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Budget talks advance, GOP election bills tweaked: The week in Michigan politics
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LANSING, MI - This week in Lansing was more about molding legislation than passing bills, at least on major topics.
Both chambers made moves to further clarify key initiatives, with budget talks picking up in the House and Senate and amendments made to Senate Republican election bills.
The House continued to tackle ethics reform, while Republicans in both chambers moved to allow high schools to hold in-person commencements. Here’s what happened this week at the Michigan Capitol:
Budget talks evolve
Quarterly budgets for many state agencies, staffing cuts and additional limits on how state agencies can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic all remain on the table as Michigan lawmakers move forward with setting the state’s annual budget.
Michigan House-passed bill would spell out conflict of interest policy for lawmakers
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The House Chamber pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Neil Blake | MLive.comNeil Blake | MLive.com
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Michigan lawmakers would be explicitly barred from voting on issues they have a personal interest in under legislation that passed the House with wide bipartisan support Thursday.
Sponsored by Rep. Pamela Hornberger, House Bill 4001 would prohibit state lawmakers from voting on bills or other measures that could personally benefit them, their families or any entities in which they have a stake.
Michigan GOP effort to censure Upton, Meijer fails in committee
Washington GOP U.S. Reps. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer avoided censure Wednesday by a Michigan Republican Party committee, which defeated the resolution by a 9-5 vote, the panel s chairman said.
Upton of St. Joseph and Meijer of Grand Rapids Township were among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in instigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The failed censure vote is the latest skirmish in a tug of war within the party that s pitted Trump loyalists against those denouncing his unproven claims that the presidential election was stolen.
Southwest Michigan leaders sworn in as State Representatives
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Julie Rogers was sworn in as a State Representative on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Julie Rogers).
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) Wednesday, three new State Representatives from the Southwest Michigan area were sworn in for their first terms in office.
To begin with, State Rep. Steve Carra (R-Three Rivers), was sworn in by House Clerk Gary Randall.
Steve Carra, of Three Rivers, is sworn in as a State Representative on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Steve Carra).