May 25, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted May 25, 2007
$1.6B Budget Deficit Looms as Legislature Passes “07 Agreement.
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March 30, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted March 30, 2007
Budget Deficit Worsening, State Could Be $1.1 Billion in Red By May; Speaker Dillon Releases Budget Fix Proposal; House Panel Addresses Prisoner Identification Problem; House Appropriations Committee OKs Executive Order.
March 23, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted March 23, 2007
Budget Anxiety Heightened Following New Cuts, Executive Order.
February 16, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted February 16, 2007
Budget in Stalemate as GOP Rejects Executive Order; Legislation Introduced to Allow Second Parent Adoptions; Next Week’s Committee Hearings of Interest.
February 9, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted February 9, 2007
MCC Questions Governor’s Support for Human Cloning; Tax Increases, Budget Cuts Recommended to Solve Economic Woes.
January 26, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted January 26, 2007
House Committee Assignments Finalized; Senate Committee Listing; Senate Panel Receives Update on State Health Care Plan.
January 12, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted January 12, 2007
School Safety Bill Signed Into Law; MCC President Named to State Emergency Financial Advisory Panel; House Democrats Roll Out Restructured Committees; State of State Address Set for February 6.
January 5, 2007
Lansing Update / Posted January 5, 2007
Legislation Creating a Statewide Cord Blood Bank Enacted; Farmland Preservation Bill Vetoed; 94th Legislature Set to Begin Next Week.
December 15, 2006
Lansing Update / Posted December 15, 2006
Governor to Sign Welfare Reform Legislation; State to Award New Michigan Promise Scholarship; MCC to Seek Support for “Net Neutrality’; New Report Troubling for Michigan Children; Jack Kevorkian to be Paroled from Prison.
December 1, 2006
Lansing Update / Posted December 1, 2006
Bills Promoting Adult Stem Cells Moving Through Legislature; Legislature Again Seeking Limits on State Assistance Programs; 2007-2008 Legislative Leaders Elected.