Sherman Smith

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1,886 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · Kansas Reflector series examines exploited process as lawmakers wrap up session · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

uh a very uh interesting email that a Republican sent to uh an advocate after she uh had been admonished during a committee for impugning motives. matched

The legislator told her she needed to learn when to shut up and asked that she bring her husband to testify in her place. matched

Yeah, you know, I think the level of sensitivity was so much higher this year than in any of the other, you know, the this is the ninth session that I've covered. matched

And uh you know, it's hard as you say to s you know, Democrats want to say what you're doing here in this anti trans bill, for instance, is going to hurt trans people. matched

Republicans don't like hearing that. matched

Um there's some challenges to this Charlie Kirk bill and the hypocrisy of it. matched

They don't like matched

hearing that they're hypocrites. matched

It's that kind of stuff that that we're talking about. matched

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Yeah, the very exciting world of uh estimating how much a bill is going to cost. matched

Um, the interesting thing about this to me is that you know, there's a three-year-old audit that uh some House members heard about. matched

Um, there's a committee where they brought in auditors to just kind of explain the the findings of this to them. matched

Uh and what they concluded was uh seven out of the ten fiscal notes that they looked at were inaccurate. matched

The reason why they were inaccurate is matched

Because the bills change after the fiscal note is created. matched

You know, this put me down a strange new world where I had to learn about the fiscal notes. matched

There's actually a state statute that says the budget staff is required to produce a fiscal note within seven days of a bill being entered. matched

They do all of this diligent work to try to find the best estimate they can for these things. matched

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