Things Slooooowing Down.  The tax bill is on the House floor and there is a bit of a hubbub over whether the agreement signed by the Governor and legislative leadership precludes the members of the DFL caucus from offering amendments.  Whatever the text and intention of the agreement, members are offering amendments and while the amendments are all failing (and all will likely continue to fail), things are getting a little edgy.

All that said, it's a quarter-to-three and I couldn't resist posting a video of Gary "U.S." Bonds' hit from 1961, "Quarter to Three."