The Daily Digest (Sunday sales, IRS, minimum wage)
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Minnesota:
What's at stake in the debate over "federal tax conformity?" (MPR News)
Supporters of Sunday liquor sales are hedging their bets by giving the Legislature a variety of options to consider. (MPR News)
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There's an intra-caucus struggle within the Senate DFL over whether to repeal business sales taxes passed last session. Members of the Senate Commerce Committee held an informational hearing on bills to eliminate taxes. (MPR News)
PoliGraph looked at a handful of claims Republicans are making about Sen. Al Franken's role in the IRS scandal, and found them to be false. (MPR News)
House leaders attempted to compromise with the Senate on a minimum wage bill. (Pioneer Press)
The Republican Party of Minnesota has endorsed a Somali-American candidate for the first time. (MPR News)
The Minneapolis City Council says no to the "shallow tunnel" plan for the Southwest LRT line. (MPR News)
A bill at the Capitol would give veterans the legal right to get Veterans Day off work (AP via Pioneer Press)
Washington:
The Obama administration said that people can keep outdated health care policies for another two years. (The New York Times)
Democratic Reps. Collin Peterson and Rick Nolan voted to delay a penalty for people who don't have health insurance. (The Hill)
Secretary of State John Kerry tried and failed to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Ukranian and Russian officials Wednesday. (The New York Times)
Lois Lerner, the former IRS official who left her post after the agency's Inspector General found that IRS employees gave extra scrutiny to certain political groups, invoked the 5th during a Congressional hearing. (Politico)
Senate Democrats joined Republicans in blocking an Obama administration nominee for head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. (The Washington Post)