Minnesota ranking low

Minnesota Monitor has a breakdown of the latest Congressional Power Rankings, showing where legislators rank in power in Congress, Senate, and overall state delegation.

Minnesota is 38th out of 55 (Guam, D.C., the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico are included).

Minnesotans seem to think that's low, and I suppose it is. However, if I'm not mistaken, the federal government has gone to bat for us with I-35W bridge funding and light rail transit funding, just to name a few big-dollar projects.

Maybe it's not a problem of us not getting our fair piece of the federal pie, as some would argue, but a case of us taking our fair share instead of porking federal dollars we don't have to spend into our state.