...shutdown when Dayton dropped the income tax proposal after losing a staredown with Republicans. Appearing with Bakk and House DFL leader Paul Thissen at a Capitol news conference Wednesday, Dayton predicted Minnesota would see "progress" under Democratic...
...state to enter into mass purchasing agreements with pharmaceutical manufacturers in exchange for lower drug prices. House DFL Leader Tom Pugh said the federal government isn't moving fast enough on the issue to satisfy some state lawmakers concerned...
...You're not going to be rearranging furniture -- you're going to be bringing the lawn furniture in," said House DFL Leader Tom Pugh. REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES A slate of rules for redrawing the state's political boundaries got the nod...
...injured workers and an endowment created by the tobacco settlement. "They're moving the furniture around," said House DFL Leader Tom Pugh of St. Paul, who added that the plan still was too heavy on tax relief and too short on investments. Pugh...
...budget issues at a Town Hall Forum to be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday in the council chambers of Baxter City Hall. House DFL Leader Matt Entenza, DFL-St. Paul, and Rep. Debra Hilstrom, DFL-Brooklyn Center will co-chair the meeting to encourage...
...hopeful that someday their opposition will melt. Hopefully, that will come before the spring. Rep. Matt Entenza House DFL Leader Social Security Alan Greenspan has called for all of us to start putting away for retirement on our own. Not to rely...
...totally dishonorable," said Senate Minority Leader Dick Day, R-Owatonna. The mutual disarmament comes a day after House DFL leader Tom Pugh asked his GOP counterparts not to "exploit a loophole in the campaign finance law." But the longer the...
...provide as much income as the jobs would have but said they would hopefully take care of people's basic needs. House DFL leader Tom Pugh said, in a news release Monday, Democrats will seek to add Potlatch employees to a bill that extends unemployment...
...Obviously, consumer protection isn't a very high priority for Rep. Walz, Rep. Blaine or Rep. Howes. Rep. Tom Pugh House DFL Leader Don't blame Coleman I read a Dispatch letter with great dismay blaming Norm Coleman for policies that helped force...
...committee. "Members, we've done the best we could." The $7.1 billion bill was approved 74-59 at 4 a.m. House DFL leader Rep. Matt Entenza chastised Republican leaders for working on the 650-page bill when the public couldn't watch...
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