How to follow the Legislature

How to follow the Minnesota Legislature online:

• Legislative website: www.leg.state.mn.us

• Find out who represents you: tinyurl.com/MNLegWho

• Calendar for all legislative meetings: tinyurl.com/MNLegCal

• Follow activity on bills: tinyurl.com/MNLegBills

• Bill signings and vetoes: tinyurl.com/MNBillGov

• House Public Information Office: tinyurl.com/MNHouseInfo

• Ways to follow committees and other legislative activity: tinyurl.com/MNLegLists

• Legislative television and Webcast schedules, stations and audio and video archives as well as Session Daily stories about the House: www.leg.state.mn.us, click on “multimedia”

• Summaries and other information about bills and government issues: tinyurl.com/MNHouseResearch andtinyurl.com/MNSenateResearch

• Legislative background from Legislative Reference Library: www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl

• Mobile devices may automatically call up a mobile legislative site (www.leg.state.mn.us), but if not, there is mobile link at the top of the page

• Self-updated list of Minnesota political, government and media tweeters: mnpoltwitter.pbworks.com

• Tweets compiled from politicians, press and others: tweetmn.com

• Forum Communications Minnesota Capitol Bureau: Blog, capitolchat.areavoices.com; Twitter, @CapitolChatter; Facebook, www.facebook.com/CapitolChatter

Traditional resources

• Printed directories with legislators, committee and other information will be available in House Public Information Office and Senate secretary’s office in February. Until then, directories are on the House and Senate Web sites (www.leg.state.mn.us)

• The Senate and House staff telephones to answer questions about the process of passing bills, the status of legislation and other questions. The Senate numbers are (651) 651-296-0504 and (888) 234-1112. To contact the House, call (651) 296-2146 or (800) 657-3550.

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