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Mon Feb 27, 2017, 07:42 AM Feb 2017

Legislature calls a break

TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature is taking four more days off than usual for this standard break in the session, according to Legislative Administrative Services.

The Senate wrapped up work on the floor at noon Thursday. The House finished before 5 p.m. the same day, for the Friday start of a hiatus that will end with a return on March 6.

“I thought it was crazy,” said House Majority Leader Don Hineman, R-Dighton, of the calendar shepherded by Senate leadership.

But on the cusp of the break from Topeka on Thursday morning, Hineman admitted, “It’s looking pretty good

Read more: http://www.hdnews.net/news/local/legislature-calls-a-break/article_b15875bc-89d0-5dfe-b7a8-33ac8c512810.html

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