Swearing-in ceremony. Winona Senator Jeremy Miller, a Republican, and Bobby Joe Champion, a Minneapolis Democrat, raise their right hands to accept roles as co-presiding officers of the state Senate. The partnership was a negotiated bipartisan response to address the fact that neither Democrats nor Republicans has a majority. Meanwhile, the House is gridlocked in a power struggle because of a similar numerical split.
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