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Louisiana House-passed bills strike at COVID-19 restrictions

by Associated Press
| October 2, 2020 1:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As the nation processed the news that President Donald Trump has COVID-19, Republicans in the Louisiana House on Friday backed a package of measures aimed at unraveling the state's coronavirus restrictions in an ongoing dispute with Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.

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