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Trade Country

Written by SK Ashby

(Cartoonist - Chan Lowe)

In other news, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has vetoed a bill that would have increased funding for education and restored some previous cuts. Bevin "did not take this job to make people politically happy" he says. Okay.

Meanwhile, lawmakers in Kansas have voted to pass a $534 million increase in funding for education to comply with the state supreme court ruling that funding must increase.

Finally, Senator Tammy Duckworth has become the first senator to ever give birth while in office.

The Illinois Democrat announced she delivered her second daughter, Maile (MY-lee) Pearl Bowlsbey, on Monday. Her office says Duckworth is recovering well and asked for privacy. [...]

Duckworth says Maile is named after her husband's great aunt, who was an Army officer and nurse in World War II.