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TexasTowelie

(116,746 posts)
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 06:25 AM Oct 2021

Tennessee lawmakers agree to another special session -- this time to fight federal COVID rules

Both the House and Senate leaders gathered two-thirds of their respective chambers’ signatures to call an extraordinary session. The reasoning? COVID-19.

Members are expected to discuss masks, vaccines and other restrictions related to the coronavirus when they convene next week.

The House was the first to have the required support. During this week’s special session on economic incentives for a Ford Motor Company plant in West Tennessee, representatives, including Republican Jason Zachary, prodded the Senate to act on COVID rules.

“Every day we wait, people are losing their jobs,” Zachary said. “Children are being masked against their parents’ wishes, and I would ask our senate colleagues to join us.”

Read more: https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-lawmakers-agree-to-another-special-session-this-time-to-fight-federal-covid-rules/

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Tennessee lawmakers agree to another special session -- this time to fight federal COVID rules (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
Their comrades just told their people to stay home for a week . . . Lovie777 Oct 2021 #1
More of their b.s. crazy. Duppers Oct 2021 #2
Everyday people are dying in this backwards ass state Docreed2003 Oct 2021 #3
+1 SheltieLover Oct 2021 #5
Just "charming" Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #4
It's like living in... IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 2021 #6
Tennesse has one of the highest rates of Covid and they want to be #1! lark Oct 2021 #7

Lovie777

(14,995 posts)
1. Their comrades just told their people to stay home for a week . . .
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 06:31 AM
Oct 2021

are they listening? Nope.

RWers don't mind killing people. Pro-Life my arse.

Duppers

(28,246 posts)
2. More of their b.s. crazy.
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 06:36 AM
Oct 2021


It was seem that Ford might like their employees better protected.


I've family in E TN and good friends in Maryville but they won't mention these things to me.

lark

(24,149 posts)
7. Tennesse has one of the highest rates of Covid and they want to be #1!
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 08:47 AM
Oct 2021

They want to win at death and disease spreading.

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