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Brett Neely

The Daily Digest: Happy Monday edition

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In Minnesota 

The Republican takeover of the Minnesota House of Representatives will not significantly affect the Democratic-controlled Senate's agenda for the next legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk said. (Pioneer Press)

Apparently it's never too early to speculate about which DFLers could run for governor in 2018. (Star Tribune)

Minnesota's health insurance exchange says it has enrolled nearly 8,000 Minnesotans in health plans in the first week of open enrollment this fall. (AP via Pioneer Press)

Stewart Mills, the Republican who came within a whisker of unseating 8th District Rep. Rick Nolan, isn't ruling another bid for Congress. (Hibbing Daily Tribune)

National Politics

About 30,000 Minnesota immigrants will be eligible for work permits and temporary stays on deportation under President Obama’s new executive order, according to a new estimate by a think tank. (Star Tribune)

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is using her final weeks in office to rally against the Obama Administration's immigration policies. Over the weekend she traveled again to the U.S.-Mexico border with Iowa Rep. Steve King. (Star Tribune)

A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees. (AP via MPR News)

The House of Representatives filed a long-awaited lawsuit Friday, alleging that the Obama administration ignored key aspects of its health care reform law when implementing the sweeping new government program. (Politico)

The 2016 GOP presidential nomination race could be chaotic and divisive. (New York Times)