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The House passed a transportation budget bill Sunday that would provide billions of dollars for statewide road maintenance projects over the next two years and includes one-time funds toward a new light-rail line.
Lawmakers moved the state toward a set of stepped-up renewable energy standards on Tuesday after the House passed an omnibus energy policy bill 70-63 following a contentious six-hour debate.
The Department of Transportation would be directed to distribute the surplus steel remains of the collapsed Interstate 35W bridge to interested survivors, research and historic preservation groups, under a bill the House passed 129-0 on Monday.
The most striking thing about the omnibus transportation financing package unveiled Friday before the House Transportation Finance Committee might be what isn’t in it.
Undocumented immigrants would be able to obtain a Minnesota driver’s license under legislation that continued its advance Thursday toward the House floor.
Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights) says he’s tired of the federal government dragging its feet on plans to build a long-term repository for highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. He wants Minnesota to start applying pressure.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking to give agricultural landowners more rights under state eminent domain laws when their land is condemned for construction of a high-voltage electrical transmission line.
Developing a world-class transportation system in Minnesota won’t come cheap.
Lawmakers and residents who live in the path of proposed flight patterns from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport questioned the director of the Metropolitan Airports Commission Tuesday during an informational meeting of the House Transportation Policy Committee.
Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Mpls) wants lawmakers and regulators to take a deeper look at environmental and regulatory issues related to oil pipelines that cross the state.