like pollution or factor into the debate on reproductive rights and fashion like a market rate than that the league will actively lobby for continued abortion well i think that the league financial house in order that the league did not find out a budget plan and we think the increase would likely be part of the final equated being prevented fm quote admittedly objected to

the legislators and have that everyone take a fresh look at the issues that will confront the legislature the fashion house representative harry and the condition of probation of them were convicted of heroin and local paper version that they will be required to have more plants and whether doctors have defied be injurious to health of the individual the american family believes that the content directly to violate the right and probably representative patrick agreed that then any available in fact a convicted criminal patrick has already

intriguing detail that it provided financial welfare mothers who voluntarily agreed to have enough that the right to have it in home care senator don allee of republican from troy davis not a problem with the ottawa to me in probably introduction of the measure but rather the region that refused to pay but in the course of conflicts with with the convergence which are the parliament rich and the fact that they don't collect taxes the attorney for the marketing question lampert that the idea will actually cost more money and human life of ottawa immediately at first that the whole idea to leave the merchant out of business which in turn will hurt the indian indian view on the land in the first place immigration first that they should not even be a

thick and thirty because of the federal indian reservation he likens it to think governments trying to manage the affairs at fort riley have a big house on camera wagner there is already a proposal in the senate that every corner of the field taking three year mark of the ongoing highway program didn't think general lawmakers are eyeing the program's funding as possible new revenue for other priorities like education and social services and transportation secretary or i would think that if the war in the middle east continued military average increase a highway program would likely be shelved think that that far the program have experienced a temporary delay in letting because of the volatile oil market i think that oil prices have dropped and it's the usual an

apartment everything out and tom wagner it's called weren't there it would have to have those regulations that could potentially revoke it became an aid to families with dependent children or the child and family feel to it that the number of eighteen school doubling of manhattan over the legislation thank you that when we are dealing with many for twenty people and that they kept the accountability for the dollar believe that the way to break the party by going through education for gareth one of nine educational reform measures introduced by republican senators i came away here not

really thank you the company has removed about one point seven million dollars from the governor's plan to repeal packed think that holding onto the exemption for utility production and more tangible property and get out and camera wagner director like a five year old primarily on the crime committed and inventors police record that you know that factors that has re employment the miracle that it should not

rights advocates and a love letter of completed however the collection of the people there for a month and conditions were like the racial bias laughter especially in cleveland the commission's recommendations everything out i'm emma wagner shawnee mission or high school education committee that no human cutting special education program mentally retarded or handicapped and of course they should be given priority because she defended the programs are not a luxury but rather an effect that a gifted student rodney rocky peak of the gifted students are invaluable to dictate future you have an example that

is until he had that they cannot afford the eight point eight million dollar program and he does recommend local district pick up finding a senate education committee is expected next week and emma wagner lobbyists had been waiting and wondering just when a bill restricting abortion in campaigns would be introduced can the catholic association outlined the legislation before the senate federal inspectors committee because women under age eighteen to inform a parent or guardian before obtaining an abortion and offers a different way of communication a bill that will bring parent and child together pro choice groups contend it

impossible to mandate family communication and then that legislation or without an illegal abortion and possibly get the proposal would include a judicial bypass chances with the fashion arbiter that given to members of the legislature and other job any pro life convention today house i'm cadillac know senate republicans have publicly charged that legally not qualified to head the department of commerce on the record rank and file members in both houses will express concern about any appointment emergency however remain the best person for the job it's b andy pettitte remember the senate confirmation committee have said the appointment of monaco and secretary of commerce

debate health and kim wagner says it would require medical care recycling is crucial given the shortage of landfill space guard and reserve if your car the candidates agreed with cycling is necessary so that we eliminate the legislation will be finding a market for recyclable good public interest in kids have some products that swamped the market in the camp of the thirties your county also have a problem with the legislation that the state would mandate recycling that would not provide funding academy believes recycling programs will be not supporting an account they cannot comply appealed that include enough to qualify at the statehouse it will cost or sixty thousand dollars to conduct the first audit study

due back before the end of this legislative session the investigation is an attempt in detail exactly how the margin of excellence money has been spent by the region's school senate ways and the chairman does building of shawnee says it's important to look at a considerable salary increases for some top administrators the jewish temple porsche major which are a lot more than what the margin would ever intended because of time constraints only kansas state university and wichita state will be subject to an in depth investigation by the post on a division in the other regions schools will be reviewed at a lesser level of benin says the study is important in order to determine whether the margin money has been spent where legislators intended at the statehouse i'm jim wagner and those native americans say the proposal to collect state sales tax on the indian reservation

is blatantly racist indian spokesperson steve produced that the bill is by hertz david speaking at a statehouse press conference didn't criticize the bill's offer senator johnson lee a republican from troy and is that the kansas legislature has no jurisdiction over indian reservations he says trees between the four indian tribes relocated to kansas and the federal government predate kansas state would buy thirty years senators elise as non tribal regions along highway seventy five in northeast kansas are lining their

pockets with on tax gasoline sales but the senator can feeds the decision rests with the indian tribes and the state house and came away here and particularly in china not only that the community can increase tuition increment i knew about the region in education

market one bill being considered as an attempt to remove us highway seventy five around the part won any reservation near me at a kansas will give the state control over taxes on certain reservation goods lansbury the attorney general of the coca permission for that state lawmakers are insulting native americans by not making the effort to communicate with him about the proposals i can't believe that they were going to get a bill it would have a dramatic effect on on monday and people are latino and talk to them about it and we we can't be conducting we'd imitate emily king hundred bill supporters of the two bills senators are not meant to harm native americans were intended to prevent non native americans from setting up businesses and reservations just to avoid taxes versus native american leaders are angry that their constitutional guarantees of sovereignty are being ignored we want to nominate a competition because

many people have put in there that says that the nations are no pardon of they can be honored for the work they did there is another related bill before the legislature one that would charge taxes on gasoline sold by non native americans on reservations barrett doesn't believe either the tax bills can pass a constitutional challenge but has doubts about the highway bill burr says he and several native american leaders will continue to lobby against the bills for the rest of the week for playing you know i'm not one that we're there henry ford the budget the budget without the seven hundred eighty million dollar tax package medicaid funding for mentally ill can or the senator who cheers with an ad waving the committee believe the governor a family making that argument for a proposed tax increase and he mentioned that he'd not binding

under current reports the budget or the proposed tax increase he hadn't paid his committee will develop an alternative budget a budget fifty billion dollars shy of current spending state house on camera wagner congressman john slattery says the success of so called smart weapons of the persian gulf war does not mean all high tech weapons are a bargain slattery says he favors a bandleader the two bomber and the super collider projects as well he says the money would be better used to have educational opportunities for persian gulf war veterans he's co sponsoring a bill that would significantly increase gi bill benefits at the statehouse and tim wagner the teacher education anyway state

university tax cut let says the teacher shortage experts were predicting five years ago did not materialize collette says more goods tvs are ensuring the education profession literary very talented students are coming into egyptian border is more interested in teaching that we experienced ten years ago and this notion that it's nationwide scott says enrollment in primary education and in korea state university will soon be limited due to the glut of grade school teachers in kansas statehouse and cadillac here in ninety nine he canvassed than four hundred nine billion dollars to provide healthcare for the state's neatly into years that amount of increased forty percent to five hundred fifty seven million and have now joined thirty other states across the nation looking at the possibility of universal health care they can this version is based on the canadian health care system that establishes a healthcare commission and senator dodd walker it was a wannabe says with its health care will be more accessible and more affordable

instead of paying health insurance premiums can help premiums or charge one to five percent of their incomes employers will pay an eight percent premium be under total payrolls for employers providing health insurance now that should not be a significant departure from the current health care expenditures and that may be an actual reduction in the total cost of universal health care has not been calculated that walker believes that will be comparable to that state currently pays for medical services for the needy at the state house here more women children and people of color are now infected with age related viruses and deborah taylor the acting director of the bureau ability to control that in the next five years the aids epidemic will become very real and that that education will be crucial for tampa democrat agreed that

health care workers in his district are still unsure about treating aids patients he's been the bureau for duty control estimate it will take additional funding for long term care and enhanced a policy to deal with the projected increase in camden infected with the aids virus at the statehouse i'm ken wagner and the region supports an increase in attacks on tobacco products to find the third and final year ago now before the senate committee would not only for general fund manager who opposes the idea that he strikes him another

tax increase but in a region nearly three year investigation by can make it an investigation into the larger mandate has been that probably counts how to have a banking bill which allows sick they encourage bank and can that in turn can mean by holding company in arkansas colorado iowa nebraska and oklahoma a proud

republican then they'll have an actual agenda passing in the senate interstate banking taking in the community that we have to bank it large out of state bank take a definitive expected to approve the interstate banking bill next week the governor and they've got on him right now the classification and then the changes the property tax rate for homes apartments fraternal organizations and businesses senate majority leader fred curve pratt believes it's important to get the amendment on to the floor for discussion he says the goal is to have the proposal ready for kansas voters in time for local elections in april mr langella hmm quigley chose

her believes there are currently enough votes in the senate to approve the measure the house tax committee chair representative john weidman of topeka says they are still struggling with the amendment it will take a two thirds majority in both houses for the classification amendment to win legislative approval at the statehouse and emma wagner six dollars would be deducted from each monthly paycheck earned by state employees and money would be redirected to enhance the budget of the kansas department of social and rehabilitation services representative artur available overland park police the bill will draw attention to the problems that the poorest of kansans charles dodson with the kansas association of public employees says other problems of the poor are very real one group should not be called upon to balance the sri as budget people we're going to

do dotson said there will always be budgetary problems and the legislatures should instead find a more realistic solution similar legislation introduced last session by dule hill failed at the statehouse i'm tim wagner the legislature will encourage that gender and where you'd be considered an all important to board commissioner and committee representative john weidman of topeka that women make up fifty one percent of the population under represented on the making of of an award to beat a democrat then the notion of constantly looking for women and minority he quickly the legislation and not contain penalty for

noncompliance but others that policy an outline of the girl in the legislation passed about fashion in the house at the statehouse we can reach the goal hamdan contend that money wisely acting secretary of the department of social and rehabilitation that the department can't begin negotiations until the legislature region to confront the future direction of the state welfare agency you know

you're talking about here and that lead then later in college you know you write a poem that might more time in which they can only admissions would have an educational opportunity others argued that

students who now attends college campus region configuration you make it from freshman student he would not be qualified under the proposed guidelines for targeted not just support for qualified to increase it every year until the lead there committee members agreed that it would take a three percent reduction in current ag lending to balance the budget and he clearly didn't you would think that from the committee ny democratic representative john logan to cut down two of whipping campaign committee paid for increased revenues thank you democrats on the committee have no choice but to make a tough decision now because they're not content with among lawmakers to increase tax code but he

acknowledges it hopefully will convince legislators to do whether i had to get out pensions committee have approved a bipartisan bill that would repeal that special quality and the public employees retirement system that special have given legislators the governor and other elected officials in health retirement benefit committee chairman representative don read that he received only four letters in opposition legislators about the public was not pleased with the increased pension and a pension plan reeve actor allegedly pension plan within under the table deals and he believes many lawmakers didn't understand what they were approving pension cost taxpayers an additional one hundred thousand dollars annually the bill is now headed to the full

house for debate health care senate appropriation subcommittee have approved a four percent reduction in the department of education could operating budget on education member connie hubble of topeka contradict education dollars to pretty nineteen ninety levels generally wagner looking into the propriety of the capers loan to a troubled empathy savings along almost eighteen years on the government's list of endangered three of them is on the verge of being taken over by federal regulators thought committee chairman went when airlines said today if that happens again the taxpayers are out sixty five million dollars as a result of a caper and investment

sector that million dollars is five million dollars the last two were last inappropriate we're going to find out why and that the teacher in kindergarten dollars and you know when there is a likely will have special powers not granted a normal standing legislative committee will have to be about mlb will exercise what's called a compulsory process meeting witnesses who appear before them will be sworn in on a testimony will be taken under of like math in the state appropriation subcommittee have approved a four percent reduction in the department of education could operating budget on education member connie country's education up to pre nineteen ninety levels and i am right here i

can cover a private investment counselor who can't afford a week on favorite at the nation and author of paper sixty five billion dollar investment in our financial condition committee chairman members may now put the possible life into perspective and that happened you know when you retire and a lot of them out there

a house appropriations subcommittee has now by higher increase in tuition the border regions as recommended tuition would increase eight percent of the state's research universities and out of state students would be required to pick up a twenty percent tuition increase in addition engineering these originally earmarked for equipment purchases and programming announcement well according to representative robin krom deposited into the state's general fund as i understand it the engine instance two of the three institutions about one of the ministers as recognition the associated students of cameras will oppose the additional increases but that crowd notes even with additional tuition region institutions are still below pure universities in other states at the statehouse and china wagner but then why wouldn't professor david endorsed the governor's kei kind of

in a transition team that put that proposal together still house committee members that the kind of plan that repeal can feel like the convention in fact that is becoming publically in other states thank you i don't know both content opponent to their family plan often exaggerate the negative effect that it now and you can if you pay increase that will likely be heard by gravity can the chamber of commerce and industry believe could have ignored the fact that fewer jobs will be created under this proposal and get out of there the general message for the conferees was don't tax me attack someone else to come up with revenue to roll back property taxes the governor's now familiar

plan calls for the repeal of some tax exemptions and taxes on services committee chairperson representative john weidman up topeka believes both will factor into the file tax increase equation i believe that egyptians are going to be part of a bible tax banks which probably wishes that the house will prevail we'll include some expansion of the income tax faced white men that at this point the legislature doesn't know how much money the representative bob and crumbling partly it's the committee is wasting its time he contends the truth is kansas don't want any taxes at the statehouse i'm tana wagner