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    Senate panel narrowly backs Brownback for religious freedom post

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    By KMAN Staff on October 27, 2017 State News, Top Story
    Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback talks to the media during a news conference Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Topeka, a day after President Donald Trump nominated Brownback to be ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly approved the nomination of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to be U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

    On an 11-10 vote Thursday, the panel recommended that the full Senate consider President Donald Trump’s selection of Brownback for the State Department post.

    Brownback thanked the committee in a tweet “for voting on my nomination favorably.”

    LGBT rights groups decry Brownback’s nomination because of his conservative views on issues such as same-sex marriage.

    During his confirmation hearing, Brownback defended his decision as Kansas governor to scrap an executive order that barred discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. He says state lawmakers should have resolved the matter, not the governor.

    Brownback made Kansas an economic laboratory by aggressively cutting taxes. The results have included historic increases in state sales tax, local mill levies and ongoing battles with the Kansas Supreme Court over public school funding.

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