Bill Text: IA HR121 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A resolution recognizing and congratulating Andie Dominick on winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2018-05-01 - Laid over under Rule 25. H.J. 904. [HR121 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HR121-Introduced.html
House Resolution 121 - Introduced PAG LIN HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. BY ANDERSON, McCONKEY, GASKILL, MASCHER, T. TAYLOR, HUNTER, HEDDENS, BEARINGER, P. MILLER, STECKMAN, PRICHARD, RUNNING=MARQUARDT, OLDSON, H. MILLER, WESSEL=KROESCHELL, JACOBY, NIELSEN, HALL, KACENA, THEDE, BRECKENRIDGE, STAED, KEARNS, COHOON, M. SMITH, KRESSIG, HEATON, KURTH, OLSON, LENSING, ISENHART, BROWN=POWERS, and R. SMITH 1 1 A Resolution recognizing and congratulating Andie 1 2 Dominick on winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in 1 3 editorial writing. 1 4 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has been an editorial writer 1 5 for the Des Moines Register since 2001, writing 1 6 numerous editorials on health care policy in Iowa; and 1 7 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer 1 8 Prize in editorial writing for her editorials on the 1 9 implementation and effects of managed care for Medicaid 1 10 and other significant health care issues in Iowa; and 1 11 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick is one of seven Iowans 1 12 in history to win the Pulitzer Prize in editorial 1 13 writing; and 1 14 WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize Board praised Ms. 1 15 Dominick's work for "examining in a clear, indignant 1 16 voice, free of cliche or sentimentality, the damaging 1 17 consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the 1 18 state's administration of Medicaid"; and 1 19 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has long shown a passion for 1 20 writing on health care and related matters, including a 1 21 series of editorials on professional licensing in Iowa 1 22 for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014 and 2 1 a memoir on growing up with diabetes; and 2 2 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick's editorials were based on 2 3 extensive, collaborative, and factual reporting by her 2 4 and other members of the Des Moines Register's newsroom 2 5 staff; NOW THEREFORE, 2 6 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 2 7 That the House of Representatives recognizes and 2 8 congratulates Andie Dominick for her outstanding 2 9 achievement in winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in 2 10 editorial writing. LSB 6260HH (3) 87 je/rn