May 5, 2025
Minnesota Report We have queried repeatedly, what is the configuration of the MN House/Senate Conference Committee structure going to be and last week we finally received an answer. It will be 4/3. Now, we have as of yet to clarify if that will be as we expect two...
Apr 24, 2025
Minnesota Report Yesterday evening, Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) addresses the joint session of the legislature and rendered his sixth State of the State Address. He opened his remarks calling on Republicans, likely House Republicans, to come together for our state,...
Apr 23, 2025
National & Minnesota Report Barbarianism, you ask? Well yes, when we treat strangers in a fashion that casts them in to prisons in El Salvador it is akin to the prison colonies of yore. Where it was just the Governor of a nearly any place in the world who had not...
Apr 23, 2025
Minnesota Report Unless something seismic occurs—a shift so profound that we couldn’t have foreseen it in January—the conclusion of this legislative session is fast becoming inevitable. As we predicted months ago, the absence of clearly defined rules for...
Apr 23, 2025
Minnesota Report It was, to say the least, curious when former Speaker Kurt Daudt (R) singled out the recently married Republican legislators, Sen Jason Rarick (R-11, Pine City) and Rep Marion “O’Neill” Rarick (R-29B, Maple Lake), as the latest...
Apr 10, 2025
National & Minnesota Report In what can only be described as a bewildering flip-flop, President Donald Trump (R) recently announced a 90-day pause on tariffs that had been set to dramatically reshape the global trade landscape. This sudden backpedal comes after...
Apr 10, 2025
National & Minnesota Report When Donald J Trump (R) was a candidate, his message resonated with millions of Americans. He was the self-proclaimed outsider who would “drain the swamp,” bring jobs back to the country, and strike deals that would make America great...
Apr 10, 2025
International, National & Minnesota Report As the world watched in stunned silence, Donald J. Trump’s (R) tariff strategy unfolded like a disastrous symphony of political theatrics and economic chaos. It wasn’t just the working-class Americans who were getting...
Apr 10, 2025
Minnesota Report Since the House is the body of origination of all spending bills, they set the tenure of the starting points for negotiation with the Governor and Senate on all spending bills. Here is the House Budget Proposal broken out by Committee area. This is...
Apr 10, 2025
Minnesota Report SAINT PAUL – On April 10, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the U.S. Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act commonly known as the SAVE Act. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon issued the following statement: “The SAVE Act would...
