At Minnesota Public Radio's Capitol View blog, Tim Pugmire reports in Mute button’ days are numbered in MN House:
Let the shouting resume.
A controversial mute button that Republicans had installed in the Minnesota House chamber will disappear when the new DFL majority takes charge in January.
“I will be asking for the mute button to be disconnected,” said speaker-designate Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park. . . .
Hortman said her request for the button’s removal will have to wait until she is officially elected as speaker.
“I don’t have the power to ask for that to be done right now,” she said. “But as soon as I have the power, I will ask for that to be done.”
Yesterday, Bluestem remembered in our post, Guy who ruled Daudt's mute button was in order now opposes restrictions on who can talk, that Preston Republican Greg Davids had approved the use of the button while serving as acting Speaker.
It's good to see Speaker-elect Hortman decide to remove the mute button.
Earlier Bluestem posts about legislative reform:
- An informal history: Rep. Pelowski’s presentation on reforming Minnesota’s legislative process
- No more "dark of night" mystery bill votes in MN House? Pelowski reforms might make it so
- MN House Speaker-elect Hortman intends to make "Omnibus Prime" bills a thing of the past
- What's coming, what's passing away, and what's enduring in Minnesota House committees
Photo: Speaker-elect Melissa Hortman.
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