The eighty-fifth

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first convened on January 3, 2007. The 67 members of the

Minnesota Senate The Minnesota Senate is the upper house of the Minnesota Legislature, Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. At 67 members, half as many as the Minnesota House of Representatives, it is the largest upper house of any State legislature (Unite ...

and the 134 members of the

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were all elected during the General Election on November 7, 2006.

Sessions

The legislature met in regular session beginning January 3, 2007 and ending May 21, 2007. A bill passed on February 22 required the state to generate a significant amount of its energy needs from renewable sources.

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A special session was convened September 11, 2007 to pass legislature relating to floods in southeast Minnesota and the

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."Membership changes" section, below.''

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

;President of the Senate : James Metzen (DFL-South St. Paul) ;Senate Majority Leader : Lawrence Pogemiller (DFL-Minneapolis) ;Senate Minority Leader :

David Senjem David Howard Senjem ( ; born December 20, 1942) is an American politician currently serving on the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners. He is a former member of the Minnesota Senate, serving in that body from 2003 to 2023. He led the Republi ...

(R-Rochester)

House of Representatives

;Speaker of the House :

Margaret Anderson Kelliher Margaret Anderson Kelliher (born March 11, 1968) is an American politician, City Operations Officer for the City of Minneapolis, former Director of the Minneapolis Department of Public Works, former Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Tra ...

(DFL-Minneapolis) ;House Majority Leader : Anthony Sertich (DFL-Chisholm) ;House Minority Leader :

Marty Seifert Martin John "Marty" Seifert (born April 23, 1972) is a former Republican Minority Leader and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He represented District 21A, a predominantly rural district in southwestern Minnesota that in ...

(R-Marshall)

Members

Senate

House of Representatives

Membership changes

Senate

House of Representatives

Notes

External links

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