1997 Session Weekly
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Session Weekly Issue 4,
January 31, 1997
Features include: Speakers Pro Tem, Governor's Residence, State's Aging Workforce, Come to
the Capitol, Lottery Dollars, Legislative Highlights, New Member profiles and more. (Sorry, due
to technical difficulties Session Weekly #3 will not be available until a later date.)
Session Weekly Issue 8,
February 28, 1997
With a feature on the new Twins stadium proposal, the Capitol Forum Series: American Public
Opinion, the week's legislative highlights, New Member profiles and more.
Session Weekly Issue 9, March
7, 1997
With a feature on the Capitol Forum Series: U.S.-Japan Relations, an interview with former U.S.
Ambassador to Japan, Walter F. Mondale, A Closer Look: Welfare Reform, the week's legislative
highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 11,
March 21, 1997
With A Closer Look: Welfare Bill Update, a feature on the Capitol Forum Series: Education and
Business, New Member profiles, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 15,
April 18, 1997
With features on former Gov. Harold Stassen, Capitol monuments, and former U. S. Supreme
Court Justive Pierce Butler, bills signed by the Governor as of April 17, 1997, the week's
legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 16,
April 25, 1997
With features on Yellow Journalism, and Minnesota Hemp, a diagram of How a Bill Becomes
Law in Minnesota, bills signed by the Governor as of April 24, 1997, the week's legislative
highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 17,
May 2, 1997
With features on the proposed Twins Stadium: Video Gambling Option, Frank B. Kellogg, the
Pipestone National Monument, the new Fort Snelling map, the address by U.S. Senator Rod
Grams to the Legislature, an interview with Acting Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, bills
signed by the Governor as of May 1, 1997, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 18,
May 9, 1997
With features on the Claims Committee, Alternative medical licensing, Former Minnesota House
Speaker H.H. Dunn and his silver platter, bills signed by the Governor as of May 8, 1997, the
week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 19,
May 16, 1997
With features on Jury Selection, Snowmobile Safety, and the Stadium bill, bills signed by the
Governor as of May 15, 1997, the week's legislative highlights, and more.
Session Weekly Issue 20,
May 23, 1997
Session Weekly Issue 20 is the preliminary wrap-up for the 1997 Legislative Session. It covers
legislative highlights from agriculture to transportation, tracking of the bills passed by the
legislature and sent to the governor, plus bill introductions, and statistics on the 1997 Legislative
Session.
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