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Brace yourself for this news flash: Republican and Democratic lawmakers representing Aitkin and Crow Wing counties are working together.In the current atmosphere of political partisanship, where the...
...Republican House and Senate members - particularly the tea party Republicans - won't support a tax hike and most Democratic lawmakers won't approve of serious cuts to Social Security and Medicare. He said he sees more possibilities for compromise...
...town. "He's dancing around this issue and people are dying in this country," Rybak said of Reid on MSNBC. Democratic lawmakers and aides, as well as lobbyists, say an assault weapons ban has the least chance of being approved by the Senate...
...in noticeable ways from what Dayton proposed. Democratic lawmakers were reluctant to commit themselves either way...office in 2014." Just as Dayton has to win over Democratic lawmakers, those lawmakers must win over constituents...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democratic lawmakers on Thursday proposed commissioning a bust of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun for display in the state Capitol...
...marriage. "I think there's a great chance and I'll be pushing it on my representatives," Jones said. But even Democratic lawmakers who strongly back gay marriage rights said there are risks if the party is seen as pushing it too quickly at the...
...by opponent Allen Quist, saying they call Quist's judgment and electability into question. On Twitter, two Democratic lawmakers urged Parry to apologize and a Republican legislator called Dayton a "gentleman." Parry spokesman Ben Golnik...
...with the boy after putting an ad on Craigslist. Gauthier was interviewed by police July 31. The first-term Democratic lawmaker from Duluth did not immediately respond to an email message from The Associated Press. His home voicemail was...
...used to create the bill. It was the product of negotiations between Dayton, a Democrat, and top Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who signed an agreement barring rank-and-file lawmakers from making any changes to the flood package or bringing...