Capitol Notepad, May 26, 2009

by Staff
Published: May 26,2009
Time posted: 1:00 am
Tags: Capitol Notepad

Now that we’re in the legislative off-season, we’ll try using the Notepad as our collection bin for news bites of the day. Let us know if you find this style helpful!

One upcoming item: Rep. Dean Urdahl(R-Grove City) is going to deliver to Washington D.C. the resolution he authored asking Congress to repeal the 1863 law that barred Dakota and Winnebago Native Americans from Minnesota. He’s having a presser tomorrow, and also wrote a book, “Uprising,” on the subject.

Tomorrow the House K-12 Education Policy and Oversight will head to the Minneapolis Convention Center to look at “creating communities of support for children,” hearing from various groups.

Speaking of supporting children, the most famous cancer-carrying kid in the world, Daniel Hauser, is having his hearing today, and the libertarians at Reason Magazine couldn’t ignore the less-than-subtle irony of the state demanding he get chemotherapy while GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoes the medical marijuana bill that would mitigate the suffering of terminal cancer patients. Who’s calling the shots, and why does the DEA get power over the medical community to decide these things nationally? Senior editor Radley Balko nails it:

…[T]he two positions are consistent in one important way

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