The Daily Digest: Highway price tag becomes clearer
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In Minnesota
Gov. Mark Dayton’s transportation proposal became clearer as officials put price tags on individual projects and estimated the full list would cost $4.1 billion to $7.8 billion. (MPR News)
Legislation introduced in the Minnesota House and Senate would create a new nonpartisan state government office to analyze financial matters. (MPR News)
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The top Democrat in the Minnesota Senate says he wants to hold back a big chunk of the budget surplus as protection against a pending tax lawsuit against the state. (MPR News)
A Republican-allied national political consulting firm is demanding the Minnesota Republican Party pay back more than $200,000 in overdue bills related to last year's election. (Star Tribune)
A committee in the Minnesota Senate approved a bill that would allow police to keep data collected from automated license plate readers for up to 90 days. (MPR News)
National Politics
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his planned speech to Congress is not meant to signal any disrespect for President Obama, nor to insert political partisanship into the U.S.-Israel relationship. (Washington Post)
DFL Sen. Al Franken says he won’t attend Netanyahu's speech today, joining DFK members of Congress Keith Ellison and Betty McCollum and more than four dozen other Democrats who are boycotting the event. (MPR News)
Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. (New York Times)
Sen. Barbara Milkulski, the longest-serving woman in Congress, is retiring. She broke down many barriers during her nearly 40 years in office, including a ban on women wearing pants on the floor of the Senate. (Politico)
It's op-ed day for Minnesota lawmakers. DFL Sen. Amy Klobuchar has one calling for the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. (Politico)
2nd District Congressman John Kline joins Republican Reps. Paul Ryan and Fred Upton in offering a sketch of a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act if the Supreme Court strikes down some health care subsidies in an upcoming case. (Wall Street Journal)
The seven step recipe to concocting your own congressional crisis. (MinnPost)