Senator Roger Hauck's Press Releases

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Roger Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant, issued the following statement after the Senate finalized voting on a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year: “The state budget has grown over 40% in recent years, and all state taxpayers got under this current budget was more government growth, along with increases in fees and taxes that further pick their pockets while Senate Democrats continue their

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Roger Hauck voted against Senate legislation appropriating millions in additional funding to close the books on the 2023-24 fiscal year. “When it was passed last year, the budget was already too big,” said Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant. “I voted against it then and still oppose the drastic overspending and one-sided, mismatched priorities. The Senate voted to throw even more taxpayer dollars at this

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Roger Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant, issued the following statement Wednesday evening after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s 2025 State of the State address: “If the governor is genuine about her goals for Michigan moving forward, I am willing to take a seat at the table, but we’ve heard this positive message of bipartisanship before — while the results that followed were vastly different. “Under the

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Roger Hauck will be available for comments Wednesday evening following the governor’s 2025 State of the State address. Who:               Sen. Roger Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant. What:             Reaction and comments following the governor’s State of the State address. When:             Immediately following the address, which is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Where:           By phone or in the House Appropriations

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Roger Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant, issued the following statement on Thursday after the Senate voted to send legislation to preserve the state’s tip credit and reforms to the paid sick leave law to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her signature: “This isn’t a fairy-tale deal where everyone got exactly what they wanted, but this is a workable solution and far better than what was

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Roger Hauck, R-Mt. Pleasant, issued the following statement on Thursday after the Senate voted to pass a bipartisan reform to maintain a tip credit for the state’s hospitality workers ahead of the new law taking effect next week: “I’m not exactly happy with how this panned out or that the Senate Democrats waited so long to act on the tipped wage issue.