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Hortman was聽聽two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota's chief federal prosecutor called an assassination. It and another shooting also left her husband, Mark, dead and a state senator and his wife seriously wounded.

鈥淢elissa Hortman will be remembered as the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history. I get to remember her as a close friend, a mentor, and the most talented legislator I have ever known,鈥澛犅爏aid in his eulogy. 鈥滷or seven years, I have had the privilege of signing her agenda into law. I know millions of Minnesotans get to live their lives better because she and Mark chose public service and politics.鈥�

The service

Neither Biden nor Harris spoke, but they sat in the front row with the governor, who was Harris' running mate in 2024.

Biden also was聽one of more than 7,500 people who聽聽as Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their golden retriever, Gilbert, lay in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda in St. Paul. Gilbert聽聽in the attack and had to be euthanized.

Biden also visited the wounded senator in a hospital.

Dozens of current and former state legislators from both parties and other elected officials who worked with Hortman also attended.

贬辞谤迟尘补苍,听聽in 2004,聽听辞蹿听聽like free lunches for public school students during the momentous 2023 session聽, along with expanded protections for abortion and trans rights. With the House split 67-67 between Democrats and Republicans this year, she yielded the gavel to a Republican under a power-sharing deal, took the title speaker emerita, and聽聽that threatened to shut down state government.

The governor's eulogy

Walz said Hortman saw her mission as 鈥渢o get as much good done for as many people as possible.鈥� And he said her focus on people was what made her so effective.

鈥淪he certainly knew how to get her way. No doubt about that,鈥� Walz said. 鈥淏ut she never made anyone feel that they鈥檇 gotten rolled at a negotiating table. That wasn鈥檛 part of it for her, or a part of who she was. She didn鈥檛 need somebody else to lose to win for her.鈥�

The governor said the best way to honor the Hortmans would be by following their example.

鈥淢aybe it is this moment where each of us can examine the way we work together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for things we care about," Walz said. "A moment when each of us can recommit to engaging in politics and life the way Mark and Melissa did聽鈥� fiercely, enthusiastically, heartily, but without ever losing sight of our common humanity.鈥�

The homily

The Rev. Daniel Griffith, pastor and rector of the Basilica, who led the service, said the country is in need of deep healing. He said it seems as if the U.S. is living in the 鈥渄ystopian reality鈥� described at the beginning of William Butler Yeats' poem,聽

鈥淗ere in Minnesota, we have been the ground zero place, sadly, for racial injustice," Griffith said. "The killing of聽聽just miles from our church today. And now we are the ground zero place for political violence and extremism. Both of these must be decried in the strongest possible terms, as they are, respectively, a threat to human dignity and indeed, our democracy.鈥�

But the priest also said Minnesota could also be 鈥渁 ground zero place for restoration and justice and healing.鈥� He added that the presence of so many people was a sign that that work can succeed.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese offered his condolences to the Hortman family.

A private burial will be held at a later date.

The Hortman family

The Hortmans were proud of their adult children, Sophie and Colin Hortman, and the lawmaker often spoke of them.

In a voice choked with emotion, Colin said his parents embodied the Golden Rule, and he read the聽聽which his mother always kept in her wallet. He said it captures her essence. It starts, 鈥淟ord make me an instrument of your peace.鈥�

After the service, Walz presented the children with U.S. and Minnesota flags that flew over the Capitol on the day their parents were killed.

The suspect

The man accused of killing the Hortmans at their home in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park on June 14, and wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in nearby Champlin, made a brief court appearance Friday. He's due back in court Thursday.

Vance Boelter, 57, of Green Isle,聽聽the night of June 15 after what authorities called the聽.

Boelter remains jailed and has not entered a plea. Prosecutors need to secure a grand jury indictment first. His lawyers have declined to comment on the charges, which could carry the聽

Friends have described Boelter as an evangelical Christian with聽. But prosecutors have declined so far to speculate on a motive.