No one should consider this an endorsement or a slight at any of the other folks but if you're going to go with a third term member Schuitmaker's name jumps right out to me.

Ten of 17 budget bills for fiscal 2008 spent more money than was enacted for those same budgets in fiscal 2007. The total additional spending over 2007 enacted law represented by these 10 bills was $1,470,045,900. The amount of this total approved by each lawmaker is listed below.

Green (R) $327,710,900
Meekhof (R) $372,445,900
Hildenbrand (R) $121,000,000
Proos (R) $1,230,835,000
Schuitmaker (R) $1,092,835,000

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Looks like fans of limited government lose no matter which of them is it - they just lose more with some than with others.

Proos in particular looks like a real winner. Here's my favorite of his current bills:

2007 House Bill 4599, to rename a portion of Highway M-63 in Berrien County the "Harry Gast Parkway."

Calley (R) $1,463,545,900

Here's one of his bills:

2007 House Joint Resolution R, to place before voters in the next general election a Constitutional amendment to extend the term limits of state representatives and senators, allowing the former to serve up to six terms of two-years each, and the latter up to three terms of four years each.