A deal to clear the way for Medicaid expansion next year that some Kansas lawmakers thought they had brokered in the waning hours of their just-finished legislative session appears to be unraveling.
Instead, the conservative leaders and moderate rank-and-file Republicans find themselves splitting in an intra-party fight.
Rep. Don Hineman led a last-minute insurrection by moderate House Republicans in the final days of this springs legislative session. They joined Democrats in demanding a Senate vote on Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys expansion bill and held up passage of the state budget to force that roll call.
