Senate Majority Releases Committee Assignments.  The Senate DFL majority has released its committee assignments for the upcoming biennium.  There's a lot of experience and balance and it will be interesting to see how this works dynamically.  The Senate Republicans have not released their assignments yet, but they will likely be forthcoming shortly.  The House, with twice the members and a few more standing committees, have a slightly more complicated task when it comes to doling out committee assignments and that process usually takes a little longer.

Here are the Senate DFL committee assignments for the education-related committees:

Senate E-12 Funding Division:

Chair Wiger, Charles W.
Vice Chair Johnson, Alice M.
Bonoff, Terri E.
Dahle, Kevin L.
Halvorson Wiklund, Melissa
Hoffman, John
Jensen, Vicki
Kent, Susan
Saxhaug, Tom
Stumpf, LeRoy A.
Torres Ray, Patricia

Senate Education Policy Committee

Chair Torres Ray, Patricia
Vice Chair Dahle, Kevin L.
Carlson, Jim
Clausen, Greg
Franzen, Melisa
Halvorson Wiklund, Melissa
Johnson, Alice M.
Kent, Susan
Wiger, Charles W.


At SEE, we also follow the Tax Committees closely and here are the rosters of the majority caucus members on those two committees:

Senate Tax Committee 

Chair Skoe, Rod 
Vice Chair Rest, Ann H.
Bakk, Thomas M.
Dziedzic, Kari
Eaton, Chris A.
Koenen, Lyle
Marty, John 
Reinert, Roger J.

Senate Tax Reform Committee

Chair Rest, Ann H.
Vice Chair Koenen, Lyle
Dziedzic, Kari
Eaton, Chris A.
Skoe, Rod 


I will post more committee assignments as they become available.

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