ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two new state senators, elected to fill vacancies, took their oaths at the Capitol. The official arrivals of Michael Holmstrom Jr., a Buffalo Republican, and Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger, a Woodbury Democrat, keeps the Democrats with a 34-33 majority.

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