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(Source: MIRS.news, Published 02/16/2023) Senate Democrats may be threatening to change the chamber's long-standing rule on how immediate effect is tallied, but whether they have 20 votes to pass a resolution to make this adjustment is in question.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's tax cut proposal moved out of a joint House-Senate conference committee this afternoon but stalled on the House floor Wednesday evening after the Democratic majority was unable to get the 56 votes needed to pass it. The House plans to return to session at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The tax cut deal House and Senate Democrats struck with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to move out of a legislative conference committee Wednesday, Feb. 8, despite agitation among progressives and other Democratic legislators

The bi-partisan effort by Sen. Ed McBroom (R-Waucedah Twp.) and Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield) to convince the prior legislature to adopt a long-awaited Freedom of Information Act expansion to the governor's office and Legislature never reached the finish line.

The Senate Democratic Fund could face a $1 million fine if the Bureau of Elections finds it improperly shielded a last-minute loan from campaign finance reports.