Senator Gretchen Whitmer

The Michigan Legislature adjourned for their summer recess on Thursday without a deal to fund fixing the state's deteriorating roads. According to WNEM, talks broke down over a proposed gradual increase to the state's gasoline tax. The plan would have allowed the 19-cents-a-gallon tax rise each year by the annual change in highway construction costs...

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer and members of the Senate Democratic Caucus announced the winners of the #mi2020 Scholarship Competition today. Current Michigan high school seniors were asked to submit a short web video that explains the importance of investing in higher education and how the Michigan 2020 Plan to offer free college tuition to all students is the right investment for our

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer joined with colleagues Thursday to announce plans to begin major reforms to how Michigan’s elections are run after significant concerns were raised throughout the year about the politicization of the Secretary of State’s office and voters being forced to wait for hours before being able to cast their ballots in this week’s elections. “We’ve seen t... Read

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Senate Democrats introduced legislation today that would ensure the votes of state military personnel serving overseas are properly counted. The new bills would allow for deployed servicemembers’ absentee ballots to be counted as long as they were postmarked by Election Day and would also allow them to submit their absentee ballots electro

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer announced this morning that they will be filing paperwork with the Ingham County Circuit Court today calling for the continued investigation of potential criminal activity perpetrated by House Speaker Jase Bolger and Representative Roy Schmidt as part of Schmidt’s party switch. Whit...

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer renewed her call on Wednesday for Speaker of the House Jase Bolger to resign his leadership role in the Michigan House of Representatives as newspaper editorials begin to join with the more than 10,000 people who have already signed an online petition calling for him to step down...

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer has called on Speaker of the House Jase Bolger to explain what role his taxpayer-funded attorney played in his recently reported scheme to defraud the voters of Representative Roy Schmidt’s district. Acco...

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is legislation that misses the point on the most important reforms needed in our health care system. In the meantime, it has been a detriment to the economic recovery of our country by causing massive uncertainty regarding medical costs which discourages job creation...

Haley Luxton from Burton was one of three winners announced for the Michigan 2020 scholarship competition. Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer announced the winners on Wednesday after more than 75,000 votes were cast by people across the state to help determine the winner...

Senate Democrats sharply criticized the general omnibus budget passed by Republicans yesterday for continuing what they say are misplaced priorities that favor politics over progress for the people of Michigan. State Senator John Gleason of Flushing said "working families, cities and schools are all struggling to get by right now...