As testy as the climate was in the House last week, the Senate had its own eyebrow raising moment when a Democratic senator questioned the ethics of a Republican colleague on the floor.
In a chamber where decorum establishes that senators direct their remarks to the senator chairing the proceeding, Democratic state Sen. Patrick Schmidt of Topeka took a rare route to criticize Republican Stephen Owens of Hesston.
Schmidt tried unsuccessfully to amend a bail bonding bill with what was described as the "OWENS Act," short for "Official Watchdog Enforcement of No Self-Dealing."
He tried amending a
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