Bill Text: IA SR125 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-23 - Resolution filed, referred to Rules and Administration. S.J. 965. [SR125 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SR125-Introduced.html
Senate Resolution 125 - Introduced PAG LIN SENATE RESOLUTION NO. BY QUIRMBACH, MATHIS, and D. JOHNSON 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 1 23 a memoir on growing up with diabetes; and 1 24 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick's editorials were based on 1 25 extensive, collaborative, and factual reporting by her 1 26 and other members of the Des Moines Register's newsroom 1 27 staff; NOW THEREFORE, 1 28 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate 2 1 recognizes and congratulates Andie Dominick for her 2 2 outstanding achievement in winning the 2018 Pulitzer 2 3 Prize in editorial writing. LSB 6258XS (4) 87 je/rj