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WASHINGTON U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive a COVID-19 vaccine live on television on Tuesday, as the incoming Biden administration seeks to boost confidence in the inoculation even while warning it will be months before it is generally available.
Senator Harris, who is Black and Asian-American, will become the second high-profile person from an ethnic minority background to receive the vaccine after Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Dec. 18.
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The measure passed in the House yesterday, 275-134.
Speaking on the House Floor, McClintock stated, “This money is wholly inadequate for those who have been harmed by the lockdowns and wholly unnecessary for those who have not. And this free money doesn’t come from heaven it comes from the future earnings of those who will be struggling to get back on their feet – making the post-lockdown recovery more difficult and prolonged.
McClintock was one of 44 Republicans in opposition. He added, “Let’s get this straight: the small shopkeeper who’s just lost their entire savings because of the lockdowns will get the same $2,000 grant as the government bureaucrat who’s been enjoying a steady paycheck at home for the past ten months.”
TOM BARTON
Quad-City Times
In early November 2006, Sue Dvorsky stood in a large ballroom at the hotel Vetro in Iowa City and watched late into the night in amazement as the final election returns trickled in.
Dave Loebsack, a relatively unknown political-science professor from Cornell College, had just unseated an entrenched, widely popular 30-year Republican incumbent in what by all accounts was a long-shot campaign.
The victory by the first-time candidate scored one of the biggest upsets nationally in an anti-Republican tide where Democrats took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate after 12 years of Republican control.
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DES MOINES That was quite a century we had this year, wasn’t it?
Now that we’re about to jump off the roller coaster that was 2020, let’s take one last look back. And then we promise to never discuss it again. Deal?
As with any roller coaster, the year in politics 2020 featured plenty of highs and lows. Let’s be honest, though there were probably many more lows than highs. But it’s the holidays and we all need more reasons to be happy, so let’s at least strive for some balance here.
In that spirit, let’s start on a high note and talk about voter turnout. Despite the pandemic, Iowans and Americans turned out for the elections in huge numbers.