Minnesota State Legislature
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39 Committees,
0 Joint Committees
1,775 Bills,
0 Key Votes
Legislators
148 Senators
(78 Democratic-Farmer-Laborers,
70 Republicans)
Each represents approx.
No pop. per upper chamber member data.
and serves four-year terms with a two-term limit.
42 Committees,
0 Joint Committees
1,868 Bills,
0 Key Votes
Legislators
171 Representatives
(86 Democratic-Farmer-Laborers,
85 Republicans)
Each represents approx.
No pop. per lower chamber member data.
and serves four-year terms with a two-term limit.
Official Site (leg.state.mn.us)
Minnesota State Legislature
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Next Election
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More Links
Here are more links with background on the Minnesota government and the best online explanations of how its legislative branch works:
- The official website of the Minnesota State Legislature
- The Transparency and Accountability Project for Minnesota, a government website making budget, spending and contracting information more easily accessible
- Wikipedia articles on the House of Representatives and Senate
- Ballotpedia on the Legislature, Senate elections, House elections, and ballot measures
- OpenCongress pages for MN federal legislators, including senators and representatives.
- OpenCongress Wiki's list of Minnesota state political blogs
- GovLoop - social networking for government, including employees from federal, state, and local government.
- Stateline - a nonprofit, nonpartisan online news site that practices journalism in the public interest by reporting on emerging trends and issues in state policy and politics. A project of the Pew Center on the States
- Sunshine Review - Minnesota, a non-profit organization dedicated to state and local government transparency
- Common Cause - Minnesota, a non-profit, non-partisan citizens' lobby organization
- Draw Minnesota, a non-profit effort to ensure the redistricting process is fair and transparent.
- Minnesota State Laws online on the Cornell University Legal Information Institute (LII)
- Official MN State Government portal from USA.gov
- Minnesota Public Radio coverage of the legislature, including issue areas such as taxes & finance
- Minnesota Politics Forum on E-Democracy.org, the Executive Director of which, Steve Clift, is based in Minneapolis.
- Search for hashtag #mnleg on the popular closed micro-publishing service, Twitter.