(MN) Budget deal reached; state employees will return to work

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Last update: July 9, 2005 at 9:17 AM

Budget deal reached; state employees will return to work
Brian Bakst
Associated Press
Published July 9, 2005

In the wee hours of this morning, Minnesota legislative leaders ended the state's partial government shutdown with the passage of a temporary spending plan and an agreement by state leaders on the outlines of a two-year budget.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty and legislative leaders emerged around 2 a.m. CDT from a nearly 16-hour bargaining session to announce the deal, which included the "lights on'' measure to send state employees back to work immediately. It will last through Thursday.

The plan, which restores funding for shuttered agencies at the previous year's levels, passed the House 106-9 and the Senate 53-1.

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1. Looks like they got some good stuff through

But again the bail out used is simultaneously one of the most regressive, AND the hardest to hate: a cigarette tax.

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2. Yeah, kinda wonder what would happen if everyone quit smoking n/t