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House committee assignments once were the seat of power. Do they matter anymore? By Zak Hudak
April 15, 2021 / 4:41 PM / CBS News
House Democrats celebrated in early February when they successfully removed Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments. It was a move they thought would neutralize the freshman congresswoman who promoted conspiracy theories about mass shootings and the government when she was a candidate. I woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking about what a bunch of morons the Democrats (+11) are for giving someone like me free time, Greene tweeted the following day.
And she s probably still laughing: in her first three months in office, the congresswoman from Georgia raised $3.2 million from more than 100,000 donors, her campaign said last week.
By Jeff Angelo
Mar 15, 2021
Attorney Alan Ostergren joins Jeff as a Congressional committee makes another move toward possibly unseating Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and replacing her with her opponent, Rita Hart; Jeff updates listeners on his visit with his mom in assisted living and the status of Iowan s stimulus payments; Representative Randy Feenstra reports an attack on Iowa labor laws; Brent Willett of the Iowa Health Care Association answers listener questions about visits to long-term care facilities and nursing homes.
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SPM NEWS 3.8.21 - 4:32PM
Today is the one-year anniversary of the first positive cases of COVID-19 in the state of Iowa. Then were there three positive cases, since the start of Pandemic with more than 367,000 positive test results. There have been 5,559 deaths statewide and 214 in Woodbury County.
The Iowa Department of Public Health reports one more death due to complications of COVID-19 and almost 140 positive cases, including eight in Woodbury County.
The 14-day test positivity rate is 6.1%. That is two-percentage points higher than the statewide average. Almost two weeks ago the local rate was 4.7%.
There are almost 170 hospitalized across the state with 15 at Sioux City’s two major medical facilities. That is an increase of seven patients since Friday.