The Daily Digest: 5-19-07
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It's six o'clock on Saturday night and there is not a budget agreement. It looks like another late night. Forum Communications, MPR, the Star Tribune, AP and ECM have stories from Friday's negotiations.
Welcome back Senator Stumpf.
The Star Tribune says GOP Sen. Julianne Ortman is on the clock for two jobs at the same time.
WCCO reality checks a gas tax.
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GOP Rep. Jim Abeler and GOP Rep. Kathy Tingelstad will not vote to override Gov. Pawlenty's veto of the transportation package.
Congress
DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar is one of several senators appealing to the UN to help an imprisoned scholar.
Klobuchar also hasn't signed on to the Equal Rights Amendment.
Klobuchar names a new chief of staff.
DFL Rep. Tim Walz defends a pay raise for troops.
DFL Rep. Keith Ellison will receive an Arab American award.
DFL Rep. Collin Peterson wants to cut funding to a conservation program.
U.S. Attorney
Minnesota Lawyer says Tom Heffelfinger will headline the Hennepin County Bar Association's annual meeting next Thursday,
2008
The average IQ for the candidates running for U.S. Senate may spike if Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre enters the race. Listen to an interview with him here.
The Steelworkers endorse Al Franken for Senate.
Other
Ted Mondale pleads guilty to a DWI.
Former DFL Sen. Majority Leader John Hottinger gets his law license suspended.
