HR 121 (LSB 6260HH (3) 87)

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 121

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

A Resolution recognizing and congratulating Andie Dominick on winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.

   WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has been an editorial writer for the Des Moines Register since 2001, writing numerous editorials on health care policy in Iowa; and
   WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for her editorials on the implementation and effects of managed care for Medicaid and other significant health care issues in Iowa; and
   WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick is one of seven Iowans in history to win the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing; and
   WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize Board praised Ms. Dominick’s work for “examining in a clear, indignant voice, free of cliche or sentimentality, the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid”; and
   WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has long shown a passion for writing on health care and related matters, including a series of editorials on professional licensing in Iowa for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014 and a memoir on growing up with diabetes; and
   WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick’s editorials were based on extensive, collaborative, and factual reporting by her and other members of the Des Moines Register’s newsroom staff; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That the House of Representatives recognizes and congratulates Andie Dominick for her outstanding achievement in winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing.