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May 18, 2026

Senator Jasinski secures tab fee cuts and infrastructure victories in 2026 bonding bill

Senator John Jasinski (R-Faribault) secured a series of victories for southern Minnesota following passage of the 2026 bonding bill, which cleared the Legislature just before midnight on May 17. The bill includes Sen. Jasinski’s top…

May 17, 2026

Sen. Drazkowski’s "Take it Back" Act included in Final Legislative Agreement

Senator Steve Drazkowski's bill to force people who perpetrate public program fraud to pay back every dollar they stole from Minnesota taxpayers has been agreed upon and included in the final end-of-session agreement. SF 5032, the…

May 17, 2026

Heintzeman: Wildfire Resources

Friends and neighbors, By now you have certainly heard about the Flanders Fire burning near Breezy Point, Crosslake, and Mission Township in Crow Wing County. It has rapidly grown in size, and this morning Gov.…

May 16, 2026

Senator Lang Capitol Update May 11, 2026

Friends and neighbors, It’s the last week of session, and the issue I’ve heard the most concern and outrage about from constituents all session long is fraud. Today in the Senate, we took a major…

May 15, 2026

Kreun bill seeks to limit harmful effects of social media - passes Senate unanimously

Today with unanimous bipartisan support, the Senate passed a bill authored by Senator Michael Kreun (R-Blaine) that seeks to protect children from the harms of addictive social media. This bill creates a new law…

May 15, 2026

Gruenhagen: Minnesota Democrats’ inflammatory rhetoric is responsible for immigration enforcement chaos

Friends and neighbors, Nobody is happy about the chaos of the federal immigration raids. But that chaos was caused by Democrat leaders' inflammatory rhetoric and their lack of cooperation with the federal government. It was…

May 14, 2026

Assistant Leader Coleman, Senate Republicans deliver tab fee tax cut for Minnesota

On Wednesday night, Assistant Republican Leader Senator Julia Coleman (R–Waconia) and Senate Republicans announced they delivered a quarter-billion-dollar tab fee tax cut for Minnesotans as part of end of session negotiations. In exchange for an…

May 14, 2026

Senator Carla Nelson announces retirement from Minnesota Senate

State Senator Carla Nelson (R-Rochester) announced today that she will not seek re-election, bringing to a close a public service career that has spanned three decades. Sen. Nelson, who has represented communities in Olmsted and…

May 14, 2026

Republicans negotiate tab fee tax cut for end of session deal

Legislative leaders and the Governor came to an agreement Wednesday evening to reduce tab fees, pass a bonding bill, implement fraud prevention measures, bail out Hennepin County Medical Center, and provide property tax rebates. Republicans…

May 14, 2026

Senate Republicans deliver tab fee tax cut for Minnesotans

On Wednesday night, Senate Republicans announced they delivered a quarter of a billion-dollar tab fee tax cut for Minnesotans as part of end of session negotiations. In exchange for an infrastructure bill, along with commonsense…

May 13, 2026

Nelson: Senate unanimously approves bill to increase penalties for impersonating police officer

The Minnesota Senate voted on Wednesday to increase criminal penalties for impersonating a law enforcement officer, sending the bill to Governor Tim Walz for his signature. The measure passed by a unanimous 67-0 vote. The…

May 13, 2026

Gruenhagen: If there is fraud, people need to be fired!

Friends and neighbors, Minnesota’s fraud problems have been building for a long time, and so has the pattern of Gov. Walz and Democrat leaders looking the other way. There have been numerous reports of DHS…

May 11, 2026

Heintzeman: Democrats choose hyper-partisanship again

Friends and neighbors, I am sure you have seen the headlines by now, but on May 4, Senate Democrats passed a sweeping and probably unconstitutional gun control bill. As you can probably guess, I voted…

May 11, 2026

Senate Republicans Urge Cooperation and Coordination on Immigration Enforcement

Senate Democrats today passed a bill that would create safe harbor for illegal immigrants in Minnesota and attract the most dangerous criminals to the state. The highly partisan measure is likely unconstitutional and has no…

May 11, 2026

Sen. Draheim co-authors anti-fraud office bill headed to governor’s desk

Today the Minnesota Senate passed an updated version of the bill to establish an Office of Inspector General (OIG) in response to the state’s fraud crisis. The Senate previously passed a version of the bill…

May 11, 2026

Lieske: Rescuing Family Residential Service providers

Friends and neighbors, Minnesota has a resource that most people have never heard of called Family Residential Services, or FRS. I know it probably sounds like a mouthful of government jargon, but it is actually…

May 11, 2026

Sen. Koran applauds passage of independent anti-fraud office he first proposed in 2019

May 11, 2026

Governor signs HF 4052 into law, marking major step toward modernizing Minnesota telecommunications regulation

On Thursday, May 7, Governor Tim Walz signed HF 4052 into law, representing the first major modernization of Minnesota’s landline telephone regulatory structure in more than 40 years. The legislation updates a regulatory framework originally…

May 11, 2026

Senate sends bill to establish Office of Inspector General to Governor

Today the Minnesota Senate passed an updated version of the bill to establish an Office of Inspector General in response to the state’s fraud crisis. The Senate previously passed a version of the bill more than a…

May 11, 2026

Senator Holmstrom Capitol Update May 8, 2026

Friends and neighbors, Earlier this week, Senate Democrats decided to pass an all-out attack on the Constitution in the form of a bill that bans Second Amendment rights. During the floor debate, I stood up and said that I would not comply…