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Brett Neely

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In Minnesota

Just a week into the 2015 legislative session, the state’s $1 billion budget surplus is getting gobbled up. (MPR News)

A plan by Senate Democrats to provide free education to students at the state's two-year community and technical colleges is getting plenty of pushback at the state Capitol. (MPR News)

Disagreements over space allocation are threatening expensive delays in the $273 million renovation of the Minnesota Capitol building. (MPR News)

The PoliGraph examines a claim made about Minnesota schools. (MPR News)

National Politics

House Republicans mounted a furious assault on four years of President Barack Obama’s immigration policies, satisfying hard-liners on the issue but prompting resistance among some moderates concerned that the party’s leadership has gone too far. (Politico)

The House also passed a bill undoing portions of the 2010 D0dd-Frank financial overhaul that Wall Street opposed. (New York Times)

President Obama will announce Thursday that he is directing federal agencies to give their employees up to six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child, a benefit he wants to extend to all American workers. (New York Times)

Not only do more Americans have health insurance, but the number struggling with medical costs has dropped since President Barack Obama's health care law expanded coverage, according to a new study. (AP via Pioneer Press)

Federal authorities arrested a Cincinnati man Wednesday in connection with an alleged ISIL-inspired plot to attack the U.S. Capitol. (USA Today)

The Secret Service has decided to remove four of its most senior officials while a fifth has decided to retire, the biggest management shake-up at the troubled agency since its director resigned in October after a string of security lapses. (Washington Post)