“Dr. King discovered the fact that we were being dehumanized and discriminated against in terms of voter rights,” said Dr. Charles Steele of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
In the wake of COVID-19, Congress and the private sector are working to bring diversity to the next generation of doctors by eliminating financial challenges.
President Joe Biden, who has called the former Senate majority leader a “great American,” paid silent tribute, stopping by briefly as Reid lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
In the new year, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the administration hopes to ease food costs through federal aid and supply chain diversification.
Biden first addressed a joint session of Congress in April 2020, about 100 days into his time in the White House, which he used to promote twin infrastructure and domestic spending bills.
Several Kentucky lawmakers are expressing their views one year after the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that left them locked inside offices or inside the Capitol chambers.
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER
“For the first time in our history, a president not just lost an election, he tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol,” Biden said. “But they failed.”
The move to keep the existing definition of fully vaccinated — either two doses of the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — comes as health officials warned of waning protections from the initial doses.