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Brett Neely

The Daily Digest: Lawmakers set sights on MNsure

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In Minnesota

Lawmakers are thinking about requiring MNsure to be more accountable to them. (MPR News)

Improving rural healthcare is also on the agenda the state Capitol. (AP via MPR News)

Minnesota taxpayers could see $24 million in overall tax relief under Gov. Mark Dayton’s recent budget proposal, a more precisely crafted plan compared with past budget blueprints. (Star Tribune)

Dayton is calling for a $35 million boost in funding for mental health services throughout the state — a plan mental health advocacy groups are applauding. (MPR News)

Dayton's latest education budget proposal makes clear that he believes the best way to close Minnesota's achievement gap is to focus on young students and struggling learners. (Pioneer Press)

The PoliGraph weighs some of Dayton's claims about transportation funding. (MPR News)

National Politics

President Obama will release his budget today but no one expects Congress to pass it. (USA Today)

A major feature of that DOA budget: A mandatory 14 percent tax on corporate profits now stashed abroad — to fix roads, bridges and other infrastructure. (Politico)

The budget also proposes to boost defense spending, although it's unclear whether the GOP and White House can agree on how to come with the money to pay for an increase. (Washington Post)

Mitt Romney won't run for President for a third time and now all of the major potential Republican presidential candidates are scrambling for his donors. (New York Times)

Speaking of campaign finance: What happens when you lose and have thousands of dollars in debts to repay? (MinnPost)

Five of Minnesota's ten members of Congress sit on either the House or Senate Agriculture Committee. Is that too many, even for a farm state? (Star Tribune)

Immigration is really tying congressional Republicans in knots. (MPR News)

2nd District Rep. John Kline is one of three powerful committee chairmen who will lead a working group to develop an alternative to Obamacare, the House Republicans’ most serious attempt thus far to develop their health care reform package. (Politico)