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Dingell, Great Lakes Task Force, Urge President Biden to Emphasize Importance of Canadian Investment in Great Lakes

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WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, sent a bipartisan letter with several colleagues to President Biden this week, urging the president to highlight the importance of Canadian investment in our shared Great Lakes resources during his upcoming visit to the country later this month. “The Great Lakes contain one-fifth of the world’s…

Dingell, Casey, Bowman, Introduce Legislation to Make Home Care Coverage Mandatory Under Medicaid

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WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), and Congressman Jamaal Bowman Ed.D. (NY-16) introduced the HCBS Access Act to make HCBS a mandatory benefit within Medicaid and ensure eligible older adults and people with disabilities have the option to choose between home care and institutional care. The HCBS Access Act would also strengthen the…

Dingell Statement on Biden Budget Proposal

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WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) released the following statement on President Biden’s proposed budget for FY2024. “President Biden has always said we need to build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, and that’s exactly what this budget will do by continuing to invest in American workers and industries. In the past two years, we have created more than 12…

Dingell Leads Southeastern Michigan Colleagues in Requesting Answers from DTE Following Weeks-Long Power Outage

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Haley Stevens (MI-11), and Shri Thanedar (MI-13) wrote a letter to DTE Energy requesting explanations for the outages following the recent winter storms in Michigan that left nearly 900,000 households without power. “For more than two weeks I have heard from people across Southeast Michigan who have…

5G and Beyond Caucus Co-Chairs Reintroduce the Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act

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Washington, D.C. - The Congressional 5G and Beyond Caucus co-chairs Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Bill Johnson (R-OH), and Annie Kuster (D-NH) reintroduced the Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act. The bipartisan legislation will bolster American leadership by bringing key leaders and stakeholders together to create a unified approach in…

Dingell Statement on MI GOP Response to Toxic Waste Delivery to Romulus

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ROMULUS, Mich. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) released the following statement calling on the Michigan Republican Party to work to find real solutions to protect residents of Southeast Michigan from toxic waste disposal in their communities.  “We need more than just PR stunts by members of our state GOP, we need them to join us in the fight for safe storage of hazardous…

Dingell Statement on Transport of Hazardous Waste from East Palestine, Ohio to Belleville

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) released the following statement in response to an update from the office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine that contaminated soil from the site of the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio will be moved by truck to U.S. Ecology Wayne Disposal in Belleville.  “We were not given a heads up on this…

Dingell Announces Over $2.3 Million for Clean Energy Projects in MI-06

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ANN ARBOR, MI – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced $2,306,549 in funding to support three Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) projects in Michigan’s 6th Congressional District, including at the University of Michigan. The projects are focused on determining the viability of LENR as a carbon-free energy source. Funding comes from the Department of Energy’s (DOE)…

Dingell Announces $3 Million Grant for Connected & Automated Vehicle Research at University of Michigan

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ANN ARBOR, MI – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06), along with U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), today announced that the University of Michigan’s Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) will receive a $3,000,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) University Transportation Centers (UTC)…

Dingell Celebrates Paczki Day 2023

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today celebrated Paczki Day, an indulgent Polish tradition before the fasting of Lent, by delivering the traditional Polish donuts to friends in the media and first responders across Michigan’s 6th District. Delivering paczki in celebration of this day is a Dingell family tradition started by John Dingell many years ago…

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