Everyone needs a vacation every once in a while and Michigan's lawmakers are no different. But in Lansing, some folks in the state Senate promised they wouldn't be taking one this summer, so they could work on a road funding deal.
The state House, however, made no such promises, and they've just started a month long break.
In the meantime, a union-backed ballot proposal has emerged that would raise the corporate income tax significantly in Michigan.
Here to explain it all is Rick Pluta, the Capitol bureau chief for the Michigan Public Radio Network: