Insider Intelligence

The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus voted this week to elect leadership for the upcoming 2019-2020 legislative session. Chair – Representative Sheldon Neeley (D-Flint) Executive Vice Chair – Representative Leslie Love (D-Detroit) 1st Vice Chair – Senator Marshall Bullock (D-Detroit) 2nd Vice Chair – Senator Erika Geiss (D-Taylor) Secretary – Representative Karen Whitsett (D-Detroit) Treasurer – […]

This week, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the members of her executive team. Kelly Keenan, Deputy Attorney General – Legal Counsel to Governor Granholm, private practice attorney, veteran of the Department of the Attorney General Fadwa A. Hammoud, Solicitor General – Lead attorney in the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office, trustee and treasurer of the Dearborn […]

In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the MLC offices will be closed on Monday, January 21. The House and Senate are scheduled to hold their typical Tuesday – Thursday session schedule.

There were numerous articles written in December about the record setting lame duck: 4 weeks long, record number of votes, and public acts.  But I thought a little context might be helpful in understanding just how busy the legislature was during this time.  First, a refresher on some stats. In 2018 there were 690 public […]

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. Why We’re Drawn to Leaders Who Emphasize the Negative – The adage that there are so many negative political campaign ads is “because they work” is […]

A bipartisan package of bills was introduced reforming Michigan’s civil asset forfeiture laws. The House Speaker and House Democratic Leader were joined by the Attorney General in supporting the reforms. The biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference was held, unveiling Michigan’s economic outlook and revenue projections. Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the appointment of the director for […]

On the first day of session for the new term, House Speaker Lee Chatfield (R-Levering) was joined by House Democratic Leader Christine Greig (D-Farmington Hills) and Attorney General Dana Nessel in supporting legislation reforming the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. To show the importance being placed on the issue, the bipartisan package of bills were […]

Today, the biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference was held in Lansing. The conference included House and Senate members, the directors of the House Fiscal Agency and the Senate Fiscal Agency, State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks, and State Budget Director Chris Kolb.  After hearing testimony from the Research Seminar on Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan, […]