Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, left, answers reporters' questions about a Medicaid expansion plan as Gov. Laura Kelly, center, and other advocates watch, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
March 7, 2020
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March 7, 2020 12:44 p.m.
Kansas GOP leader's Medicaid expansion move roils Statehouse
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Jim Denning once symbolized what for Medicaid expansion supporters was wrong with the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature. Now, the Kansas Senate majority leader is an expansion champion who's under fire from some GOP lawmakers he's supposed to be leading for working with the state's Democratic governor.