1.1Senator Draheim moved to amend Senate Resolution No. 15 as follows (...):
1.2Page 1, delete lines 5 to 24 and insert:
1.3"WHEREAS, a Senate resolution expressing the Minnesota Senate's condemnation of
1.4the hyper-partisanship, lax government oversight, and poor fiscal management that has led
1.5to a massive budget deficit in future years and allowed hundreds of millions of taxpayer
1.6dollars to be lost to fraud; and
1.7WHEREAS just two years ago, the state of Minnesota had a record surplus of over $18
1.8billion dollars; and
1.9WHEREAS on top of increasing government spending by nearly 40 percent, hard working
1.10Minnesotans saw their sales or gas tax increase; and
1.11WHEREAS there has been evidence for years of fraud in state government programs
1.12yet few in the Walz administration took this evidence seriously; and
1.13WHEREAS this lax oversight has caused nearly $6 million of the people's money being
1.14lost to fraud; and
1.15WHEREAS the state of Minnesota now faces a nearly $6 billion dollar deficit in future
1.16years; and
1.17WHEREAS there was a bipartisan, cooperative path forward that would have prevented
1.18fraud and kept our state on sound fiscal footing; and NOW, THEREFORE,
1.19BE IT RESOLVED that the Minnesota State Senate condemns fiscal mismanagement
1.20of government programs, sky-rocketing government funding, and tax increases that hurt
1.21low-income Minnesotans the hardest.
1.22BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is directed to prepare a
1.23copy of this resolution, to be authenticated by his signature and that of the Chair of the
1.24Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and transmit to Governor Walz."
1.25Page 2, delete lines 1 to 15
1.26Amend the title accordingly
1.27The motion prevailed. #did not prevail. So the amendment was #not adopted.