Sam Brownback: “I personally think this is an area that should be left in the State's constitution and away from bankruptcy law the way…”

“I personally think this is an area that should be left in the State's constitution and away from bankruptcy law the way it has been for 132 years, and I continue to believe that now. But what has come forward has been a compromise that has been worked out by a number of people who worked on the bankruptcy issue, people of good faith from different perspectives, and that compromise is in the bill. The chairman of the committee spoke about what that compromise was. To deviate from that will cause a number of us to then say that is something with which we will not be able to live. I personally will be voting against the bill if that is in it, and I will fight this bill coming back in any form from conference if it has this new language in it.”