We posted up with other reporters outside of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s (R-MN) office last evening awaiting the emergence of Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-60A, Minneapolis) and Senate Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark (DFL-15, St. Cloud). The...
The legislative session opening is always ceremony and procedure. Each body must elect its leadership for the forthcoming biennium and install the chamber officers. Families join the new and returning legislators for the swearing-in ceremony and there rarely is any...