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America's Unemployment Map

This fascinating map, created by LaToya Egwuekwe and available to view on YouTube, shows the decline of our economy through unemployment rates since January 2007.
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Below: Senator Ortman on the Senate floor, standing up for SF 509 - the 2011 Voter ID bill that was eventually vetoed by Governor Dayton.
On Thursday, March 11, the Senate discussed whether to send an oversized bonding bill to the Governor for his promised line-item vetoes. Senator Julianne Ortman suggests that the Legislature, rather than the Governor, cut the $1 billion bonding bill down to size. Read about the Julianne's proposal in a Star Tribune article by Lori Sturdevant here.

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Below: View the Senate Floor debate on YouTube below!
Below: Senator Julianne Ortman discusses the 2010 Bonding Bill on the Senate floor. The $1.2 billion dollar borrowing bill passed through the Senate on Tuesday, February 9.
Below: In the last week of the 2009 Legislative Session, Senator Julianne Ortman makes the case against the band-aid "lights-on bill" that would essentially let the Legislature off the hook for the job of getting the state's budget balanced and passed in the allotted time the Legislature has each year.