House DFL picks committee leads

Posted at 2:22 PM on December 20, 2010 by Tom Scheck (4 Comments)
Filed under: MN Legislature

Democrats in the Minnesota House have submitted their requests for each committee.

Many of the leads chaired the committees before the DFL lost the majority in November.

The makeup of the committee structure is considered by incoming GOP House Speaker Kurt Zellers but I'm told Zellers won't make many, if any, changes to the requests by the DFL.

Here's the list that was released by DFL Minority Leader Paul Thissen's office:

Environment & Energy: Rep. Wagenius (Environment) & Rep. Hilty (Energy)
Education Reform: Rep. Mariani
State Government: Rep. Kahn
Judiciary: Rep. Johnson
Property Taxes: Rep. Marquardt
Ways & Means: Rep. Carlson
Taxes: Rep. Lenczewski
Government Operations: Rep. Nelson
Public Safety: Rep. Mullery
Agriculture: Rep. Eken
Civil Law: Rep. Lesch
Transportation: Rep. Hornstein
Veterans: Rep. Koenen
Jobs & Economic Development: Rep. Clark (Housing) & Rep. Mahoney (Jobs)
HHS Finance: Rep. Huntley
K-12 Finance: Rep. Greiling
Higher Education: Rep. Rukavina
Commerce: Rep. Atkins
Capital Investment: Rep. Hausman
HHS Reform: Rep. Liebling
Legacy: Rep. Dill
Rules: Rep. Pelowski
Redistricting: Rep. Mary Murphy

Comments (4)

The list I saw had Erin Murphy, not Mary Murphy, as the DFL lead for redistricting. Can you double check this?

Posted by Annie G. | December 20, 2010 2:57 PM

I'm glad to see Rep. Rukavina is staying on Higher Education. Much work to be done there. I see him as the DFLs only real fighter.

Posted by Jesse D. | December 20, 2010 3:51 PM

I was going to comment on that too. It looks like Erin Murphy and Steve Simon are both getting nothing in terms of leadership positions this session, after putting their names in the running for Majority Leader (back when the assumption was the DFL would control the House after the election).

Of course, if Murphy did get redistricting, then I guess that's something.

Posted by Chris | December 20, 2010 4:11 PM

An initial post said Erin Murphy was gong to chair redistricting but the House DFL corrected the news release.

Posted by Tom Scheck | December 20, 2010 8:59 PM

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