Alaska state legislators have pre-filed 58 new bills ahead of the Legislature’s Jan. 18 start, and almost a quarter of them propose to limit public and private responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives' Republican minority caucus discuss a vote on Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. ahead of the Legislature’s Jan. 18 start, and almost a quarter of them propose to limit public and private responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“People went home to their districts and had town halls and coffee chats and heard from constituents. The issues with COVID mandates really did rise to the top,” said House Minority Leader Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla. Nationally and in Alaska, efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have fallen along partisan lines. In October,identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning, more than three times the proportion of Democrats.
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