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	<title>Politics in Minnesota &#187; government shutdown</title>
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		<title>The fine print: Minnesota budget bills contain little-noted provisions</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2013/05/the-fine-print-minnesota-budget-bills-contain-little-noted-provisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Briana Bierschbach</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Marquart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling in the House and Senate budget bills are dozens of little-discussed provisions that could become sticking points in final negotiations.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate passes 3 shutdown-limiting bills</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/03/senate-passes-3-shutdown-limiting-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/03/senate-passes-3-shutdown-limiting-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Briefing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan DeKruif]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Robling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cohen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julie Rosen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bills are the first to pass the Senate, where a number of shutdown-mitigating bills have been introduced. Republicans are also weighing an "umbrella" shutdown bill.]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol veterans think second half of session will be as uneventful as the first</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/03/capitol-veterans-think-second-half-of-session-will-be-as-uneventful-as-the-first/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/03/capitol-veterans-think-second-half-of-session-will-be-as-uneventful-as-the-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Briana Bierschbach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitol Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Vanasek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Senjem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Carlson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Zipko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Garofalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Moe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Grindal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing lobbyists and longtime Capitol observers of all stripes can agree on with respect to the 2012 legislative session, it’s that the pressure is off.]]></description>
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		<title>Shutdown-related bills are moving through Senate</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/shutdown-related-bills-are-moving-through-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/02/shutdown-related-bills-are-moving-through-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charley Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget / Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Briefing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Nienow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Republican state senator is moving legislation through committee that would hit lawmakers in their pocketbooks when they don’t pass a budget on time.]]></description>
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		<title>GOP eyes constitutional amendment on state spending in 2012</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/01/gop-eyes-constitutional-amendment-on-state-spending-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2012/01/gop-eyes-constitutional-amendment-on-state-spending-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Session Preview 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Kruse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonding bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional amendment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julianne Ortman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Zellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michele Bachmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Drazkowski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By most accounts, a constitutional amendment to make it harder to raise taxes was a key sweetener offered by House Republican leaders last summer in their efforts to entice the chamber’s most conservative members into voting for the budget deal that ended Minnesota’s historic government shutdown.]]></description>
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		<title>State completes tobacco bonds sale</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/11/state-completes-tobacco-bonds-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/11/state-completes-tobacco-bonds-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Briefing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristin Hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota budget deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issuing tobacco bonds to help fix the budget deficit was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the ultimate budget deal agreed to by Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican leadership at the Capitol.]]></description>
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		<title>SCSU survey shows divided state</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/11/scsu-survey-shows-divided-state/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/11/scsu-survey-shows-divided-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 gay marriage constitutional amendment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support for an amendment to ban same-sex marriage stands at 44 percent; more than half of respondents blame the Republican-held Legislature for last summer's government shutdown.]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Dayton reflects on government shutdown, Legislature and new Vikings stadium</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/09/gov-mark-dayton-reflects-on-the-government-shutdown-the-republican-led-legislature-and-the-possibility-of-a-new-vikings-stadium/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/09/gov-mark-dayton-reflects-on-the-government-shutdown-the-republican-led-legislature-and-the-possibility-of-a-new-vikings-stadium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Briana Bierschbach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitol Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Davids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucinda Jesson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tina Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yvonne Prettner-Solon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting down at the long, rectangular wooden table in the back of the governor’s reception room on Thursday, Gov. Mark Dayton noted that the last time he had sat there was during the 20-day state government shutdown that ended in July. ]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court hearing postponed indefinitely</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/07/supreme-court-hearing-postponed-indefinitely/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/07/supreme-court-hearing-postponed-indefinitely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Briefing Room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erick Kaardal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorie Skjerven Gildea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Limmer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gildea did, however, hint that arguments could be heard later, writing that "counsel will be notified at a later date regarding oral argument."]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney: Constitutional challenge to shutdown spending will proceed</title>
		<link>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/07/attorney-constitutional-challenge-to-shutdown-spending-will-proceed/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsinminnesota.com/2011/07/attorney-constitutional-challenge-to-shutdown-spending-will-proceed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Grovum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erick Kaardal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lori Swanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Dayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Limmer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney Erick Kaardal says core separation of powers and constitutional questions remain and deserve a resolution.]]></description>
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