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84th Minnesota Legislature

Eighty-fourth Minnesota Legislature
83rd Minnesota Legislature 85th Minnesota Legislature
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Overview
Jurisdiction Minnesota, United States
Meeting place Minnesota State Capitol
Term January 4, 2005 (2005-01-04) – January 3, 2007 (2007-01-03)
Election 2004 General Election
Website www.leg.state.mn.us
Minnesota State Senate
Members 67 Senators
President James Metzen
Majority Leader Dean Johnson
Minority Leader Dick Day
Party control Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Minnesota House of Representatives
Members 134 Representatives
Speaker Steve Sviggum
Majority Leader Erik Paulsen
Minority Leader Matt Entenza
Party control Republican Party

The eighty-fourth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 4, 2005. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the General Election on November 5, 2002, while the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the General Election on November 2, 2004.

The legislature met in a regular session from January 4, 2005 to May 23, 2005. It ended without a passage of an overall budget, and a special session was opened May 24, 2005. No overall budget passed by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, and much of the state government shut down for the first time in history, though some essential services remained in operation, and some departments received funding in legislation. On July 9, 2005, a budget was agreed upon, and the special session ended a few days later on July 13, 2005.

A continuation of the regular session was held between March 1, 2006 and May 21, 2006.


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