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• Ritchie is sued over voter-registration records
  A group says that updates to Minnesota's registration system are lacking and that '08 vote totals exceed voters in the system by 406,000.
  May 28, 2009
• Legislature: It's over -- No deal
  Working to a truly bitter end, the Minnesota Legislature adjourned at midnight Monday, following a final gesture of defiance toward Gov. Tim Pawlenty, as the DFL-led House and Senate passed a massive $2.7 billion bill that would wipe out the state's deficit through a $1 billion tax increase and a one-time shift.
  May 19, 2009
• House sustains Pawlenty veto of health care program
  A DFL effort to override the governor's line-item veto of $381 million in 2010 funding for the program for childless adults fell three votes short tonight. Meanwhile, Monday's deadline for legislative adjournment is looming.
  May 17, 2009
• Pawlenty offers spending cut, accounting shift
  In a closed-door meeting with top legislators on Saturday morning, Gov. Tim Pawlenty offered to slice another $1.2 billion from the state spending and adopt a $1.8 billion accounting shift proposed by the House as a way to close the state's budget gap and end the session on time.
  May 16, 2009
• Legislature: Stalled near the finish line
  As DFL lawmakers prepare for a possible special session, Pawlenty's offer to meet them halfway after his veto of their bill gets no takers.
  May 12, 2009
• Gov. Pawlenty puts out alternative to $1 billion tax increase
  In what he said was "the spirit of compromise," Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Monday put out his own alternative to a $1 billion tax increase he's vetoed that would balance the state's budget and close out the session.
  May 11, 2009
• DFLers take aim at Pawlenty opposition to tax increases
  As the May 18 adjournment of an exceptionally tense, high-stakes session looms, the DFLers who control the Minnesota House and Senate will try this week to mount a counteroffensive against the governor.
  May 11, 2009
• Friday: DFLers bet on $1 billion tax increase
  The proposal won House and Senate approval, but Pawlenty vowed to reject it quickly.
  May 9, 2009
• DFL rams through a tax bill - of blanks
  Republicans responded to the work-in-progress bill with harsh criticism.
  May 7, 2009
• Franken's in limbo as the weeks grind on
  He's got the lead, but all he can do is study issues, talk policy and raise money to pay his recount bills.
  May 3, 2009

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