House passes bonding bill

They passed it overwhelmingly. And it's a big one: the biggest ever under House Republican leadership. Now the bill will go to conference, where there probably won't be a huge disagreement, since the House and Senate are rather close together in terms of total amounts.

The House started to debate the State Government Finance bill today as well, but ran out of time talking about a plan by Republican Tom Emmer (yes, that Tom Emmer) to ban all gambling in the state. Why? Who knows.