DEARBORN, MI — Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI), announced colleges and universities with campuses in Michigan’s 12th Congressional District will receive more than $66 million in emergency grants to help cover significant financial losses. At least half of the funding to institutions is required to be distributed to students in the form of emergency cash grants to help students… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Mark Pocan (D-WI) released a set of five principles to guide future coronavirus relief and stimulus packages to protect workers and communities. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) are leading a similar… Read more »
Today Congresswomen Debbie Dingell (MI-12), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) led 75 of their colleagues in calling for increased federal funding to help low-income families pay for heating, cooling, and water bills during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Members requested a minimum of $4.3 billion in supplemental funding for the Low Income Home Energy… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) announced the federal government’s timeline for issuing direct stimulus payments to individuals. The direct payments were passed by Congress as part of the third coronavirus response bill, the Coronavirus Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The CARES Act provides payments of up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child.… Read more »
DEARBORN, MI - After speaking with Border Protection officers from the US-Canada border, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) is calling on Customs and Border Protection (CBP) leadership to take all necessary measures to protect the health and safety of the workers immediately.
Dingell received confidential complaints that since CBP has ended the flexible leave scheduling program, most… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI), the lead sponsors of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, today wrote to President Donald Trump requesting a virtual meeting to discuss proposals for immediately expanding health insurance coverage to uninsured Americans. The lawmakers’ letter… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswomen Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) pressed House Leadership to include resources to protect residents facing high water bills and water shutoff as Congress considers a fourth response package to the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Dingell and Tlaib’s letter follows their letter on March 25 which was signed by 80… Read more »
DETROIT—Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) sent a letter to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske calling on the agency to safeguard the health and wellbeing of TSA employees at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) during the COVID—19 crisis, as well as answer a series of questions about its response plan… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) released the following statement after the Trump Administration released their final rule on fuel economy regulations:
“This proposal takes us in the wrong direction for every key metric for this industry, and causes serious and detrimental harm to an industry that needs certainty. The Administration’s inability to work with all… Read more »
ECORSE, MI - After receiving several complaints from workers at the Great Lakes Works facility in Ecorse, Congresswomen Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) are calling on US Steel to take all necessary measures to protect the health and safety of the workers immediately.
Dingell and Tlaib received confidential complaints about unsafe working conditions at the plant,… Read more »
