{"id":2684,"date":"2025-02-27T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:19:06","slug":"african-americans-lead-both-legislative-chambers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2025\/02\/27\/african-americans-lead-both-legislative-chambers\/","title":{"rendered":"African Americans lead both legislative chambers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.mn.gov\/members\/membersR.asp?id=Rep_Jeff_Backer\">A&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.mn.gov\/hinfo\/leginfo\/PowerSharingResolution(Signed).pdf\">power-sharing agreement<\/a>&nbsp;between Republican and DFL leaders last month spelled out how the two parties would operate for the next two years with or without a membership tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.mn.gov\/members\/membersR.asp?id=Rep_Lisa_Demuth\">Rep. Lisa Demuth<\/a>&nbsp;(R-Cold Spring) was elected speaker of the House for the biennium. The first Black person to hold the position, she prevailed in her selection over House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) by a 67-65 party-line vote. Demuth\u2019s election&nbsp; to Speaker of the House &nbsp;means both legislative chambers are Black led. Senator Bobby Joe Champion is President of the Minnesota Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For at least the next month or so, Republicans will hold the speakership and the gavels for all 26 House committees. All but one committee will have a one-vote Republican advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee will continue to be chaired by a Republican and have a 5-3 Republican majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, if the House returns to a 67-67 tie following a March 11 special election in House District 40B, new rules will come in to play. If that\u2019s the case, then all committees except fraud prevention will be evenly divided by party and each will have a co-chair and a co-vice chair from each party. It would be up to co-chairs to determine rules on how to share power in their committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And no matter what happens in the District 40B special election, this fraud committee arrangement will remain through 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking forward into the spring, House membership on conference committees will be evenly divided by party. In the past, House speakers appointed all conference committee members and decided how many came from each party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a Republican wins the March 11 special election, then the next two years will look like they did when House committees assumed a regular schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: &nbsp;Session Daily&nbsp;writers Tim Walker and Rob Hubbard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;power-sharing agreement&nbsp;between Republican and DFL leaders last month spelled out how the two parties would operate for the next two years with or without a membership tie. Rep. Lisa Demuth&nbsp;(R-Cold Spring) was elected speaker of the House for the biennium. The first Black person to hold the position, she prevailed in her selection over House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1699,1700,1698],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dfl-brooklyn-park","tag-house-fraud-prevention","tag-rep-lisa-demuth","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}