In The Chair: President
Senator Brinks asked and was granted unanimous consent to make a statement and moved that the statement be printed in the Journal.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Brinks’ statement is as follows:
I often say that I have the best team in Lansing—and I mean it. For the last two years, that is in no small part because of somebody we have to bid farewell to today in my office—Emma Repp. It is with sadness that I have to rise, but it is also with gratitude, of course, for her service to me, to our staff, and to the people of the 29th District.
Emma has been our constituent services—front desk, as we like to say—director for all of the pandemic, and the better part of the last two years. She has been exceedingly patient, kind, empathetic, hard-working, and conscientious. She has been the consummate team player. She’s excellent at responding to the ever-changing schedule—and everybody in this room knows how important that is, and you know that the person in charge of the schedule is really the most important person in the office. But really, to me I think, she’s been the most important person in our office because of the service she has provided to the people of the 29th District in this very difficult year especially. The work that she has done to help constituents has just been unmatched. She has been, as I said, patient, kind, empathetic. If you have ever had the opportunity to listen to your staff members as they talk to your constituents from the other room, you know what kind of special person it takes to truly listen to people when they’re having a crisis, to truly understand what it is they need from you and how you can help them. Emma has just been without question excellent on all scores.
She will be incredibly missed by not just me, but by the rest of my team who are up in the Gallery today, and by the constituents of the 29th District. Emma, we wish you well in your future endeavors, we thank you, and I ask my colleagues to join me in thanking you for the service to the people of the state of Michigan.
Senate Bill No. 90, entitled
A bill to make appropriations for the department of natural resources for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022; and to provide for the expenditure of the appropriations.
(This bill was returned from the House on Tuesday, May 25, with a House substitute (H-1) and immediate effect, and was laid over under the rules. See Senate Journal No. 47, p. 798.)
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was not concurred in, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor, as follows: