Craig Mauger for the Detroit News:

A committee within the Democrat-controlled Michigan House advanced bills Tuesday that would help labor unions, which frequently support Democratic lawmakers’ campaigns, raise money for political contributions.

Democrats won control of both the state House and Senate for the first time in 40 years in November. The new proposals, approved by the House Elections Committee in party-line votes, would remove a ban on government bodies administering payroll deductions for political committees and would broadly allow automatic deductions to be set up for giving to labor union committees.