Michigan is millions of dollars closer to fixing its crumbling, pothole-ladden roads.
On Thursday, the Michigan Senate voted 36-0 to approve $175 million to rehabilitate state roads over the next fiscal year.
Preceding the unanimous vote was a flurry of partisan squabbling, with Democrats hurling claims the increased road funding wasn't enough to solve Michigan's declining infrastructure problem.
Before the road funding bill passed, democratic amendments had been proposed to use $275 million of the state's rainy day fund to pay for roads.
"It's raining in Michigan, literally at times raining concrete," Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. (D-East Lansing) said.…