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As unity wanes, Minnesota lawmakers advance new COVID-19 bill

Legislators meet at the Capitol.
Social distancing and substitute meeting areas for lawmakers is in effect in the Minnesota House as legislators met on April 7, 2020, in St. Paul. The Minnesota Legislature muscles through additional bills to respond to COVID-19, but the harmony seen earlier in the state’s fight with the coronavirus pandemic has eroded.
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