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Inside the Minnesota Senate’s journaling office: how votes and amendments are recorded
Summary
Staff from the Minnesota Senate journaling office described how the two-person team compiles daily and session journals, checks grammar and vote records, works late hours during session and why those journals matter for public transparency.
The Minnesota Senate’s official journaling office compiles the daily and session journals that record votes, amendments and other formal actions, staff said in a recorded conversation about their work. Matt Hanson, one half of the two-person team that runs the office, said the job requires "flexibility and adaptability" and called it rewarding.
The office produces a journal every day the Senate is in session and a compiled set after the session ends. "We wait word for word, every comma, every period," a journaling office staff member said, describing the careful line-by-line review…
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