Posted at 11:30 AM on April 18, 2007
by Tom Scheck
The Minnesota Senate has been flying through their policy bills this week. In fact, there has been little debate on many of the bills. So it was interesting to hear a ten minute debate on the revolving door legislation that would prevent lawmakers, commissioners and agency heads from becoming lobbyists for one year. The Senate defeated the measure on a tie vote (33 to 33). You can read the story here.
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