April 22nd, 2021
By Ty Ross
Thanks to the diligence of DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a long time advocate for statehood, the introduction of HR.51, a bill that would grant DC statehood, has passed the US House of Representatives. In a narrow margin of 216-208, the legislation is on its way to the Senate.
This isn’t a new bill, but rather a re-introduction to a previous version that passed the House last year but stalled in the Senate when then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to bring it to a vote. Further proving how important the slim Democratic Congressional majority is in attempting to pass legislation that will move the country forward.
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Baker: Feds should match vaccine distribution to demand
April 22, 2021 GMT
BOSTON (AP) Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday he’s pressing federal officials to reconsider how they distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to take into consideration the relative demand for the vaccine in individual states.
The distribution of vaccine shots is currently based on population.
But there is stronger demand for the vaccine in some states than in others, Baker said, with some areas essentially telling federal officials not to send them more shots because they haven’t been able to use the vaccine they have.
“If you have folks who aren’t taking down the allocation that is being made available to them, we here in Massachusetts would love to have that because we have people who want to be vaccinated and we have an infrastructure that could probably do two times, as many as three times, the doses a day as we do now,” Baker said at an afternoon press conference.