It's a busy funnel week at the Statehouse as lawmakers try to advance as many bills as possible before Friday. Why it matters: The deadline to advance legislation helps narrow down the thousands of bills introduced each session.

Sen. Brandon Shippy brought the bill and presented it with a slate of out-of-state physicians, many of whom have been linked to anti-COVID vaccine groups.

A bill to make it a crime to administer mRNA vaccines in Iowa — like the Moderna and Pfizer COVID shots — has cleared initial review in the Iowa Senate. However, the bill’s sponsor plans to adjust the legislation and instead give Iowans a route to sue mRNA vaccine manufacturers.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio threw a tantrum in an interview with ABC News after This Week presenter George Stephanopoulos claimed the Trump administration had “taken steps to placate Putin.” Rubio was fuming as he dodged questions from Stephanopoulos and made an eyebrow-raising comparison between the war in Ukraine to conflicts in the Middle East.