Archive for Friday, April 1, 2011  Group says Speaker of Kansas
House holding resolution hostage  April 1, 2011   — A Republican
Hispanic organization says that House Speaker Mike O’Neal,
R-Hutchinson, is preventing legislative action on a resolution
sought by Hispanics in the Legislature.  Arizona-based Somos
Republicans said O’Neal is holding the resolution hostage until
the House re-considers a bill that would impose Arizona-like
anti-illegal immigration rules. O’Neal denied the charge.  That
bill has been tabled in committee, and a procedure to bring it
to the full House failed.  Earlier this week, Kansas’ four
Hispanic legislators filed a resolution similar to the Utah
Compact, which calls for the federal government — not the states
— to work on immigration and specifies that any reforms should
be humane, fair and just.  But the resolution didn’t move
through the committee process.  O’Neal said Friday that he felt
like work on measures dealing with immigration were over for the
session. “We have bigger f