Iowa Senate won't allow journalists to work in chamber, in shift from longstanding practice

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Republican leaders in the Iowa Senate will no longer allow journalists to work at press benches in the Senate chamber, ending a tradition that has lasted more than a century.

The GOP-majority Iowa Senate has control over who is allowed into the Senate chamber. Its longstanding practice has been to allow reporters, photographers and multimedia journalists to work at press benches along the front wall of the chamber, facing senators' desks.

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