Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has joined with several other state AGs to research the question of whether the so-called Nebraska compromise — incentives added to the Senate health care reform bill to gain the vote of Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson to end the debate and bring the bill to [...]
The White House may be celebrating the fact that the Senate finally managed to overcome their arcane rules and schedule a vote on the health care reform bill — a vote that will almost certainly approve the bill — but Rep. John Conyers of Detroit is none too happy with [...]
I couldn’t help myself.. Once these folks assume their seats in the senate they lose sight of their Senatorial Oaths. You know.. The one that goes like this:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against [...]
One of the public option's strongest Congressional supporters insisted on Monday that while the Senate is poised to pass health care legislation that does not offer consumers a government-run insurance plan, he will bring the idea up again -- most likely after that bill is passed.
Sen. [...]
It’s one AM Monday morning on the weekend before Christmas. Do you know what your Senate is voting on? No, and that’s the whole point.
But don’t be concerned. Our future is in good hands.
Never mind that Ben Nelson proved to be as principled as a hooker in [...]
In a flurry of legislative activity late last week the Senate passed a bill with provisions that would ban the Dept. of Environmental Quality from considering whether proposed power plants are necessary and prudent. This measure, if passed through the House might have squashed a February executive order [...]
The U.S. Senate passed a defense appropriations bill on Sunday morning that includes an extension of unemployment benefits and other provision that will help many in Michigan during these tough economic times. The House had voted for the same bill earlier last week.
The bill includes an extension [...]
After a long day [...]
The House is expected to reconvene here in about 45 minutes, and one of the items on their agenda is expected to be the awful coal plant building bill passed yesterday by the Senate on a party line vote. Here's what the bill willl actually do:
It will allow Consumers to [...]
LANSING– Both chambers of the Michigan legislature remained in session Thursday night, preparing for four bills lawmakers say are key to Michigan’s educational future.
Four bills are pending in joint House-Senate conference committees. There lawmakers will hammer out the differences between the bills passed in the Democratic dominated House and the [...]
Someone e-mailed an hour or so ago and objected in very roundabout terms to the characterization of the last post's headline and content. It's not entirely fair to the Senate Democrats, this person said, because none of them voted in favor of that thoroughly noxious bill.
Guilty as charged, I suppose. [...]
Update! ... Onward, into the House.
What awful, stupid legislation:
(15) IN MAKING A DETERMINATION ON AN APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT
19 TO INSTALL AN ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
20 NOT REVIEW OR CONSIDER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
21 (A) THIS STATE'S NEEDS FOR ELECTRICITY.
22 (B) ALTERNATIVE METHODS [...]
Tim Melton
LANSING — It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s drama nonetheless at the Capitol today.
House Democrats held a press conference at 12:30 p.m. to vent their frustrations with Senate Republicans who walked away from a joint House-Senate conference committee last night. The committee has been working to [...]
Senate [...]
MIRS breaking news thingy:
Rep. Tim MELTON (D-Auburn Hills) said this morning that negotiations are currently stalled after Senate Republicans walked out of the room last night having tried to interject new issues into the negotiations. "I'm still at the table, as far as they know I'm still in the room" [...]
