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Who's Ahead?
Alice Hausman
Bill Signing Bliss
05/29/08
The love was everywhere. The love was bi-partisan. The love was coming from the governor to lawmakers, even DFL lawmakers. House Tax Chair Ann Lenczewski got an enormous amount of praise for helping making the whole end of session deal happen. Bonding Chairs Langseth and Hausman got humorous props too.
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( categories: 2008 Presidential Race | Bonding | Consumers | Defense | Environment | Health Care | Transportation | 05/2008 | Alice Hausman | Ann Lenczewski | John McCain | Keith Langseth | Linda Berglin | Thomas Huntley | Tim Pawlenty | Mary's Page )
Where Lawmakers Stand (05/09/08)
Ten days are left this legislative session. Mary Lahammer gives you a scorecard on where progress stands on the session's big issues.
Budget for Birthday
05/09/08
Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher wants a budget deal for the state's 150th birthday present on Sunday. It's a great PR angle, but depending whom you believe a deal is close or completely out of reach. Democrats all say it's "doable" if the governor wants a deal, but Republican Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem said negotiations are "on life support with funeral arrangements pending." Sen. Geoff Michel said he fears they're living in a world where there aren't global deals anymore. Last year there was no global deal on all the end of session issues for the first time in memory.
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( categories: Bonding | Budget | Transportation | 05/2008 | Alice Hausman | Dave Senjem | Geoff Michel | Margaret Anderson Kelliher | Marty Seifert | Mary's Page )
Murphy v. Pawlenty
05/06/08
Sen. Steve Murphy says the governor's staff told him he had to pick 2 out of 3 provisions in transportation bill, so Murphy says he has to drop booster seat language to preserve a primary seatbelt offense and graduated driver’s licenses for teens.
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( categories: Bonding | Transportation | 05/2008 | Alice Hausman | Brian McClung | Michael Campion | Steve Murphy | Tim Pawlenty | Mary's Page )
Gender Gap Recap--McClung Letter
04/08/08
This unsigned anonymous note is what greeted me this morning in my Capitol office. Frankly, it's rather creepy to me to have people putting accusatory notes in my office when I'm not there. I have had people stalk me, who leave anonymous notes, follow me and have threatened to kill me. This is true for almost anyone who works in television, so we're a bit sensitive to such actions.
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( categories: 04/2008 | Alice Hausman | Brian McClung | Ellen Anderson | Sandy Pappas | Tim Pawlenty | Tony Sertich | Mary's Page )
Veto Gender Gap?
04/07/08
Gov. Pawlenty hit projects hard that are close to House Chair Alice Hausman (DFL-St. Paul). Majority Leader Tony Sertich called it "personal" what Pawlenty did to chair Hausman. Sen. Sandy Pappas (DFL-St. Paul) was very emotional right after the gov's press conference, saying the vetoes are "insults to chair Hausman." The question some reporters started asking is if gender looks like a factor with Hausman being a female chair.
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( categories: Bonding | Transportation | 04/2008 | Alice Hausman | Ellen Anderson | Keith Langseth | Sandy Pappas | Tim Pawlenty | Tony Sertich | Mary's Page )
Capitol Update - April 7, 2008 (04/07/08)
Capitol Update - April 1, 2008 (04/01/08)
Headlines (03/26/08)
The bonding and 35W victims compensation bills enter conference committee, the Senate releases its tax bill, the Mall of America seeks tax breaks for its expansion project and Norm Coleman kicks off his re-election campaign.
Easter Break for Lawmakers (03/21/08)
Legislators emptied out of St. Paul this week for a spring break. Our Mary Lahammer gives us the highs and lows of the first six weeks of the legislative session.
