Tag: Melissa Hortman
Will budget agreement hold? DFLers decry cuts to state health care...
Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders in Minnesota have agreed to a two-year state budget deal that significantly reduces a looming $6 billion deficit,...
Balance of power shifts to tie as 67th Democrat is seated...
The newest member of the Minnesota legislature told a national media outlet in recent days that he’s prepared to work with Republicans toward a bipartisan solution...
Minnesota House Democrats vote down bill to restore funding for pregnancy...
For more than 100 minutes on Thursday, Democrats and Republicans in the Minnesota House of Representatives engaged in a heated floor debate over whether to restore...
Demuth elected speaker as DFLers appear on House floor after three-week...
Lisa Demuth had already been elected speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives once this legislative session. But on Thursday, that designation was made official, as enough...
Deal reached to end Minnesota House standoff
The DFL’s three-week boycott of the legislative session will come to an end this week after party leaders agreed on terms for organizing the...
Republicans say Simon ignored motion to compel absent DFL legislators to...
Could another legal battle be brewing over establishing a quorum in the Minnesota House of Representatives?
On Monday, all 67 Republican members of the House...
Minnesota Supreme Court sides with Democrats, says 68 House members is...
In a blow to Republicans, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the presence of 68 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives is required...
Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments over quorum lawsuit
Attorneys for Secretary of State Steve Simon and House DFL leadership made their case before the state’s top court on Thursday as co-petitioners in a...
Republicans ask Minnesota Supreme Court to dismiss House Democrats’ quorum lawsuit
A rematch between attorneys who represented opposing sides in a 2023 lawsuit to remove then-presidential candidate Donald Trump from the Minnesota ballot is set...
House Democrats, secretary of state ask Supreme Court to intervene in...
State Democrats believe that the actions taken by their Republican colleagues during the opening day of the legislative session “were improper and unlawful” and...