House Resolution 121 - Introduced 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 1 Dominick on winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in 2 editorial writing. 3 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has been an editorial writer 4 for the Des Moines Register since 2001, writing 5 numerous editorials on health care policy in Iowa; and 6 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer 7 Prize in editorial writing for her editorials on the 8 implementation and effects of managed care for Medicaid 9 and other significant health care issues in Iowa; and 10 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick is one of seven Iowans 11 in history to win the Pulitzer Prize in editorial 12 writing; and 13 WHEREAS, the Pulitzer Prize Board praised Ms. 14 Dominick’s work for “examining in a clear, indignant 15 voice, free of cliche or sentimentality, the damaging 16 consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the 17 state’s administration of Medicaid”; and 18 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick has long shown a passion for 19 writing on health care and related matters, including a 20 series of editorials on professional licensing in Iowa 21 for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2014 and 22 -1- LSB 6260HH (3) 87 je/rn 1/ 2
H.R. 121 a memoir on growing up with diabetes; and 1 WHEREAS, Ms. Dominick’s editorials were based on 2 extensive, collaborative, and factual reporting by her 3 and other members of the Des Moines Register’s newsroom 4 staff; NOW THEREFORE, 5 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 6 That the House of Representatives recognizes and 7 congratulates Andie Dominick for her outstanding 8 achievement in winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in 9 editorial writing. 10 -2- LSB 6260HH (3) 87 je/rn 2/ 2