1:06
The North Dakota House has passed a bill aimed at preventing NDSU from passing through federal grant money to Planned Parenthood.
The money is used to train teachers in sex education.
The bill as amended would penalize NDSU $2.8 million if it continues its partnership with Planned Parenthood.
Opponents said this sends a dangerous signal to anyone who may want to come to one of North Dakota s colleges or universities for research. They re going to see the writing on the wall that any research they do, if they upset someone in this chamber, they can come under attack, said House Minority Leader Joshua Boschee (D-Fargo).
2:01
The state House of Representatives has voted to expel Dickinson Republican Representative Luke Simons because of sexual harassment.
The vote was 69 to 25. It needed a two-thirds vote, or 63, to pass.
Simons has been accused of inappropriate comments made toward female colleagues and interns. This is not about someone occasionally using coarse language, or saying something that was misconstrued, said House Majority Leader Chet Pollert (R-Carrington), one of the authors of the expulsion resolution. This is about a pattern of inappropriate behavior, and about someone who was given multiple chances to avoid being in this situation.
Pollert told the House he had met with Simons several times to counsel him about hiks behavior.
1:14
The House has put the brakes on a bill to raise the speed limits on the Interstate highways to 80 miles an hour.
The bill says the speeds would be raised if and when the Department of Transportation determines the interstates can support that speed. Another section of the bill would have set a minimum 40 miles per hour speed on those highways.
The bill was split into two sections one on the higher limit, one on the minimum.
Rep. Greg Westlind (R-Cando) argued against the higher speed limit, even though he admitted he sets his cruise control to 82 miles an hour on the Interstates.