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Welcome to 2023! For everyone who had breaking hundred-year records for most ballots in a Speaker election on their bingo card, you're off to a great start.

📱 ON THE INTERNET 📱

Representative Adam Zabner: I was proud to hold my hand on the prayer book of my great-grandfather Abraham Zabner. He immigrated from Ostrowiec, Poland to Venezuela. I can't imagine he would think that his great-grandson would be an Iowa state representative. [[link removed]]

Iowa Senate Democrats: "Every session opens with a fresh opportunity to make Iowa better – more welcoming, vibrant and successful. In 2023, Iowa Senate Democrats are ready to seize that opportunity." [[link removed]]

Iowa House Democrats: "Iowans are tired and exhausted by politics as usual. Let’s do things differently this year. They want us to work together to get things done. Things they’ll see in their everyday lives. Impacts that will make their lives better." [[link removed]]

📰 IN THE NEWS 📰

They're young and more diverse. How Iowa's new lawmakers may help shape the 2023 session [[link removed]]

Iowa Worker Advocates On the Laws They Hope Pass (And Don’t Pass) in 2023 [[link removed]]

School choice, property tax and tort reform: What to expect in the 2023 legislative session [[link removed]]

⏱️ TAKE A BREAK ⏱️
Congressman and working dad Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) brought his four-month-old son Hodge to witness his swearing-in ceremony last week – but Republican shenanigans meant that Hodge had to stick around all week. [[link removed]]

California Democratic Congressman Jimmy Gomez wears a fabric sling to hold his four-month-old son Hodge Gomez during votes for Speaker. [[link removed]]

🖥️ AT THE IDP OFFICE 🖥️

Like a lot of you, we spent the holidays with family and friends – but also catching up on all the television shows we missed in 2022!
Andor, Abbott Elementary, and House of the Dragon were some of our favorites. What was your favorite show of 2022?

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