With lawmakers in Congress increasingly impatient with America’s three-year-long COVID-19 emergency, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the emergency declaration once it expires May 11.

The emergency declaration has gone on for three years, across two presidencies, after being issued by then-President Donald Trump in March 2020. It will last three years and two months by the end.

In November, 62 Senators voted in favor of terminating the COVID emergency. Biden said he would veto any such effort, and the House never acted.

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But the new U.S. House, under Republican control, is expected to vote to terminate the emergency this week. On Jan. 17, Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Kentucky, submitted the “Pandemic is Over Act.” The bill, if signed into law, would end the COVID emergency immediately.

Though the November vote took place in the 117th Congress and the House vote would take place in the 118th, together, they can be read as an insistence from lawmakers that America move on from emergency status.

Biden’s willingness to end the emergency can be read as agreement.

An unnamed senior administration official explained to Politico why Biden came around on ending the emergency declaration.

“This decision is based on what is best for the health of our country at this time,” the senior official told Politico. “We’re in a pretty good place in the pandemic, we’ve come through the winter, cases are down dramatically from where they were the past two winters.”

The 118th Congress just finished its first month of service. In that time, seven of Michigan’s 13 representatives in the U.S. House have submitted bills. Six others have not.

Here are the six lawmakers who’ve not submitted bills so far:

• Dan Kildee, D-Flint
• John James, R-Farmington Hills
• Rashida Tlaib, D-Dearborn
• Hillary Scholten, D-Grand Rapids
• Elissa Slotkin, D-Lansing
• Haley Stevens, D-Birmingham

Of the seven lawmakers who submitted bills, three only submitted one.

Bill Huizenga, R-Holland, submitted the “Stop Trying to Obsessively Vilify Energy Act.”

Lisa McClain, R-Bruce Township, submitted a resolution called “Expressing support for the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization,” which said that abortion is not right found in the U.S. Constitution. McClain’s resolution says the House “commits itself to supporting policies that continue to protect all life,” but does not call for specific policies or changes in law.

First-term Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit, submitted the “Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2023.”

Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor, and Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, have both submitted two bills. John Moolenaar, R-Caledonia, has submitted three.

Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, has submitted the most bills of anyone in Michigan’s congressional delegation, with seven.

Neither of Michigan’s two senators, Democrats Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow, have submitted a bill thus far in 2023.