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Votes Thursday as the House, on a 69-59 vote, preserved a measure to impose new restrictions on new teen drivers. Voting against the new restrictions were 22 Democrats and 37 Republicans. Voting for them were 59 Democrats and 10 Republicans.
DEMOCRATS VOTING AGAINST THE NEW RESTRICTIONS
Atkins (Inver Grove Heights); Bly (Northfield); Dill (Crane Lake); Doty (Royalton); Eken (Twin Valley); Hansen (South St. Paul); Hilstrom (Brooklyn Center); Juhnke (Willmar); Koenen (Clara City); Moe (Bemidji); Mullery (Minneapolis); Murphy, M. (Hermantown); Nelson (Brooklyn Park); Olin (Thief River Falls); Otremba (Long Prairie); Peterson, A. (Appleton); Rukavina (Virginia); Sailer (Park Rapids); Sertich (Chisholm); Solberg (Grand Rapids); Thao (St. Paul); Welti (Plainview)
DEMOCRATS VOTING FOR THE NEW RESTRICTIONS
Anzelc (Balsam Twp); Benson (Minnetonka); Bigham (Cottage Grove); Brown (Austin); Brynaert (Mankato); Bunn (Lake Elmo); Carlson (Crystal); Clark (Minneapolis); Davnie (Minneapolis); Dittrich (Champlin); Dominguez (Minneapolis); Faust (Mora); Fritz (Faribault); Gardner (Shoreview); Greiling (Roseville); Hausman (St. Paul); Haws (St. Cloud); Hilty (Finlayson); Hornstein (Minneapolis); Hortman (Brooklyn Park); Hosch (St. Joseph); Huntley (Duluth); Jaros (Duluth); Johnson (St. Paul); Kahn (Minneapolis); Kalin (Lindstrom); Kelliher (Minneapolis); Knuth (New Brighton); Laine (Columbia Heights); Lenczewski (Bloomington); Liebling (Rochester); Lieder (Crookston); Lillie (North St. Paul); Loeffler (Minneapolis); Madore (Apple Valley); Mahoney (St. Paul); Mariani (St. Paul); Marquart (Dilworth); Masin (Eagan); Morgan (Burnsville); Morrow (St. Peter); Murphy, E. (St. Paul); Norton (Rochester); Paymar (St. Paul); Pelowski (Winona); Peterson, S. (New Hope); Poppe (Austin); Ruud (Minnetonka); Scalze (Little Canada); Simon (St. Louis Park); Slawik (Maplewood); Slocum (Richfield); Swails (Woodbury); Tillberry (Fridley); Tschumper (La Crescent); Wagenius (Minneapolis); Ward (Brainerd); Winkler (Golden Valley); Wollschlager (Cannon Falls)
DEMOCRATS NOT VOTING
Kranz (Blaine); Lesch (St. Paul); Thissen (Minneapolis); Walker (Minneapolis)
REPUBLICANS VOTING AGAINST THE NEW RESTRICTIONS
Anderson, B. (Buffalo Twp); Anderson, S. (Plymouth); Brod (New Prague); Buesgens (Jordan); Cornish (Good Thunder); Dean (Dellwood); DeLaForest (Andover); Demmer (Hayfield); Dettmer (Forest Lake); Drazkowski (Wabasha); Eastlund (Isanti); Emmer (Delano); Erickson (Princeton); Finstad (Comfrey); Gunther (Fairmont); Hackbarth (Cedar); Hamilton (Mountain Lake); Heidgerken (Freeport); Holberg (Lakeville); Howes (Walker); Lanning (Moorhead); Magnus (Slayton); McFarlane (White Bear Lake); McNamara (Hastings); Nornes (Fergus Falls); Olson (Big Lake); Ozment (Rosemount); Peterson, N. (Bloomington); Ruth (Owatonna); Seifert (Marshall); Severson (Sauk Rapids); Shimanski (Silver Lake); Simpson (Perham); Smith (Mound); Urdahl (Grove City); Westrom (Elbow Lake); Zellers (Maple Grove)
REPUBLICANS VOTING FOR THE NEW RESTRICTIONS
Abeler (Anoka); Berns (Wayzata); Erhardt (Edina); Garofalo (Farmington); Gottwalt (St. Cloud); Hoppe (Chaska); Kohls (Victoria); Paulsen (Eden Prairie); Peppin (Rogers); Wardlow (Eagan)
REPUBLICANS NOT VOTING
Beard (Shakopee); Tingelstad (Andover)
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