This EarthDay, I'm proud to join Congressman Donald McEachin in honoring this day & recommitting to working towards bold, transformative solutions to combat the Climate Crisis. We all have a part to play in this fight & can make a big difference by making small changes in our everyday lives.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) continued her push to strengthen protections for safe drinking water. During an Energy and Commerce hearing in the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, Dingell pushed for improved standards under the Safe Drinking Water Act and the establishment of a national drinking water standard for PFAS.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) participated in a virtual hearing on the Trump Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dingell highlighted the need for a national plan on COVID-19 vaccine development and safety. According to Dr. Fauci and other world leading health...
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 and the healthcare system. Dingell highlighted the need to expand programs like Medicare and Medicaid and put in place strong workplace protections to address the health inequities that have been apparent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, African Americans make up 14 percent...
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change held a hearing on the relationship between frontline communities of color and low-income families and the disproportionate exposures to environmental pollution and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) participated in a virtual hearing with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and the Health Subcommittee held a hearing on “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response” with Dr. Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). Bright, a respected immunologist, recognized and anticipated a pandemic was approaching and knew what needed to be done to protect the American people. Bright repeatedly made efforts to raise concerns with the Administration that led to his remov...
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) questioned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler on the Administration’s proposed rule on fuel economy standards and its inaction to address PFAS contamination nationwide and establish a national drinking water standard.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) pressed US Health and Human services Secretary Alex Azar on what the Administration is doing to ensure the United States does not run out of respirators that can prevent a person from inhaling infective particles. According to HHS, 65 percent of the 300 million N95 are manufactured in China and Mexico.
