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The Daily Digest (minimum wage, endorsements, 2016)

Welcome to Monday's Daily Digest.

Minnesota:

Legislative leaders are expected to announce a deal on a minimum wage increase. They said last night they would hold a news conference this morning to talk about it.  There has already been a preliminary agreement to raise the wage to $9.50 per hour. The dispute was over whether to index the rate to inflation.

DFL State Rep. Phyllis Kahn failed to win endorsement for a 22nd term at her district convention. Her race with Mohamud Noor  is headed to the primary.  (MPR News)

First district Republicans endorsed Aaron Miller to run against U.S. Rep. Tim Walz. (Rochester Post Bulletin)

Second congressional district Republicans endorsed Republican Congressman John Kline for a seventh term. (MPR News)

The latest Supreme Court ruling on campaign donations will have an effect on at least a few of Minnesota donors. (MPR News)

PoliGraph says a DFL claim about Sen. Julianne Ortman's record is mostly right. (MPR News)

A legislative panel will decide if the state's new health insurance exchange will get a top-to-bottom audit. (MPR News)

Washington:

President Barack Obama is poised to sign an executive order Tuesday that is meant to assuage pay disparities among federal contractor employees. (AP via MPR News)

Jeb Bush has a campaign strategy (but he hasn't declared that he's running). (The New York Times)

Potential 2016 candidates are studying up for a run. (The Washington Post)

The Koch brothers fundraising apparatus is going after Democrats and now Democrats think they've found a way to go after the Kochs. (The News York Times)

Vulnerable Democratic Senators are getting plenty of face time on the Senate floor. (Politico)