AZ House Passes Medical Info on IDs Bill

The Arizona House of Representatives has passed State Representative Khyl Powell's (R-14) House Bill 2772, which allows residents to put important medical information on state-issued IDs.

The bill allows Arizonans to indicate on a driver's license or nonoperating ID that they have a qualifying healthcare directive, including... READ MORE

Senator Mark Kelly: The ‘no quarter’ comment by the SecDef and this ‘just for fun’ remark by the President tells me there was never a clear strategy for this war. And at this point, three weeks in, they are just making up objectives as they stumble along all while our troops are put at risk and Americans are paying for it at the pump.

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The Snakebite is written by Grayson Bakich and Javier Manjarres