Lynch to Serve on Senate Re-Organization Team

11/11/2006

Senator-elect Ann Lynch (DFL-Rochester) has been selected to serve on the Senate’s re-organization team that will decide committees and membership in the Minnesota Senate for the 2007 session. The 14-member committee will consist of 11 current senators and the three newly elected members.

“With 14 new members in the Senate DFL caucus their interests need to be represented on the re-organization committee,” newly-elected Senate Majority Leader Larry Pogemiller (DFL-Minneapolis) said. “I value their input.”

The Senate re-designs its committee structure after each-four-year election. Currently, there are 22 finance and policy committees that hear and decide on bills each legislative session.

Lynch said she is honored to be chosen for this important task.

“The committees we develop and the members named to these committees will decide how Minnesota collects taxes and then how this money is responsibly spent on our education, health care, court and prison systems, roads and bridges, and the environment,” she said. “Important policy decisions will also be made in each of these areas. I am pleased to be a part of bringing people together to move Minnesota forward.”

The Senate Majority leader, Assistant Majority Leader, Senate President and Senate Finance Committee chair are also part of the re-organization team. The group will meet in the coming weeks.