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<p>Hart Van Denburg/CPR News</p>
<p>Oliver Ramirez, a 15-month-old, receives a shot during an appointment at Children&#039;s Hospital Colorado.</p>

We're a month into session, and Capitol newbie Andrew Kenney is starting to realize it's not all pithy quotes and snappy debates. The tension is rising, the hours are lengthening, the big bills are starting to drop. This week he and co-host Bente Birkeland run through the new hotness, bill-wise, and then dive deep with the Denver Business Journal's Ed Sealover on efforts to increase the vaccination rate and to secure paid family leave for all workers in the state. Finally, on Wait... What? we relive the time CPR's Allison Sherry almost caused a national security incident at a State of the Union address.