{"id":794514,"date":"2021-09-20T11:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=794514"},"modified":"2021-09-20T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:59:00","slug":"michigan-dem-choses-vacation-over-crucial-committee-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-dem-choses-vacation-over-crucial-committee-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Dem Choses Vacation Over Crucial Committee Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-dem-choses-vacation-over-crucial-committee-votes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=794514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.425531914894\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Haley Stevens enjoyed &#8216;boating, couples massage, dinner&#8217; rather than vote on Dem spending priorities<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-736x552-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-e1632148139813.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-112x85.jpeg 112w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-1400x1050.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-655x491.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Stevens-wedding-photo-800x600.jpeg 800w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTwitter\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 September 20, 2021 11:40 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"83.753971185815\">\n<p>Just days after House members returned to Capitol Hill from their August recess, Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens skipped hearings on President Joe Biden&#8217;s record-setting budget to take a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from a month-long recess, Stevens married software engineer Rob Gulley in a September 3 ceremony. According to the Democrat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zola.com\/registry\/haleyandrobseptember3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wedding registry<\/a>, the couple planned to &#8220;head up north right after the wedding&#8221; and accepted cash contributions to fund &#8220;boating, couples massage, [and] dinner&#8221; on the honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>The trip coincided with two House Committee on Education and Labor markup sessions during which members voted on an array of amendments to Biden&#8217;s $3.5 trillion spending plan. Stevens, who has served on the committee since she joined Congress in 2019, missed votes on at least a dozen amendments, including one that would <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/ED\/ED00\/20210909\/114029\/BILLS-117-SConRes14ReconciliationDirectives-B001299-Amdt-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit<\/a> funds in the bill from going to universities that host Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens is not the first House member to miss votes for a honeymoon in 2021. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R., N.C.) faced criticism in May after he missed 21 votes to honeymoon in Dubai. Cawthorn defended his absence, telling Real America&#8217;s Voice that he &#8220;was doing the only thing I find more important than my service here in Congress, and that was my service as a husband.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stevens held the wedding just days after the Centers for Disease Control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petoskeynews.com\/story\/news\/local\/2021\/08\/31\/according-cdc-guidelines-entire-state-michigan-should-mask-up-indoors\/5661343001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the entire state of Michigan should wear masks when indoors in public. While the <em>Detroit News<\/em> noted that Stevens&#8217;s ceremony took place outdoors, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel (D.)\u2014who officiated the wedding\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dananessel\/status\/1433949948354179072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> a photo of the subsequent, indoor reception. Attendees were not wearing masks. Nessel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dananessel\/status\/1434227142888407055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> the photo by saying that &#8220;vaccinations and proof of Covid negative tests were required to attend the wedding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Confucius Institute amendment, which was proposed by&nbsp;Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), Stevens skipped votes on amendments that would <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/ED\/ED00\/20210909\/114029\/CRPT-117-ED00-Vote021-20210909.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit<\/a> illegal immigrants from receiving Pell grants and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/ED\/ED00\/20210909\/114029\/BILLS-117-SConRes14ReconciliationDirectives-S001135-Amdt-27.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">require<\/a> local education agencies that receive funds under the bill to offer in-person instruction to vulnerable students.<\/p>\n<p>After she served on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaigns, Stevens, a Michigan native, in 2017 moved back to the state to run for the House seat vacated by retiring Republican Dave Trott. She defeated GOP challenger Lena Epstein by 6 points. Stevens&#8217;s 2020 reelection battle proved more contentious: She narrowly defeated Republican Eric Esshaki by less than 3 points. Her district is considered a top GOP target in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Rep. 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