In 1942, Mildred Crow Sargent was a teenage mother from Tennessee who migrated to Detroit to work in an aircraft assembly plant as part of America's massive mobilization for WWII.
And, as she told a New York University "Real Rosie the Riveter" history project in 2010, she was "the fastest riveter" in the place.
So fast that the plant overseers encouraged her to… Read more »
As local officials in Ann Arbor continue to raise concerns that Michigan is years behind on updating the state's cleanup standards for 1,4-dioxane, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell is weighing in on the issue.
Dingell sent an open letter to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Director Keith Creagh on Thursday, calling for the DEQ to finalize stricter dioxane cleanup standards,… Read more »
It's been less than three months since Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, died following a 15-month battle with an inoperable brain tumor.
But his legacy lives on.
Chad's passing in November came at the hands of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, an extremely rare type of pediatric brain cancer.
The fact that… Read more »
Following up on the success of last year’s “Valentines for Veterans” event U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-12th District) asking local students from across her district to help keep the program going.
Dingell is asking students to make handmade cards for local veterans in order to show them they are “loved and appreciated.”
“We need your help again on… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell is leading a bipartisan coalition of 89 representatives in asking the U.S. Treasury Department to reject a Central States Pension Fund request to cut retiree benefits.
It’s one of the largest Teamster pension funds that includes 30,000 members in Michigan. If approved, the proposal sparked by the Kline-Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014… Read more »
During her speech Monday, to a crowd of area dignitaries, business leaders and high school students, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-12th District) was forced to apologize several times.
Not however because she misspoke, but in a jocular manner, apologizing for not speaking like many other politicians, and not being “politically correct” in her terminology.
She was… Read more »
Two congressional Democrats on Monday blamed Ford Motor Co.'s exit from Japan on the lack of currency manipulation provisions in a sweeping Asia-Pacific trade deal.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), who are both opposed to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that includes Japan, said the agreement doesn't crack down on… Read more »
President Barack Obama began touring the North American International Auto Show in Detroit around 2 p.m. Wednesday.
He was expected to visit the exhibits of General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler and ZF, which develops sensors, processors other devices for automated driving.
"He's coming to see what those products are and see our city at the forefront of that next generation of… Read more »
A group of congress members, including three from Michigan, introduced a bill Wednesday to remove discriminatory limitations that would exclude certain dual nationals from the Visa Waiver Program.
U.S. representatives Justin Amash (R-Mich.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) presented the Equal Protection in Travel Act of 2016.
The VWP allows… Read more »
DEARBORN, MI – U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, joined Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Wednesday in events that included a roundtable discussion with Iraqi and Syrian refugees at the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus.
Johnson has defended the Obama administration’s refugee policy, and has described the vetting of refugee applicants from Syria and Iraq… Read more »
