Gruenhagen: Prioritizing Minnesotans over illegal immigrants

Friends and neighbors, During a debate on the Senate’s Human Services budget proposal last week, I offered a common-sense amendment: instead of spending millions of your tax dollars on MinnesotaCare coverage for illegal immigrants, let’s…

Heintzeman: Common-sense changes to the sick time mandate

Friends and neighbors, On Wednesday, I, along with my Senate Republican colleagues, brought forward and successfully passed greatly needed improvements to Minnesota’s Earned Sick and Safe Time law. Small business owners, family farms, and employers across Minnesota…

Senate GOP stands ready to move bipartisan energy bill

Senator Andrew Mathews (R-Princeton) released the following statement of support to vote for the bipartisan energy bill that was passed out of Energy Committee with bipartisan support: “I stand ready, along with my Republican colleagues,…
Robert Farnsworth

Sen. Farnsworth ready to work towards bipartisanship

Today Senator Robert Farnsworth (R-Hibbing) successfully amended the energy omnibus bill with a bipartisan amendment recognizing the burning of wood waste as part of Minnesota’s carbon-free energy standards. This change would reduce carbon emissions by…