Some Democrats want lawmakers back at the State Capitol to resurrect a bonding bill that died in the closing hours of the special session at the end of May — but Republicans are not interested. Minneapolis Democrat Frank Hornstein, chair of the House Transportation Committee argues, “There are urgent issues that need to be addressed in terms of our infrastructure, and that’s what the bonding bill does.”
But Rochester Republican Dave Senjem, who chairs the Senate Capital Investment Committee says, “We had a chance to negotiate a bill in the last week of session. We weren’t able to do that and, at this point in time, I think it’s just best to wait to 2020.” Senjem adds during the summer months it would be “very difficult I think to get the people together, to get the bill together…. Not doing the tours would make it exceedingly difficult I think to put a bill together that’s meritorious.”