There?s lingering bitterness among Republicans about the House DFL majority?s vote earlier this week to require amendments to be filed 24 hours before bills are heard on the floor, but it looks like they won?t kill the bonding bill over it.
There was a suggestion during the nine and a half hours of debate Monday and early Tuesday that Republicans might do just that in retaliation for a rule they said was a power grab by the Democrats and a threat to open debate. Bonding bills require a supermajority to pass, which means the Democrats would need some Republican support.
?I have said all along we?re not going to hold a bonding bill hostage. But I will tell you that this rule has very much angered my members,? House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, said Friday.
?So we haven?t had that conversation yet. I hope that?s not the case. I don?t want to play politics with a bonding bill. I want to debate a bonding bill based on its merits and at the appropriate time, and I think we can still do that. But my members are very angry about this rule.?
House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, said the new rule does not limit debate, and that tanking the bonding bill over this rule change would hurt Republicans. ?Minnesotans didn?t vote for that.?
Daudt and Thissen and the two other caucus leaders also touched on the proposal to legalize gay marriage during press conferences Friday.
Daudt said he personally opposes gay marriage as a member of the Missouri Synod Lutheran church but that he does not expect there will be a caucus position on the issue. Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, said it won?t be a caucus position with his members either.
That?s true for Senate Democrats as well, said Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook. He said he wants the budget off the floor and into conference committee before the Senate takes up policy issues like gay marriage or gun control.
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