Ellison On ISIS Threat: "I'm Not Worried About Them At All"
Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison says when he first heard he was on an ISIS hit list, he thought it was a joke.
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Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison says when he first heard he was on an ISIS hit list, he thought it was a joke.
Lawmakers in the state Senate and House are putting the finishing touches on their school spending packages, queuing up a lengthy debate over the cost and just where that money should come from. Education is one of the few issues so far where lawmakers have shown signs of agreement.
House Republicans are reviving cost-reduction measures in a second budget go-around, detailing their plans Thursday to cut state agency commissioner salaries, freeze public employee hiring and suspend Minnesota's public campaign subsidy program. The legislative deja vu comes as state lawmakers work out how to spend a $900 million surplus.
Plans for a new soccer stadium in St. Paul got a skeptical reception Thursday from a Minnesota House Committee.
A bill that will speed up the development of treatments against the Zika virus will soon become law. Sen. Al Franken wrote the bill that will add the Zika virus to the Food and Drug Administration's Priority Review Voucher Program.
It's going to cost the State of Minnesota at least $5 million to issue new high security driver's licenses, according to a new report from the Department of Public Safety.
A group of republican lawmakers in Minnesota have sent a letter to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory in a show of support of his state's new bathroom law.
House Republicans are reviving some controversial measures to trim the costs of state government.
The first Muslim elected to Congress, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, released a statement Wednesday directed at ISIS, which recently threatened him and other "politically active apostates" with torture and death.
House Republicans say funding Wi-Fi hotspots for students and leveraging federal grants for broadband Internet development are the best ways to reach underserved communities in Minnesota, but Democrats argue the plan doesn't go far enough.
Republicans and Democrats at the Minnesota Legislature are on a collision course as they work out how to spend a $900 million budget surplus.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's national stature is such that he had to call a news conference to deny he wants to be president. Back on Capitol Hill, he's about to blow through a statutory deadline to pass an annual budget, a major embarrassment for him and House Republicans.
Planned Parenthood is calling a stack of anti-abortion bills introduced by Republicans the most aggressive attacks against the organization in years.
Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House want to recruit a new, more diverse pool of teachers and fund early childhood learning and literacy programs.
Minnesota regulators plan a dozen public meetings on Enbridge Energy's proposed Sandpiper oil pipeline across northern Minnesota and its plan to replace its Line 3 pipeline.
