Bills limiting governor's emergency powers advance out of state House oversight committee
Republican-sponsored bills to limit the state executive branch’s emergency powers made it out of the Michigan House oversight committee Tuesday.
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Republican-sponsored bills to limit the state executive branch’s emergency powers made it out of the Michigan House oversight committee Tuesday.
The latest audit from the Michigan Auditor General’s Office finds practices at the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency during the COVID-19 pandemic opened the state up to fraud.
A new state audit is highlighting problems within the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency during the pandemic. The audit focuses on how the agency on- and off-boarded its staff.
Testifying before the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee on Thursday, the state’s current Unemployment Insurance Agency director could not tell lawmakers who was in charge of security during the roughly three-month period when the agency paid out roughly $9 billion in fraudulent claims.
The director of the state’s environment department faced tough questions from a legislative committee about the drinking water crisis in Benton Harbor.