Mar 25, 2020
Minnesota Report The Senate is planning to vote on additional COVID-related legislation on Thursday, March 26 at 2 pm. Efforts to maintain the guidelines from the CDC and MDH means this floor session will look different than normal. Below is an outline of how things...
Mar 24, 2020
National Report This is happening worldwide, in Washington DC, in our state Capitols, in every branch of government and in our businesses and homes. The rhetoric is clear we are all in this together, but it is the content of our character that will determine how we...
Mar 24, 2020
National Report House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA06) is in a uniquely favorable position in this time of crisis, because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-KY) is unable to advance items off of the Senate floor due to the self-quarantine of fine Republican US...
Mar 24, 2020
Minnesota Report As Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) starts a self-imposed fourteen-day quarantine, due to a member of his security detail contracting the Coronavirus/Covid-19. He also expected between 40-80 percent of the state’s population will be infected until the virus...
Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report On Sunday, the following statement was released by the legislative leadership regarding their response to the Covid-19, coronavirus and its affects on legislative procedures. Statement from House & Senate leaders regarding legislative...
Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report On Sunday, Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) declared peacetime emergency and he with Commissioners of Education Mary Catherine Ricker¸ Health Jan Malcolm and Employment and Economic Development Steve Grove held a unusual Sunday Press Conference broadcast...
Mar 16, 2020
Minnesota Report Ever since our inception on December 8, 1995, Check & Balances has encouraged lobbyists and lobbying effort to construct web-based lobbying campaigns. The reason being, another mechanism to express the various points of an organization, group,...
Mar 10, 2020
Minnesota Report As the number of reported cases increases to two the legislature takes action. Yesterday, the State Senate acted quickly on SF3813 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health response planning and preparation appropriation, authored by Sen Jerry...
Mar 10, 2020
Minnesota Report The State Government Finance and Policy and Elections Committee Chair Mary Kiffmeyer (R-30, Big Lake) will hear Sen Mark Koran’s (R-32, North Branch) bill SF3385 Ranked-choice voting local government adoption prohibition on Wednesday evening at 6:00...
Mar 4, 2020
Minnesota Report 9:19 am Michael Bloomberg (D-NY) is out of the Democratic Presidential contest. When people looked at the Vice-President Joe Biden (D) campaign last week, it was on life-support and people were ready to put a fork in it. The field of candidates was...
