“We need to make sure that people understand that this is not a joke, it’s not a trick, it’s not a stunt. It’s a serious crime and you will go to jail if you do it,” explained Carmichael.

“We want to make sure this is a serious felony and will result in someone going to jail,” said Carmichael.

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“Whether it’s at our universities, or whether it’s anywhere else in public on the streets or otherwise, law enforcement officers have no way to know whether someone carrying a firearm, concealed or unconcealed, is in fact someone (who’s) disqualified from carrying a firearm because of prior convictions,” Carmichael said. “At some point, we are going to have a tragedy arise because of that.”

Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, said celebration among Brownback administration officials about families skipping away from poverty was misplaced.

“What has claimed to be success actually represents denial of services to people in need,” he said.

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Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, said he will ask the Legislative Research Department to evaluate what other states have done with an eye toward drafting a Kansas bill.

“It’s worth looking into. It seems like a good idea,” he said.

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State Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, an attorney, said the decisions were consistent with American legal principles.

“It is a long-standing doctrine that the federal government has pre-empted the field of immigration; it is a federal responsibility, and the application of state laws that conflict with the federal scheme is not permissible,” Carmichael said.

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Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, voted against the bill.

“What we did today represents an unnecessary delay of safety regulations,” Carmichael said Thursday. “We can only hope and pray that no other child is killed or injured between now and the first of January.”

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His candidacy was condemned by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a national group that advocates for immigrant rights.

“Kobach is an Architect of Hate and he’s relied on hate and fear to financially profit as he advanced and defended policies aimed at severely restricting immigration in the United States. He is simply not fit to be governor of Kansas — or hold any public office,” the group said in a statement.

Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat who has been a vocal critic of Kobach, accused him of running “on a platform of hate.”

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Some lawmakers also worried the Legislature will continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kansas Department of Transportation to cover other areas of the state budget.

“We can’t keep doing it this way,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat.

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“State employees have not had a meaningful raise in a decade, and it’s time for state employees to get their raises just like anyone else,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat who voted ‘no’ on the bill. “Meanwhile, we’ve increased their contributions for their health insurance and other fringe benefits so, in essence, state employees are being paid less today than they were nine and 10 years ago.”

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Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, voiced concern about delaying the law but said he would “reluctantly” support Whitmer’s amendment. Carmichael was critical of the Department of Labor’s request to delay the new requirements and recounted a series of incidents in which children were injured on carnival rides.

The initial bill passed with nearly unanimous bipartisan support in April and was spurred by the death of Republican Rep. Scott Schwab’s son, Caleb, wo died last summer at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.

“It is perhaps unfair to subject someone to criminal penalty this quickly, but it’s also unfair to our children to delay the rest of this law for another year,” Carmichael said. “I’ll cross my fingers that from July 1 to the end of carnival season no child is injured, hurt or killed because our Department of Labor couldn’t get the regulation in place in time.”

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