DFL pushes back in mini-standoff

05/24/2007

By Conrad Defiebre,
Star Tribune
Last update: May 24, 2007


Major legislation is sometimes delivered to the governor's desk within a few hours of its passage, and usually within a day or two. So why is Gov. Tim Pawlenty left waiting more than a week to see three big end-of-session bills, one of which he has threatened to veto?

Politeness or pressure, depending on whom you ask.

DFL House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher said it's to give the Republican governor all the time he needs to decide the bills' fates. "I don't want to drop everything on him at once," she said Thursday. "His staff often told us they didn't have time to know what was in the bills."

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