Also of note, as of October 31st, legislators like myself were no longer allowed to submit any new bill requests for the year “other than those receiving an exception from the Senate Majority Leader or Speaker of the House.” #mileg https://twitter.com/freep/status/1327971879655763970

I note this for two reasons. 1) Constituents reached out this week (rightfully) asking what I was doing to address this pandemic, and it’s infuriating we haven’t been able to draft or introduce new bills to address the public health crisis. 1/

2) It shows, once again, that the legislature is a deliberatively slow-moving body. It is not equipped to quickly respond to emergencies vs. the Governor’s office utilizing emergency powers to respond quickly.

The GOP successfully sued to strike down those powers.