by Mike Mullen
Published: May 24, 2013
EVENTS WHAT’S COMING UP DAYTON: Gov. Mark Dayton will attend an event at Peter Hobart Elementary School to meet with parents, teachers and students following a landslide that killed two schoolchildren earlier this weekduring a field trip. Dayton will meet with staff throughout the day to review pending legislation. Later he will tape an interview [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 23, 2013
EVENTS WHAT’S COMING UP DAYTON: Gov. Mark Dayton has no public events schedule today, and will spend the day meeting with staff to review legislation that awaits his signature. WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY MAYO CELEBRATION: Gov. Mark Dayton and legislative leaders appeared in Rochester yesterday to mark the successful passage of up to $327 million in [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 22, 2013
EVENTS WHAT’S COMING UP DAYTON: Gov. Mark Dayton will begin a busy day with a 10:30 a.m. signing ceremony for the 2014-15 education budget bill. He will be joined by House Speaker Paul Thissen and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk in the governor’s reception room. At 12:45 p.m., the same trio will hold a press [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 21, 2013
EVENTS WHAT’S COMING UP DAYTON: Gov. Mark Dayton will join House Speaker Paul Thissen and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk for a post-session press conference in the Governor’s reception room at 10:00 a.m. Dayton also has meetings with staff scheduled throughout the day. WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY BONDING, BUDGET CLEARED JUST IN TIME: The 2013 legislative [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 20, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: The Legacy conference committee, the last budgeting conference committee to complete its work, is expected to vote on its report soon after convening at 9:00 a.m. this morning. Also on the schedule, at least tentatively, is a House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee hearing, which is scheduled to begin at the call of [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 17, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: The Senate Committee on State and Local Government will take up a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a compensation council to set salaries for legislators at 8:30 a.m. Remaining conference committee work is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., when the transportation omnibus bill committee will meet. The taxes conference committee and [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 16, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: Aside from an 8:30 a.m. House Rules and Legislative Committee Hearing, the whole of today’s legislative schedule is consumed by floor sessions and conference committee hearings, including a transportation conference committee hearing scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. Several other conference committees are scheduled to begin following the Senate floor session, or at [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 15, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: Much of today’s schedule appears subject to change due to the all-night debate in the Senate over the bill to allow home daycare workers and personal care assistants (PCAs) to form unions. (See below.) The taxes conference committee is scheduled to meet at 8:30 a.m. this morning, or at the call of the [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 14, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: At 8:30 a.m., the Senate Finance Committee will take up a bill meant to improve the state’s cooperation with federal authorities on background checks for firearm purchasers. Also on the agenda today is a bill that would establish a compensation council with the authority to set legislators’ pay; that bill is scheduled to [...]
by Mike Mullen
Published: May 13, 2013
CAPITOL SCHEDULE: Much of the day’s schedule will be taken up by numerous conference committee hearings, including the 9:00 a.m. meeting to reconcile the E-12 education funding omnibus bills. Immediately following a Senate floor session, the Senate Finance Committee will take up the bill meant to combat bullying in the state’s public schools. The House [...]
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