Chaos in the Capitol

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Business isn’t done yet for Minnesota lawmakers even though the session ended at midnight.

That thanks to a veto by the governor.

Governor Dayton has vetoed an education budget bill and that means a special session is on the way.

Local state lawmakers say the session ended this morning in shouts and confusion.

Minutes before midnight, it was a chaotic scene in St. Paul at the 2015 legislative session.

Lawmakers say they didn’t get the things done that they needed to, and this upcoming special session won’t be welcomed.

Minnesota Senator Bill Ingebrigtsen said, “People are going to be very angry about that, and they should. We’ve been there for five months I think since January 6th, there’s no reason why we can’t get our work done.”

The minority in the house says there was a lack of bipartisanship by Republicans.

State Representative Paul Marquart said,”They didn’t get a tax bill or a transportation bill you got to compromise, and no matter what you’re doing, and it just didn’t come to a compromise.”

State Representative Ben Lien said,”1.8 billion dollar surplus, the fact they only put 8 million into the broad band development…I just think that there was a lot of missed opportunity that really we could of seized upon and pushed our state even further.”

Governor Dayton had problems himself.

He believes more money from the states $2 billion surplus needs to be added to the $400 million public school budget for his Pre–K proposal.

Republicans still disagree.

“We’ve had school administrators call and say we don’t even have the room for an additional class of 4-year-olds, so it kind of tells us something that were not quite prepared for 4-year-olds,” said Senator Ingebrigtsen.

Now we’ll just have to wait and see if lawmakers can come together and get a deal done.

So when will the session begin?

No date has been set.