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Iowa Republicans Move Bills To Curb Absentee Voting, Protect Businesses From Coronavirus Lawsuits

John Pemble
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IPR
The Legislature was back in session last week for the first time since mid-March. A number of bills advanced late Friday night.

 The Iowa Legislature picked things back up on Wednesday last week after leaders put the session on hold in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawmakers are not meeting publicly Monday but the House and Senate moved bills forward in the House and Senate Friday night.

 

Clay Masters
Clay Masters is the senior politics reporter for MPR News.
Katarina Sostaric is IPR's State Government Reporter, with expertise in state government and agencies, state officials and how public policy affects Iowans' lives. She's covered Iowa's annual legislative sessions, the closure of state agencies, and policy impacts on family planning services and access, among other topics, for IPR, NPR and other public media organizations. Sostaric is a graduate of the University of Missouri.