A GOP colleague, Wichita-area Republican Carolyn McGinn, a former budget committee chair who voted “no” on overriding Kelly, was ready to vote “yes.” She said she'd done calculations showing she no longer needed to fear future budget problems. The Legislature's rules allow any final action to be reconsidered, so the Senate had a second vote Thursday. The Senate voted on overriding Kelly's veto Wednesday, and the tally was 26-14, one short of the two-thirds majority needed to prevail. Sam Brownback went sour as big, persistent budget shortfalls followed. Tax debates in Kansas have been fraught ever since a 2012-13 experiment in slashing income taxes under then-GOP Gov. “Everybody's going to be frustrated - business owners, families, households,” said Kansas House tax committee Chair Adam Smith, a Republican from far western Kansas. The state now expects to have a surplus of nearly $2.6 billion at the end of June 2024, on top of $1.6 billion socked away in a separate rainy day fund, when annual tax collections are roughly $10 billion. Legislators adjourned Friday night without overturning Kelly's veto or passing another bill. Instead, a Republican senator helped kill the GOP bill after voting for it the day before - and promptly lost his committee chairmanship. Laura Kelly's veto of a bill cutting taxes nearly $1.4 billion over the next three years. Republican leaders went into the final days of the GOP-controlled Legislature's annual session hoping to override Gov. No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging with surplus cash and the Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers both said over and over that families need relief from inflation. Though Sir Francis Drake abandoned his search for Iram, his ring would be taken there, and lost.TOPEKA, Kan.However, Nathan Drake, with a flare gun, destroyed the winch and the pillars supporting the underground infrastructure of the city, resulting in the entire city collapsing and being engulfed by the Rub' al Khali in a large sink hole. Once she and her secret organization reached Atlantis of the Sands, they used a winch to pull the brass vessel containing the Djinn from out of the waters. Katherine Marlowe wished to reach the city with the same goal in mind as the queen. Lawrence also attempted to look for the city when he was an archaeologist. Some time in 1580 or 1581, Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Francis Drake to find the city, but Drake would eventually figure out the purpose of his mission and abandon it, not wanting the queen to have the hallucinogenic power of fear the brass vessel contained Drake hid all clues of his journey to find the lost city so no one could gain this power. The people of Ubar drank the contaminated water and went mad, causing the demise of the city. ![]() When ingesting this water, the drinker would see illusions due to a hallucinogen in the water that came from the brass vessel. Because of this brass vessel, the water in the city became tainted. The Djinn rebelled and Solomon imprisoned them within a brass vessel and cast it into the depths of the city's water system. ![]() Three thousand years ago, King Solomon commanded the power of the Djinn-demons born of smokeless fire. The city was obscured by a massive sandstorm, helping its elusiveness as countless people looked for it. It was fueled by an underground spring & rested on a vast underground cavern. ![]() It had a unique underground water system, supported by pillars which kept the city's water supply clean. It was located in the Arabian Peninsula, somewhere in the desert.Ītlantis of the Sands, located in the middle of the Rub' al Khali desert, was a legendary city made of brass architecture, claimed to have been destroyed by a natural disaster or as a punishment by God. ![]() Lawrence as "a city of immeasurable wealth, destroyed by God for its arrogance, swallowed forever in the sands of the Rub' al Khali desert". Atlantis of the Sands, also known as Iram, Ubar, Wabar, the City of Brass, or Iram of the Pillars (Arabic: إرَم ذات العماد), is a reference to a lost city, a country or an area mentioned in the Quran.
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