Rep. Lyndon Carlson, who chairs the House Ways & Means Committee, said a few provisions in the agriculture and jobs portions of the budget were the most significant hang-ups left.
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The Capitol Note: Senate Democrats to caucus on House’s latest minimum wage deal
The "implicit price deflator" would be capped at a 3 percent annual increase.
Read More »The Capitol Note: House targets include tax cuts, education and capital investment spending
House Majority Leader Erin Murphy said the budget plan would "build on our historic investments in education.
Read More »The Capitol Note: Bakk cautions against spending surplus on tax cuts
1.) Three legislative caucus leaders are eager to go about repealing certain tax increases passed last year, but Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk is still ...
Read More »The Capitol Note: Medicinal marijuana support at 51 percent
The idea is significantly more popular with the young and less affluent, and polls much better with Democrats than Republicans.
Read More »The Capitol Note: Dayton approval at 58 percent
Notably, both Democratic candidates get a slight boost when the poll of adults is trimmed to include only likely voters.
Read More »MN United PAC releases ‘Minnesota 15’ list
On the same day the U.S. Supreme Court struck struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the Minnesotans United PAC released the full "Minnesota 15" list of pro-gay marriage legislators who will be made "priorities" in their reelection campaigns. That list includes the five legislative Republicans who voted in favor of the bill and 10 rural Democrats serving in the House who could be vulnerable after casting their "yes" votes.
Read More »Legislature finishes $38 billion state budget
It was four minutes to midnight on the final day of session when the Minnesota Senate passed the omnibus tax bill that wrapped up the Legislature’s work on the state’s $38 billion budget for the 2014-15 biennium. The down-to-the-wire finish followed a contentious final two weeks of negotiations between House, Senate and the governor’s office over the terms of final budget and policy deals.
Read More »House passes K-12 funding bill
The bill will increase the basic funding formula to schools by $234 million, or 3 percent, which Marquart said would break down to more than $300 in new spending per student.
Read More »The fine print: Minnesota budget bills contain little-noted provisions
Traveling in the House and Senate budget bills are dozens of little-discussed provisions that could become sticking points in final negotiations.
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