Today, the Senate passed a comprehensive public safety bill, which provides critical funding to hold criminals accountable. Read more View All Updates Join Us Your Involvement Is Important We can't do this without you! Whether you contribute financially or with your time, you can make a differen...
Just a few years ago, there were no DFL lawmakers from our area serving in the Minnesota legislature. But after electing Dan Wolgamott in 2018 and flipping a Senate seat in 2020 to send Aric Putnam to the Capitol, we’re proud to have representation that reflects our values — and that ...
Charlie Crist today said there’s no truth to the rumors that he’s about to drop his faltering Senate primary bid and try for re-election as Governor instead. • IL-Sen: Patrick Hughes, who’s been seeding his right-wing insurgent bid with some of his own money, is seeking to ...
County Commissioner District 4 Brian Mueller58% Kindra Ramaker42% County Commissioner District 5 Catherine Davis56% Michelle Rossman44% County Attorney Mark A. Ostrem61% Karen MacLaughlin39% State Senate (Rochester) District 24 Carla Nelson (R)58% Aleta Borrud (D)42% District 25 Liz Boldon (D...
In fact, a year after the Senate passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, a bank opened that was geared specifically toward women. 1976 Everett Collection // Shutterstock 1976 - Absolute gas price: $0.61- Inflation-adjusted price: $2.77 (#35 most expensive year in 84-year span) Absolute ...
The House voted 264 to 129 to add the provision to a $630-million appropriations bill. The House, and the Senate hours later, passed the overall measure by voice vote and sent it to the White House. The money is intended to reimburse the district for lost tax revenues and for city serv...
“I can’t remember a day in those 12 years that I didn’t get up in the morning looking forward to going to work,” Evans said. “As governor, you have a chance to control the agenda. One of the frustrations in the Senate is to find that you are so often measured in what you...
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, retained his Senate seat thanks to a Texas law that allowed him to seek reelection there even as he ran on the national ticket. With all but a few incumbents in both parties coasting to easy victories, the Democrats appe...
A second vacancy cleared the way in August, 1969, for nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, a South Carolina appeals judge, but the Senate balked. It also rejected G. Harrold Carswell, the Florida district judge Nixon nominated after Haynsworth. ...
Marriages had been performed twice before in the Senate but never in memory in the Assembly and never while a house was in session--until Thursday. And so, the usual cynicism that stalks the Capitol corridors seemed temporarily on hold as the colorful, dress-up ceremony unfolded. ...