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| 📷 Assistant Senate Minority Leader Lisa Keim, R-Dixfield, is pictured in the Maine Senate chamber at the State House in Augusta on June 30, 2021. (BDN photo by Troy R. Bennett) |
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🦠 Republicans take aim at COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Monday.
◉ Mandates, especially the one enacted in 2021 for health care workers, have been among the most politically contentious pieces of Mills' pandemic policies. Republican lawmakers have put forward several bills to end them again this year, even though Democrats are likely to turn them back.
◉ Lawmakers on the education committee will hear several of them on Monday, including one from No. 2 Senate Republican Lisa Keim of Dixfield, who wants to. prohibit COVID-19 vaccines or others under federal emergency use authorization from being mandated in schools. Watch it.
◉ Mills stopped short of saying she wanted to mandate the vaccine in schools during the 2022 campaign, but she did not rule it out.
🤒 The governor will miss a big visit after her second bout with COVID-19.
◉ Mills announced Sunday she tested positive and will miss the Wednesday visit by first lady Jill Biden to Southern Maine Community College in South Portland. The governor is "fine" aside from a scratchy throat, she said.,
◉ It came about a year after Mills' first COVID-19 diagnosis. She was out and about this weekend, appearing at the State of Maine Sportsman's Show in Augusta on Saturday. |
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