{"id":57773,"date":"2020-01-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/capitol-live-senate-meets-following-contentious-first-day\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:04:19","slug":"capitol-live-senate-meets-following-contentious-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/capitol-live-senate-meets-following-contentious-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Live: Senate votes unanimously for Elizabeth Peratrovich coin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>After a fairly contentious night Tuesday, the Senate on Wednesday united behind the minting of a $1 dollar coin honoring Alaska Native civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich. A pro-life rally will be held on the steps of the Capitol at noon. Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, invited his fellow senators to join the rally for what he called one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post-attachment in-story\"><a href='https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20252680_web1_2020_NA-1_Unc_R.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20252680_web1_2020_NA-1_Unc_R.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"The Elizabeth Pertrovich $1 coin. (Courtesy photo | U.S. Mint)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20252680_web1_2020_NA-1_Unc_R.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20252680_web1_2020_NA-1_Unc_R-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20252680_web1_2020_NA-1_Unc_R-640x560.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 98vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"p-exclude\">The Elizabeth Pertrovich $1 coin. (Courtesy photo | U.S. Mint)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>11:26 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>The bill passes unanimously, 20-0.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>11:24 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>The Senate is voting to ask the U.S. Treasury to mint no less than 5 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/camp-70-ans-appreciates-participation-in-elizabeth-peratrovich-day-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Peratrovich<\/a> one dollar coins. It would cost the state no money, the Senate Secretary says.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>&ldquo;Specialty coinage is a way to honor our past and our heritage,&rdquo; Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, tells the body. &ldquo;(Peratovich&rsquo;s) life stands in testimony that one person, speaking from the heart, change change the future of Alaska.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/elizabeth-peratrovichs-example-still-shines-for-young-and-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elizabeth Peratrovich&rsquo;s example still shines for young and old<\/a>] <\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Almost all the senators raise their hands to be added as co-sponsors to the bill.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>11:16 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Several bills requested by Gov. Mike Dunleavy&rsquo;s office are being read out and referred to the appropriate committees. Several of the governor&rsquo;s requested bills deal with state regulations concerning work certifications and land use.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>11<\/strong><strong>:05 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<p>After a long delay Tuesday morning, several Republican senators were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/conservative-senators-stripped-of-committee-appointments-claim-retaliation-for-pfd-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> stripped of their committee <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/conservative-senators-stripped-of-committee-appointments-claim-retaliation-for-pfd-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assignments<\/a>. Those senators claimed they were being punished for voting against last year&rsquo;s budget and supporting a full Permanent Fund Dividend.<\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from the Alaska State Capitol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":57774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57773"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}