Full Time Legislature? Not This Summer In Michigan
Sunday August 17, 2008, 10:36 AM
LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan's full-time legislature rarely meets in summer, especially in an election year, but that hasn't stopped political games from being played over whether lawmakers should be in session.
House Republicans held a news conference last week to ask Democrats who control the chamber to immediately return to session and address the state's high unemployment and home foreclosure rates -- issues that have been around for far longer than this summer.
The GOP props included a picture of the Capitol with a "gone fishing" sign slapped across it. Later, the Michigan Republican Party sent out news releases complaining that a handful of House Democrats in districts the GOP hopes to win this fall have "worked only one day this summer" while costing taxpayers $13,000 each...........
MiLive
LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan's full-time legislature rarely meets in summer, especially in an election year, but that hasn't stopped political games from being played over whether lawmakers should be in session.
House Republicans held a news conference last week to ask Democrats who control the chamber to immediately return to session and address the state's high unemployment and home foreclosure rates -- issues that have been around for far longer than this summer.
The GOP props included a picture of the Capitol with a "gone fishing" sign slapped across it. Later, the Michigan Republican Party sent out news releases complaining that a handful of House Democrats in districts the GOP hopes to win this fall have "worked only one day this summer" while costing taxpayers $13,000 each...........
MiLive
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