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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 April 2009 12:23 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 30 April 2009 12:23
From Hastings Star Gazette:
Republicans shouted down the Democratic speaker when she ruled that time had expired on a transportation debate, with two GOP amendments not yet heard.
“I don’t know if this is some type of flexing of the muscles or what,” an angry House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, said. “If you gag these two people from offering their amendments, who’s next … who are you going to gag next?”
It was the fiercest House debate since the late 1980s, veteran Rep. Bernie Lieder, DFL-Crookston, said.
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