Gov. Gretchen Whitmer solidified Michigan’s commitment to ensuring accessible and secure elections with the signing of several key election and voter rights related bills at the NAACP headquarters in Detroit on No. 30, 2023. The legislation focuses on enhancing Michigan’s democracy, such as increasing access to voting and safeguarding the integrity of state election campaigning rules.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer solidified Michigan’s commitment to ensuring accessible and secure elections with the signing of several key election and voter rights related bills at the NAACP headquarters in Detroit on No. 30, 2023. The legislation focuses on enhancing Michigan’s democracy, such as increasing access to voting and safeguarding the integrity of state election campaigning rules.
Michigan state Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) speaks with the capitol press corps on the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2023.
House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) joined Governor WHitmer and Senate Majority Leader Brinks for a press conference about the Lowering MI Costs Plan, the largest tax break in decades for millions of Michiganders, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) was sworn in officially as representative for the 2nd House District for the 2019-2020 legislative session, on Wednesday, January 9, 2019. The swearing-in ceremony marked the formal opening of Michigan’s 100th Legislature.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) welcomed Erica Sivertson, strategy manager at Deloitte Consulting, as his guest for the State of the State Tuesday, February 12, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) listens to testimony in the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday, February 27, 2019.
A coalition of Michigan House and Senate legislators introduced a plan today to guarantee pay equity for all residents of the state, on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, without any policy interventions to ensure equal status for women, the disparity in wages between men and women will not end in Michigan until the year 2059. House Bills 4629-40 and Senate Bills 328-39 were introduced to close that significant pay gap.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) read to students at Detroit Merit Charter Academy in honor of March is Reading Month on Monday, March 11, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) testifies in the House Tax Policy Committee Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
Michigan House Democrats introduced House Resolutions 156-161 to formally call on the federal government to adopt Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recently unveiled Great Lakes 2020 Agenda and take meaningful action to protect the health, economy and ecology of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019.
Democratic members of the House of Representatives show their support for the striking United Auto Workers members on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) testifies in the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday, October 3, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) and other state representatives discussed state and local aging policy as part of a panel discussion at the AARP Age-Friendly Communities and States Conference in Lansing on Monday, October 7, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) testifies on his bill in a bipartisan water quality package that would tighten testing standards for lead and PFAS in drinking water, in the House Natural Resources Committee Tuesday, October 15, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) welcomed Bishop Reginald Bluestein, of New Realm Holiness Church in Detroit, for the invocation on Tuesday, October 29, 2019.
State Rep. Joe Tate (D-Detroit) spoke at a press conference introducing House Democrats' Small Business, Big Impact legislation on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. The five bill package is designed to ensure entrepreneurs have access to the critical supports and opportunities necessary to get their businesses off the ground and keep their doors open.
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