{"id":4992,"date":"2021-01-19T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:39:13","slug":"first-day-of-the-32nd-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4992","title":{"rendered":"Senate organizes on first day of the 32nd Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am happy to be representing my district as the co-chair of the finance committee alongside my colleague Sen. Click Bishop as part of the new leadership team in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4993\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021-1024x750.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021-768x563.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021-1536x1125.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Swearing-in-2021.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured from left to right: David Scott, Mollie Barnes, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Pete Ecklund, Melissa Kookesh, Sen. Bert Stedman after my swearing in on Jan. 19, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six-member Senate Majority leadership team, which balances Alaska\u2019s diverse geographic and philosophical representation, includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Senate Majority Leader Shelley Hughes;<\/li><li>Senate Majority Whip Mia Costello;<\/li><li>Senate Rules chairman Gary Stevens;<\/li><li>Senate Finance co-chairs Bert Stedman and Click Bishop; and<\/li><li>Senate President Peter Micciche.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to be representing my district as the co-chair of the finance committee alongside my colleague Sen. Click Bishop as part of the new leadership team in the Senate. Pictured from left to right: David Scott, Mollie Barnes, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, Pete Ecklund, Melissa Kookesh, Sen. Bert Stedman after my swearing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}