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Legislative Time Capsule - 85th Legislature (2007-2008)

Session Dates (All Sessions)

  Convened Adjourned Calendar Days Legislative Days - House Legislative Days - Senate
2007
1/3/2007 5/21/2007 139 75 75
2007 1st Special Session
To provide disaster relief for the flooded counties of Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona; to address the 35W bridge collapse; and for other disaster relief. 		9/11/2007 9/11/2007 1 1 1
2008
2/12/2008 5/18/2008 97 44 44

Legislation (All Sessions)

  House - Bills Introduced Senate - Bills Introduced Laws Resolutions
2007 2552 Search 2363 Search 138   Search 0
2007 1st Special Session 3 Search 3 Search 2   Search 0
2008 1704 Search 1532 Search 192   Search 0

Session Resources

Vetoes (All Sessions)

  Full Bills Vetoed
(including pockets)		 Pocket Vetoes Bills with Line Item Vetoes [# of lines vetoed] TOTAL
Full Bills Vetoed + Lines Vetoed		 TOTAL
Full Bills Vetoed + Bills with Lines Vetoed
2007 12 0 8   [33] 45 20
2007 1st Special Session 0 0 0   [0] 0 0
2008 32 5 2   [56] 88 34

Leadership         

Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher  (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
House Majority Leader Anthony Sertich  (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
House Minority Leader Marty Seifert  (Republican)
President of the Senate James P. Metzen  (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
Senate Majority Leader Lawrence J. Pogemiller  (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
Senate Minority Leader David H. Senjem  (Republican)

Officers

Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives Albin A. Mathiowetz
House Sergeant-at-Arms Sandra Dicke
Secretary of the Senate Patrick E. Flahaven
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Sven K. Lindquist

Election Results

- Selected election results are available at this page.

Party Control of the House of Representatives (All Sessions)

Date Event Note Total Seats C/R/IR L/DFL Other Margin
1/3/2007 Convenes [Total seats possible = 134] 134 49 85 0 36
7/17/2007 Resignation Rep. Steve Sviggum (R) resigned from District 28B to become Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. 133 48 85 0 37
8/16/2007 Special election Steve Drazkowski (R) won a special election in District 28B on August 7, 2007. He was sworn in on August 16, 2007. 134 49 85 0 36
12/1/2007 Party/Caucus change Rep. Mark Olson (16B) changed from Republican to independent Republican. 134 48 85 1 36
* Rep. Mark Olson was reelected as a Republican in the November 2006 election. However, on December 7, 2006 the Republican caucus suspended him. He then began calling himself an "independent" Republican in 2007. In early December 2007 the Republican members voted to expel him from their caucus. He is included in the count of Republicans for the margin calculation.
2/12/2008 Convenes [Total seats possible = 134] 134 49 85 0 36
C=Conservative  R=Republican  IR=Independent Republican  L=Liberal  DFL=Democratic-Farmer-Labor

Party Control of the Senate (All Sessions)

Date Event Note Total Seats C/R/IR L/DFL Other Margin
1/3/2007 Convenes [Total seats possible = 67] 67 23 44 0 21
1/1/2008 Resignation Sen. Tom Neuville (R, 25) resigned because he was appointed as a Third Judicial District trial court judge. The date is uncertain. 66 22 44 0 22
1/22/2008 Special election Kevin Dahle (DFL) won the special election for a Senate seat in District 25 on January 3, 2008. He was sworn in on January 22, 2008. 67 22 45 0 23
2/12/2008 Convenes [Total seats possible = 67] 67 22 45 0 23
7/28/2008 Resignation Sen. Betsy Wergin (R, 16) resigned effective July 28, 2008. She was appointed to the Public Utilities Commission. 66 21 45 0 24
11/5/2008 Resignation Sen. Dan Larson (DFL, 63) resigned to be a lobbyist. 65 21 44 0 23
12/5/2008 Special election Lisa A. Fobbe (DFL) for District 16 and Ken Kelash (DFL) for District 63 are elected in a special election on November 4, 2008. They were sworn in on December 5, 2008. 67 21 46 0 25
C=Conservative  R=Republican  IR=Independent Republican  L=Liberal  DFL=Democratic-Farmer-Labor

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