Senator Dan Lauwers' Press Releases

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers on Wednesday voted in favor of supplemental funding to make new upgrades to Selfridge Air National Guard Base in preparation for the facility’s next-generation fighter mission. “The announcement of a new fighter mission was a major boost for the base and for Michigan as a whole,” said Lauwers, R-Brockway Township. “Several upgrades are needed to support the mission. This

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers, R-Brockway Township, on Friday issued the following statement after the Legislature’s completion of the fiscal year 2026 budget: “Current leadership wasted countless hours on untimely legislation instead of completing our constitutional duty to finish a state budget on time. “While the deadline has come and gone after months of wasted time by the current Senate majority, my Republican colleagues

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers on Tuesday joined his Republican colleagues in calling on the Senate’s Democratic leadership to stop neglecting the responsibility lawmakers have to pass a balanced budget. “Leadership only scheduled one day of voting this week, and it turned out not to be for passing a budget. This shameful disregard for one of the Legislature’s most important duties cannot go unnoticed

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers, R-Brockway Township, issued the following statement after Lansing Democrats voted to approve a state budget built on taking $670 million out of the state’s teacher retirement fund and increasing personal income taxes by $700 million: “Families across the state have been forced to tighten their belts and cut spending to deal with across-the-board cost increases, yet when it comes

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers, R-Brockway Township, issued the following statement on Wednesday after Lansing Democrats voted to shift zoning decisions for solar and wind generation away from local governments and into the hands of unelected Lansing bureaucrats: “The ideological reasoning behind this radical push we hear from Democrats is that we need to save the environment and our planet. Do they honestly think

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Dan Lauwers, R-Brockway Township, expressed his frustration after the Michigan Senate passed a number of proposals aimed at overhauling Michigan’s energy policy with overreaching green energy mandates: “The bills we voted on today were not the bills voted out of committee yesterday and far from the bills introduced months ago. The final product put in front of us came from partisan