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2025 Minnesota legislative session

MPR News is your source for updates on the 2025 Minnesota legislative session. Whether you’re looking for information about a new law or want an update on state funding decisions, you can find it here.

MPR News Primer: The 'right-to-work' debate

It's a topic so controversial, backers and opponents can't even agree on how to describe it. Republicans call it "right-to-work." Democrats say it has nothing to do with anyone's rights and everything to do with squeezing worker pay and weakening unions.
by Paul Tosto

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Chairman's spending decisions on insiders helped lead to GOP debt

Chairman's spending decisions on insiders helped lead to GOP debt

Tony Sutton, a Republican leader with 25 years of hard-earned respect from the party that prides itself on fiscal discipline, awarded contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to consultants, lawmakers, candidates and party insiders over the course of nearly 30 months as state party chairman, contributing to the financial wreckage the party is trying to fix today.
by Tom Scheck and Catharine Richert

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Former leaders offer views on Minnesota's future

Former leaders offer views on Minnesota's future

A former GOP speaker of the House, former DFL Senate majority leader, former GOP Senate minority leader and a former state finance commissioner join Gary Eichten to talk about the state of the state.
by Duane Benson

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Senjem: Koch should remain in Senate

Senjem: Koch should remain in Senate

Newly elected Senate Republican Majority Leader Dave Senjem says he thinks his predecessor, Amy Koch, should continue to serve in the Minnesota Senate through the end of her term.
by Tim Pugmire

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Minn. GOP left shaky after Sen. Koch steps down

Minn. GOP left shaky after Sen. Koch steps down

Amy Koch's abrupt resignation as majority leader had already thrown Senate Republicans for a loop - now the Minnesota GOP must deal with the scandal as an election year approaches.
by Tom Scheck

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Dayton, state lawmakers want credit for budget surplus

Dayton, state lawmakers want credit for budget surplus

Gov. Mark Dayton and state lawmakers are headed into the 2012 legislative session with a budget surplus, news that has a lot of elected and appointed officials taking credit for the state's return to the black. But much of the $876 million surplus has little to do with the actions taken in the past year.
by Tom Scheck

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State report to tally price of Minn. shutdown

Was Minnesota's 20-day government shutdown a money saver or budget drain? The Department of Minnesota Management and Budget plans to answer that question Tuesday with a report detailing costs and savings during the July standoff.

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Gov. Dayton, GOP Legislature point fingers for unpopular compromise

Nearly three months after reaching a budget deal to erase a $5 billion deficit and end a state government shutdown, Gov. Mark Dayton and leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature are blaming each other for the unpopular pieces of the agreement.
by Tim Pugmire

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