Well, tonight’s the night of the Checks & Balances Session Stress Reliever. It is occurring at the Rathskeller of the Minnesota Brewing Company located at 882 W. 7th Street in St. Paul. There has been some confusion people are thinking it is in the Rathskeller of...
By statute, the legislature is allowed to be in session for 120 legislative days each biennium. The definition of a legislative day is when either body meets. Historically, the session lengths were 100 days in 1991-92, 106 days in 1993-94, 113 days in 1995-96 and 109...
Two interesting rule changes in the State House have caught our attention lately. The first is the expansion of the number of authors on any piece of legislation. Previously, the number was limited to 5 and now that has been opened up. We came across some interesting...
There is some speculation about the constitutionality of the Omnibus Bill passed last week in the state House. The Bill has been called the “mother of all garbage bills” and may impinge on the close of the legislative session. The short description in the...
Now that the legislative session has moved into conference committee mode, we can look at the main issues that will determine the viability of a train wreck scenario. The five issues that we forecast to become the movable chess pieces are: Upper Tier Income Tax Cuts...
