Senate Notes

This past Thursday, we approved a piece of legislation that represents one of the most exciting, game-changing efforts in economic development and diversification we’ve seen in the history of the state. House Bill 4455 would create the Largescale Economic Activity and Development Act.

CAPITOL COMMENTS

Our nation has finally returned to normalcy. Businesses have reopened, kids are back in school, restaurants are busy, and Americans are traveling again – yet the Biden administration is maintaining unnecessary and out-of-date COVID-19 policies.

What An Experience? What A Performance?

If you saw me as a child or even a teen, you would see a different person. Always the introvert, I would be watching my feet, quiet as a mouse, and like that mouse, trying to avoid attention. Like many people, my worst fear was public speaking, and singing on a stage would have been a nightmare.

Restore Order At Our Southern Border

Our nation is experiencing an unprecedented crisis at our southern border – a place that is supposed to be the bedrock of maintaining order, fairness, and security for the American people.

How To Interview The Prospective Husband, Or Not

I hit some yard sales this past weekend and bought myself a few things I couldn’t live without -- a set of four “vintage” plastic cups, a used umbrella decorated with cats wearing sunglasses, a t-shirt that I’ll never wear in public because it says a nasty word on the front, and a book.

Senate Review

It was an extremely busy week as we wrapped up committee work on House bills that were approved in their chamber and sent to us for another look. We had about 370 pieces of legislation to review and further approved around 280.

CAPITOL NOTES

This was a very full week at the House, with lots of groups visiting the Capitol and a packed committee schedule with lengthy agendas. Thursday was the deadline to hear Senate bills in House committees. We started with 327 Senate bills and are left with 271 after the committee process.

Senate Notes

April 14 marked the deadline for Senate committees to consider bills that originated in the House of Representatives.

Missed But Not Forgotten

People turn over in education just as they do in other jobs. For instance, when the Trotter family arrived in Tecumseh in 1983 and bought The Countywide News, Alva Melot was superintendent at the Tecumseh School System.

CAPITOL COMMENTS

President Biden has been desperately searching for ways to lower record-high gas prices, yet instead of addressing the root causes, he continues to slap a bandage on this self-inflicted crisis by tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).