Eighty-five of the 125 representatives — one more than was necessary to override a veto — voted on Wednesday to enact the plan over Mr. Brownback’s objections. But later Wednesday, the Senate voted 24 to 16 and sustained Mr. Brownback’s veto, falling three votes short of the minimum for an override. Tax policy has long been central to Mr. Brownback’s ambitions in Kansas, which he represented in the United States Senate before his election as governor in 2010. Mr. Brownback, who said that the proposal before the Legislature this week would hurt job creators, is not without his supporters. “When you get 85 votes — over half of them Republican votes — against you, that’s really significant.”Other Republican governors have struggled this year with intraparty clashes over taxation.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2017 23:12 UTC