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Norm Coleman Ordered To Pay Al Franken $95K By Minnesota Court
Jun 10th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Norm Coleman must pay Democrat Al Franken $94,783 to cover court costs for his appeal of Minnesota Senate election results. A Ramsey County court administrator entered the judgment Wednesday...
Election Experts Agree: Norm Coleman Doesn't Have A Prayer
Jun 6th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Seven months after Minnesota's Senate election, the state's highest court hasn't reached a decision but election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn't have a prayer.
Fox News Accuses Norm Coleman Of Judicial Activism
Jun 1st, 2009 - The Huffington Post
On Monday, Fox News Reporter Steve Brown was asked to analyze just where the Minnesota Senate recount stood as both sides brought their cases before the state Supreme Court...
Tim Kaine to Tim Pawlenty: Drop Norm Coleman
May 19th, 2009 - POLITICO
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine urged Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday to call on fellow Republican Norm Coleman to drop his bid for the contested Minnesota Senate seat.
State House votes down measure on new nuke construction
Apr 30th, 2009 - bizjournals
The Minnesota House of Representatives on Thursday voted down an amendment that would have lifted a ban on new construction of nuclear power plants in the state. The amendment was rejected in a house floor vote...

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Minnesota Senate Recount Update
More at www.theuptake.org. Lawyers for Norm Coleman and Al Franken dueled in Minnesota while the state canvassing board reset the race to zero-zero and the recount begins.
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Minnesota Senate Recount: Day 1
Election officials, recount observers from the Coleman and Franken campaigns, as well as members of the media and public, gathered at the Election Warehouse in Minneapolis for the first day of the US Senate recount.
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Franken: "Proud to Stand Before You as the Next Senator from Minnesota"
Al Franken declares victory in Minnesota Senate race, January 5, 2009

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The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House district (e.g. Senate district 32 contains House districts 32A and 32B). The Minnesota Constitution forbids a House district to be within more than one Senate district. Before the 1960s, Senators were apportioned by county, resulting in the underrepresentation of those in cities. From statehood through 1972 the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota served as President of the Senate. In 1972 the voters approved a constitutional amendment that provided for the senate to elect its own president from among its members effective January 1973. Functionally, the leadership in the Senate is vested in the Majority Leader.