TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas Senate committee approved a congressional map Thursday that reduces the voting power of minority voters in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the Kansas City metro area.
Republican lawmakers on the Senate Redistricting committee voted to move the "Ad Astra" map, which combines the North half of Wyandotte County with Southeast Kansas and Lawrence with Western Kansas, to the Senate floor.
Lawmakers approved the plan with unusual speed, holding hearings and voting just two days after Senate President Ty Masterson proposed the map and a day after detailed data was made public.
