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WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and bipartisan Michigan colleagues sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McCarthy, and Minority Leader McConnell urging for full funding for the Creating Helpful Incentives for the Production of Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act. This letter follows a roundtable that Dingell hosted in Michigan with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to discuss the impacts of the semiconductor chip shortage on auto workers.

Dingell and her colleagues wrote, “As you know, it has now been almost a full year since the Creating Helpful Incentives for the Production of Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act was enacted and, yet, Congress still has not moved to enact the necessary accompanying appropriations legislation needed. We were pleased to learn recently there is agreement between both chambers to begin to conference the Senate-passed United States Innovation and Competition Act, and we strongly urge leadership—of both chambers and of both parties—to include the important provisions in this package that would direct funding toward strengthening the long-term health and securing of American semiconductor manufacturing in any final legislation, including at least $2 billion for “mature node” chips used across the automotive industry.

“This week, the Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was in Southeast Michigan to discuss the real impacts of the semiconductor chip shortage on the mobility industry and across our nation’s economy. It is clear, across political parties that this is a bipartisan issue we must face together. From decisionmakers to original equipment manufacturers, suppliers, labor, and education and workforce development stakeholders who met with Secretary Raimondo, the consequences for the automotive industry as a whole—and the nation—if we fail to advance legislation soon that would fully fund the CHIPS Act and provide the necessary support for the industry at the same time could be dire.”

Co-signers of the letter include: Reps. Haley Stevens (MI-11), Dan Kildee (MI-05), Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Elissa Slotkin (MI-08), Peter Meijer (MI-03), Fred Upton (MI-06), and Andy Levin (MI-09).

Dingell has long been a proponent of domestic manufacturing and is committed to addressing the semiconductor chip shortage. Over the summer, Dingell introduced legislation to increase incentives to invest in facilities and equipment to domestically manufacture critical chip components.

To view the full letter, please click here.

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