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====== Kansas Call to Action ======


We need your help in Kansas to move our application forward. Here's what you can do.


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|Clearly our Founding Fathers foretold a time when the federal government would grow to become tyrannical. Read James Madison’s notes from the drafting of our Constitution and you'll hear George Mason talking about a Congress that would not be responsive to the will of the People. You will hear him discuss the need for recourse short of a bloody revolution. Article V was crafted specifically for the times we find ourselves in today! \\ \\ "… **on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments**…"- Article V of the United States Constitution gives the legislatures the power.  Will Kansas join in, or will we sit on the side lines? \\ \\ HCR5010 was filed on January 29<sup>th</sup> with 41 co-sponsors.  Former Sen. Coburn attended a hearing on HCR5010 on March 10<sup>th</sup>, and it passed out of the Federal State Affairs House Committee a week later.  Since that point it has not been moved forward for a vote.  The Convention of States team was granted a caucus meeting last Thursday, but our time was short in front of the House members.  We are concerned now that there are INDIVIDUALS trying to derail a vote on this application.\\ \\ SCR1603 was filed on February 13<sup>th</sup> with 14 co-sponsors.  Former Sen. Coburn attended a hearing on SCR1603 also on March 10<sup>th</sup>.  We have still have not been successful in getting a vote in the Federal and State Committee Senate Committee to be able to get SCR1603 to the Senate floor.  Again, we fear there are just a few INDIVIDUALS that are attempting to derail our efforts.\\ \\ It is imperative that you, as a Kansan, put a call into these individuals to first ask for their support of the Convention of States legislation, and second, demand they move forward on our legislation in their respective chambers.\\ \\ |**HCR5010 – House Contacts**     |**SCR1603 – Senate Contacts** |\\ |Speaker of the House Ray Merrick|
|Sen President Susan Wagle     |\\ |<ray.merrick@house.ks.gov>       |<Susan.Wagle@senate.ks.gov>   |\\ |785-296-2302                     |785-296-2419                  |\\ |                                 |                              |\\ |Rep. Mario Goico                 |Sen. Ralph Ostmeyer           |\\ |785 296-7663                     |785-296-7399                  |\\ |<mario.goico@house.ks.gov>       |<Ralph.Ostmeyer@senate.ks.gov>||


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|Created:                 |2015-05-11 13:18 GMT        |
|Updated:                 |2025-04-05 15:13 GMT        |
|Published:               |2017-07-18 00:00 GMT        |
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 11:53 GMT        |
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