Kansas Speaker Mike O’Neal wants a lot more power over budget bills. And if he can manage it, he’d like to exercise it in secret.
O’Neal and his conservative cohorts are moving to adopt a rule that would prevent the House as a whole from increasing the total spending in a proposed budget once it has been endorsed by the Appropriations Committee.
Think about that for a minute. Such a rule would give the 12-member committee the power to overrule a majority of the 125-member House.
House Minority Leader Paul Davis did think about it. “This really is a…
Kansas speaker moves to close debate on budget
