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David Colburn
ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s Clean Car Rules may have survived a threatened budget freeze from Senate Republicans, but GOP leaders made it clear that the agency’s commissioner, Laura Bishop, won’t be around to see them implemented.
Bishop is out, resigning on Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka informed Gov. Tim Walz that her appointment to the position, made in January 2019, would not be confirmed, even though the confirmation hearing itself had not yet taken place.
The special legislative session called to finalize the state’s budget for the next biennium was expected to end last Friday. However, Senate Republicans voted to remain in session and scheduled confirmation hearings for numerous Walz appointees, including Bishop. The move drew a quick rebuke from Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury.
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Republicans who control the Minnesota Senate signaled Friday that they may fire one or more of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz s Cabinet commissioners, injecting drama into a special session that many lawmakers thought was essentially over.
GOP Sen. Michelle Benson, of Ham Lake, wouldn t name the commissioners who might be in danger when pressed by Democratic senators. But she said Republicans plan to âremain vigilant and attentive to the governor s appointments when the Senate reconvenes Tuesday. She didn t say how long the Senate might remain in special session.
That drew an angry response from the few Democratic senators present for what most expected to a brief, routine meeting. They said they were upset by the lack of transparency.
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