{"id":6176,"date":"2022-03-28T09:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:47:29","slug":"good-government-relies-on-good-oversight-irwin-mcbroom-propose-permanent-bipartisan-oversight-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2022\/03\/28\/good-government-relies-on-good-oversight-irwin-mcbroom-propose-permanent-bipartisan-oversight-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Government Relies on Good Oversight: Irwin, McBroom Propose Permanent Bipartisan Oversight Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LANSING, Mich. (March 28, 2022) \u2013 Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Jeff Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) and Sen.&nbsp;<strong>Ed McBroom<\/strong>&nbsp;(R-Waucedah Township) have introduced legislation that will greatly improve the functioning of our state agencies and ensure the Michigan legislature\u2019s ability to fight corruption.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/SJR-O.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Joint Resolution O<\/a>&nbsp;would amend Michigan\u2019s constitution to create a permanent, bicameral, bipartisan oversight committee.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/senatedems.com\/irwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/Senate-Bill-997.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Bill 997<\/a>&nbsp;would detail the committee\u2019s powers, along with how members are selected, vacancies are filled, and removal of members from the committee. The committee would be comprised of eight members of the legislature \u2014 two appointed by the Speaker of the House, two appointed by the House Minority Leader, two appointed by the Senate Majority Leader, and two appointed by the Senate Minority Leader.<br \/><br \/>\u201cGood government is impossible without good oversight. Our current system of legislative oversight relies mostly on politics and the personal preference of committee chairs,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Irwin<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cWe have a responsibility to the people of Michigan to investigate the functions of government no matter who the governor is and what party they represent. Our plan puts accountability and the public interest first.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Sen. Irwin and Sen. McBroom\u2019s legislation would create a legislative oversight system, similar to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levin-center.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Accessible-CUS-Full-Report-07-08-19_updated-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 other states<\/a>, that balances party membership on committees that provide oversight. Their efforts would ensure that the minority party has a voice in matters of oversight, along with fostering the necessary bipartisanship and cooperation to ensure good government during times of extreme partisan attitudes.<br \/><br \/>\u201cDue to term limits and the frequency of varied partisan power in Michigan, it is clear we need stronger safeguards to ensure consistency in government oversight,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. McBroom<\/strong>&nbsp;said. \u201cWe have taken some of the most robust methods from the states and are trying to adapt them to Michigan. I hope this will leave a mechanism in place to protect the people from unrestrained, partisan bureaucracy and executive branch power.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The Levin Center, Michigan\u2019s nationally recognized leader in bipartisan, fact-based legislative oversight, recently published a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.levin-center.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Accessible-CUS-Full-Report-07-08-19_updated-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;on all 50 states\u2019 oversight capabilities and noted that Michigan \u201cpossesses extensive resources that could facilitate legislative oversight&#8230; Yet, evidence suggests that legislative oversight is generally lax.\u201d The report notes that when one party is in control of the executive and legislative branches, oversight generally does not happen, and in times of divided government, legislative oversight is used or disregarded as a partisan weapon, and therefore does not improve the function and transparency of government as much as it should.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. (March 28, 2022) \u2013 Sen.&nbsp;Jeff Irwin&nbsp;(D-Ann Arbor) and Sen.&nbsp;Ed McBroom&nbsp;(R-Waucedah Township) have introduced legislation that will greatly improve the functioning of our state agencies and ensure the Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good Government Relies on Good Oversight: Irwin, McBroom Propose Permanent Bipartisan Oversight Committee - Senator Jeff Irwin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.senatedems.com\/irwin\/2022\/03\/28\/good-government-relies-on-good-oversight-irwin-mcbroom-propose-permanent-bipartisan-oversight-committee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Good Government Relies on Good Oversight: Irwin, McBroom Propose Permanent Bipartisan Oversight Committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. 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