Minnesota's budget and shutdown

Legislative session ends without budget deal

The Minnesota Legislature's 2009 session ended at three minutes after midnight early Tuesday without a budget deal. Lawmakers spent the final half hour passing a tax bill that Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to veto. The tax bill capped a busy day, in which lawmakers debated everything from money to marijuana.

MPR's partisan political analysts Todd Rapp and Tom Horner look back at the five-month session.

Guests

• Tom Horner: MPR's Republican political analyst.
• Todd Rapp: MPR's Democratic-Farmer-Labor political analyst.

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Resources

• Minnesota Legislature