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Representative Rod Hamilton with the latest news from the State Capitol…
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(Posted: 2/14/2013)
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Reaction to the governor's state-of-the-state address, delivered this week…
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(Posted: 2/8/2013)
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Capitol Update: Dairy Day at the Capitol and a special award for Representative Hamilton…
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(Posted: 1/31/2013)
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Representative Rod Hamlton offers his thoughts on Governor Dayton's proposed budget, which was released this week.
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(Posted: 1/24/2013)
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So much for working together.
A week after pledging to work with minority Republicans, the House Rules Committee voted against an amendment by Representative Rod Hamilton that would have leveled the agriculture playing field in Minnesota.
Monday's committee vote fell strictly along party lines, and has jeopardized the chances that any ag appropriations bills would become law in the 2013 session.
The new DFL majority axed the Agriculture Finance Committee, and will direct all ag spending bills through the less-than-friendly Environment and Natural Resources Finance Committee, and its chair, Representative Jean Wagenius, Wagenius is the first Minneapolis representative to chair a committee that has the final say on ag-related issues.
The Rules Committee action left Representative Hamilton and his supporters wondering what ag initiatives - if any - will pass through Wagenius' committee this session.
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(Posted: 1/15/2013)
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State Representative Rod Hamilton used the opening day of the 2013 legislative sesison to voice his concerns over the future of Agriculture in Minnesota.
The new DFL majority decided to get rid of the Agriculture Finance Committee, and instead, will direct all ag-related through the Environment and Natural Resources Finance Committee.
Chair of that committee, Representative Jean Wagenius of Minneapolis, has a history of being less than supportive of family farms in Minnesota.
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(Posted: 1/9/2013)