Late Night Standup Comedy In MN House

More at http://www.theuptake.org. Watch out Conan O'Brien, David Letterman and other late night comedians. The Minnesota House of Representatives is trying to provide you competition. At 11:30 last night when most Minnesotans have turned off the TV and gone to bed, the House put on its own version of stand-up comedy.

It all began with a proposal to not pay lawmakers expenses (per diem) during any special session. The idea being that would be an incentive to finish all the work during the regular session which is scheduled to finish next month.

Instead of voting down the proposal, Rep Rod Hamilton (R) Mountain Lake moved to amend it to require Twin Cities metro areas legislators to provide housing, food, laundry and entertainment for non-metro area legislators.

The amendment touched off a round of comedy and eventually led to original proposal being withdrawn. In other words, the proposal to eliminate special session per diem pay made by Rep. Joyce Peppin (R) of Rogers was literally laughed off the House floor.

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[Jaaab]

Why is everyone so angry about this? 5 minutes of fun politics. This is why I much prefer to watch the British House of Commons working at it rather than the US House because of the lively debates, opposed to boring, cold, and lifeless discussions that are now the US House and Senate. Good for the MN House!

[gcso401]

This is another good reason why nothing real gets done in minnesota

[MrQung]

jäib

[cjm608]

@newmanfrigan your friggen AWESOME!

[CrimsonEmpire]

That is such a dumb amendment. I would hate to be required to house somebody for a while. Though this looks like fun, I hope this doesn't get passed.

[jtgaslin61]

I guess it is only in Minnesota where both parties from both sides of the isle can actually have a little fun, No why can the people in Washington do that?

[nakedBison69]

we know that newmanfrigan is a Dummycrat, so addicted he is to failing publicly. newmanfrigan sucks at what he does

[nakedBison69]

wethepeople2013 is a fucking idiot

[nakedBison69]

Jaaab is boring, cold, and lifeless

[VesusSheist]

I'm sure they can find some democrats to blame for this nonsense.

[alowlyapprentice]

OMG, after all that she withdrew the amendment to the amendment. I was actually starting to get all warm and fuzzy about it. DAMNED politicians.