Jesse Ventura (Reform) originally appointed one justice. The Minnesota Constitution requires "that state Senate districts be contiguous, and that Representative districts be nested within Senate ...

The Minnesota House of Representatives reached a power-sharing agreement after a 23-day boycott by DFL members ... 14, after Secretary of State Steve Simon adjourned the meeting since it failed ...

The Minnesota House of Representatives chamber was packed Thursday, as the legislative body's DFL members ended their 23-day boycott ... House Republicans tried to elect Demuth as speaker on Jan. 14, ...

Minnesota House Republican Rep. Lisa Demuth and DFL Rep. Melissa Hortman shake hands after Demuth was elected Speaker of the House at the State Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday. The Minnesota House ...

Yet on Thursday morning, parties did not agree to postpone the hearing over DFL Secretary of State Steve Simon ... “Because the Minnesota House of Representatives has not yet organized and ...

A nearly four-week standoff in the Minnesota House was headed toward ... “It’s like the first day of school, finally,” said DFL Rep. Melissa Hortman, her party’s leader as she returned ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.- Representatives from across the state returned to the capitol on Thursday, Feb. 6, after a deal was reached between the Minnesota DFL and GOP the day before. Thanks to a joint power ...

Dana Ferguson at MPR News reports: “A nearly four-week standoff over control in the Minnesota House appears to be near an end, with Democrats and Republicans planning to announce a deal on Thursday.

(St. Paul, MN)--House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman has announced a bipartisan power-sharing agreement that will allow the Minnesota House to begin conducting business during today’s (Thursday) session.

A nearly four-week standoff over control in the Minnesota House appears to be near ... House Leaders Lisa Demuth, R-Cold Spring, and Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, have been leading the ...

Way more than 38 words have been written by GOP and DFL lawyers over the last several weeks to parse each ... payment — for the entire two years of this Legislature. Simon hasn’t let them. State Rep.

ending their majority in the House — bringing the chamber to a 67-67 tie — and eradicating the DFL’s trifecta over state government. The Minnesota House is in disarray, as Democrat Curtis ...