Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly gestures to the spot on her left arm the place she obtained a COVID-19 vaccine shot as she tells reporters she had no response to it, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, on the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kelly says she may be very comfy with the distribution of vaccines throughout the state, saying federal knowledge exhibiting Kansas lagging behind all others in inoculations is the results of a lag in reporting.
Kansas Home Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., R-Olathe, speaks with reporters following a gathering of legisative leaders with Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, Friday, June 26, 2020, on the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Ryckman says a plan from Kelly to erase a price range shortfall that arose amid the coronavirus pandemic merely pushes the state’s monetary issues off a 12 months.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature is about to convene its annual session Monday with GOP leaders searching for to wrest management of coverage from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly amid their ongoing disputes over how one can deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The session’s 90 days will come amid early and largely behind-the-scenes political jockeying for the 2022 governor’s race, with Republicans already testing marketing campaign themes for his or her push to oust Kelly. Republican leaders imagine they’ve a mandate to control after voters preserved the get together’s legislative supermajorities and elected extra conservatives in final 12 months’s elections.
“The voters of Kansas, final major and basic, have been heard, and the Senate is decidedly extra conservative,” mentioned incoming Senate Majority Chief Gene Suellentrop of Wichita, including that the Home additionally had moved to the proper.
High Republicans have outlined priorities that embrace reducing earnings taxes and limiting native authorities taxing energy, each strikes that Kelly has beforehand vetoed.
In addition they need to make comparatively fast work of placing a proposed anti-abortion modification to the state structure opposed by Kelly on the poll for voters to contemplate in 2022. They’re additionally hoping for a constitutional modification to finish the governor’s energy to make state Supreme Court docket appointments with no Senate vote.
