On March 27, 2026, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to reopen most of Homeland Security. Huizenga voted to throw it out. On March 31 he turned up in a tourist photo at Edinburgh Castle. On April 30 the House gave up and passed the Senate's bill anyway — 34 days later, one day before the Coast Guard would have run out of money to pay its people.
The No. 4 Republican in the House was asked about the socialist momentum inside the Democratic Party. She told the people it's gaining ground with to get out of the country.
A federal judge ruled on August 5 that Veterans Guardian ran an illegal, predatory business against disabled veterans. Bergman's bill would legalize that business in all 50 states — and the company's CEO and COO each maxed out to his campaign twelve weeks before he introduced it.
Border crossings at the Soo bridge fell 24%. A gear shop is down 27%. ProPublica asked the congressman who represents the Upper Peninsula what he plans to do about it, and got no response — because there is no mention of tariffs anywhere on his website during Trump's second term.
Audio obtained by the Daily Beast catches Michigan's Republican nominee for governor promising to pass 'the most conservative, most pro-life bill' he can — after telling voters during his 2024 campaign that Proposal 3 had closed the question.
On June 9, 2026, the House passed S. 2 by 214 to 212. At that margin every single Republican yes vote was the deciding vote. Here are the 187 still in their races who have report cards on this site.
The chairman of the House China committee wrote a bill to slap 35% to 100% tariffs on Chinese goods. Michigan farmers lost three straight years in the soybean market, and he went after the Midwest nonprofit that ran the farm trade roundtables.
Researchers named McLaren Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant and UM Health-Sparrow Carson — both in his district — among the rural hospitals most at risk. Three weeks later John Moolenaar voted for the budget bill that cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid. The rural health bill he keeps introducing is a payment-rule fix that has never reached a floor vote in twenty years.
John Moolenaar voted twice to cancel money Congress had already approved for public broadcasting, and dismissed it as 'clearly biased news coverage.' WCMU — licensed to Central Michigan University in his district, serving 42 Michigan counties — lost 19% of its budget.
