Tag: Melissa Hortman
National group says it will spend record amount to help GOP...
Just one week after the nationally televised debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a campaign committee representing Republican state House candidates in Minnesota...
GOP legislators call on Walz to veto 1,400-page bill passed amid...
Republican leaders in the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Senate called on Gov. Tim Walz to veto a 1,400-page bill that was...
Legislative session ends in chaos as Democrats push 1,400-page omnibus bill
Chaos erupted in both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature as the final moments of the 2024 legislative session took place. Republicans, who are in...
Equal Rights Amendment dies in final hours of legislative session
After months of discussion, intrigue, and fierce criticism, the so-called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is officially dead -- for now.
Over the weekend, Democratic legislators...
House Republicans cry foul as Speaker Hortman cuts off debate over...
Can anything good happen after midnight? That adage was tested in both legislative chambers at the Minnesota Capitol in the early hours of Thursday morning.
As...
New forecast shows $3.7 billion budget surplus, but deficit on the...
The state’s projected budget surplus for the next two years has grown by about $1.3 billion, to $3.7 billion, compared to what state officials indicated last November.
That’s...
Sanctuary state and assisted suicide legislation appear to be dead —...
On Monday, legislative leaders in the Minnesota House and Senate effectively announced the death knell for two major pieces of left-wing legislation.
Melissa Hortman, the...
Top ranking DFL legislator leaves Twitter
After tweeting nearly 13,000 times over the last dozen years, the DFL’s top ranking lawmaker in the House of Representatives says she’s walking away from the...
Leaders from both sides tout efforts to secure $300 million nursing...
Key leaders from both sides of the aisle at the Minnesota Legislature -- who reached an 11th hour, end-of-session deal that provides a long-awaited...
Democrats trim rebate checks down to $260 per filer
Minnesotans will be getting a smaller chunk of the state’s $17.5 billion budget surplus than initially promised by Gov. Tim Walz.
Walz previously proposed sending...