TOPEKA — Republicans and Democrats in the Kansas congressional delegation took a partisan approach to voting Thursday on the failed U.S. House bill that would have averted a federal government shutdown.
That package endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump was rejected 174-235 with Kansas Republican U.S. Reps. Jake LaTurner, Ron Estes and Tracey Mann supportive of the measure and Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids opposed. The legislation was denounced by most Democrats and 38 conservative Republicans who defied Trump’s directive to vote for it or expect political…
