The Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment (HCR 5032) didn't get the 84 votes it needed yesterday to pass the Kansas House. It was written to block the resolutions of the federal health care act in Kansas and was sponsored by Republican Rep. Brenda Landwehr of Wichita, who thinks President Barack Obama's health-care bill will "take us down the path of socialism." (Check out the larger version of our homage to Landwehr after the jump.)
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican candidate for governor, threw his support behind the house bill, to no avail.
But HCR 5032 may still have a pulse.
According to The Kansas City Star's Prime Buzz blog:
House rules say a vote can be reconsidered if a person who voted on the prevailing side (in this case, the no votes) says they've changed their mind. Sometimes, when it's obvious a bill is going to fail, a supporter of a bill will vote with the no-votes just to reserve the opportunity to later demand another vote.This appeared to be the strategy of Rep. Virgil Peck (R-Tyro), who switched his vote to "no" at the last minute, joking, "I must have hit the wrong button." Peck can now ask that the amendment be reconsidered before the end of the legislative session.
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