Amy Klobuchar

Obama Stands By Medical Device Tax, Despite Bipartisan Opposition

8:02 PM, Dec 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

President Barack Obama said that he stands by the medical device tax in Obamacare, despite growing bipartisan opposition:

"No," Obama told WCCO in an interview today, when asked whether he's changed his mind about the medical device tax. "And here's why: The health care bill is going to provide those medical device companies 30 million new customers. It's going to be great for business. And they're doing really well right now."

Both Democratic senators from Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, oppose the tax. WCCO, the station that conducted the interview, is a Minnesota station.

Kurt Bills

Bills Wins GOP Endorsement for Senate in Minnesota (Updated)

5:46 PM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

St. Cloud, Minn.
Kurt Bills, a high school economics teacher and state representative, is the enodrsed Republican for U.S. Senate in Minnesota. Bills won 64 percent of the delegates on the second ballot at the state convention Friday afternoon.

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Kurt Bills, Pete Hegseth

The Fight for the Minnesota GOP Senate Race

10:22 AM, May 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

St. Cloud, Minn.
Regardless of Ron Paul's recent decision not to contest upcoming primaries, his followers in Minnesota within the GOP will be here at the state Republican convention this weekend, hoping to claim their first substantial victory of the election cycle in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate.

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Rick Perry photo portrait, August 28, 2004

Perry Endorses Hegseth

5:02 PM, May 14, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Texas governor Rick Perry, a former Republican presidential candidate, has endorsed former Vets for Freedom director Pete Hegseth for Senate in Minnesota.

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Kurt Bills, Pete Hegseth

Races to Watch: Minnesota Senate Primary

A Ron Paul-backed economics teacher challenges a young war veteran.

4:21 PM, Apr 30, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Pete Hegseth, a 31-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran and the former director of Vets for Freedom, may be the GOP’s best chance to defeat Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota’s first-term Democratic senator. But he first has to win the endorsement of the state Republican party.

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Democrats Divided on Extending Bush Tax Cuts

Democrats Divided on Extending Bush Tax Cuts

Four Senate Democrats break ranks. Will more follow?

12:00 AM, Aug 4, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK and MICHAEL WARREN

On Tuesday, Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman called for a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year. "I’m hesitant to see taxes go up in the middle of a recession," Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, told reporters at the Capitol. "I think we ought to wait til maybe six months, maybe at least til the end of the next fiscal year" to raise taxes.

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