It’s been two weeks of the House not holding session after passing the state budget. And with no new legislative action in the lower chamber and a record low number of Public Acts signed this year, MIRS wanted to answer the question on everyone’s mind: Why do House bills start at HB 4001?

Fourth-term Reps. Greg VanWoerkom (R-Norton Shores), 45, and Pauline Wendzel (R-Watervliet), 35, are engaged to be married, making the couple only the second duo of Michigan legislators to be married to each other while serving, and the first in 50 years.