Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) invites local students to participate in the Sending Smiles to Vets program by making Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards for local veterans. Since the Sending Smiles to Vets program was launched in 2015, students across southeast Michigan have pitched in to make thousands of cards thanking veterans for their service.
“These… Read more »
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) issued the following statement in celebration of National Manufacturing Day:
“Manufacturing is the heart and soul of who we are in Michigan and continues to be the backbone of the American economy. The hard-working men and women in manufacturing have helped transform this country. Manufacturers in the US perform more than three… Read more »
In an effort to crack down on robocalls and scammers, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) introduced legislation to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the tools it needs to combat annoying and sometimes malicious and harmful calls that target the vulnerable including seniors.
Last year the FTC received 4.8 million consumer complaints about robocalls, and that number continues to… Read more »
On Friday, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1109, bipartisan legislation authored by Representatives Tim Walberg (MI-07) and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) to help streamline the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) review process. This commonsense bill will allow FERC to focus on its mission of affordable and reliable energy.
“I am pleased our legislation to reduce… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) sent a letter to Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center with questions about on the use and sharing of patient medical data with Paige.AI, a computational pathology and medical artificial intelligence start-up, which has exclusive rights to use MSK’s library of 25 million pathology slides.
Reporting from the New York Times and… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed another tax cut for the wealthy that leaves behind working men and women in Michigan and across the country and could add $3 trillion more to the US Debt:
“Hard-working men and women deserve better than another tax plan that leaves them behind, increases the… Read more »
– Today, the House of Representatives passed a package of bipartisan bills to address the opioid epidemic, including bills introduced by U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12). Three the bipartisan bills, the Advancing Cutting-Edge (ACE) Research Act, Jessie’s Law, the Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act, and the Opioid Screening and Chronic Pain… Read more »
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI)— both members of the bipartisan Joint Select Committee tasked with solving the nationwide multiemployer pension plan crisis— today submitted thousands of personal stories penned by workers and retirees whose families would be devastated by the sudden loss or reduction of their pensions. The… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) announced her interest in serving as a co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) for the 116th Congress.
Dingell asked for her colleagues' support in a letter to her House Democratic colleagues. Dingell is a former member of the DNC and has spent much of her adult life working in the trenches of organizing and… Read more »
The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation including provisions by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) to strengthen and evaluate emergency preparedness procedures for hospitals and long-term care facilities. Dingell wrote the Worst-Case Scenario Hospital Preparedness Act in the aftermath of the 2017 hurricane season, which caused flooding and power outages at hospitals… Read more »
