Posts tagged with "Debbie Dingell"

Dingell releases updates to legislation on Drunk Driving Act COMMUNITY

Dingell releases updates to legislation on Drunk Driving Act

September 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) released updates to her legislation designed to reduce drunk driving deaths across the country. The updated Honoring Abbas Family Legacy to Terminate (HALT) Drunk Driving Act will require the commercialization of and implement standards for passive alcohol...
Lawmakers condemn planned anti-Muslim events at Bloomfield Hills church COMMUNITY

Lawmakers condemn planned anti-Muslim events at Bloomfield Hills church

September 7th, 20190 BLOOMFIELD HILLS - U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Andy Levin (D-Bloomfield Township) have issued a joint statement condemning two anti-Muslim events that are planned to take place at the Bloomfield Hills Baptist Church on Wednesday and Thursday. One event, named "9/11 Forgotten," will host a talk by Pastor and former...
Political, community and religious leaders unite against hate in Dearborn COMMUNITY

Political, community and religious leaders unite against hate in Dearborn

September 1st, 20190 DEARBORN – U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn), Andy Levin (D-Warren) and Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud joined members of community and non-profit associations to unite against hateful rhetoric on Thursday. The rally was hosted by Take On Hate, a non-profit organization, and was organized and...
Dingell announces grant for automated vehicle research at U of M Local

Dingell announces grant for automated vehicle research at U of M

February 16th, 20191 ANN ARBOR – On Friday,  Feb. 1, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (De-Dearborn) announced that the University of Michigan will receive a $2,574,300 grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers program. The grant continues funding for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation. CCAT...
Dingell appointed to health subcommittee on Energy and Commerce Committee U.S.A

Dingell appointed to health subcommittee on Energy and Commerce Committee

January 22nd, 20190  WASHINGTON, DC – On Tuesday U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) was appointed to a seat on the Health Subcommittee on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in the 116th Congress. She adds this subcommittee assignment to other assignments on the Environment and Climate Change, Consumer Protection and Commerce, and...
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell introduces the “Abbas Stop Drunk Driving Act” COMMUNITY

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell introduces the “Abbas Stop Drunk Driving Act”

January 11th, 20190 WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Debbie Dingell has introduced the Abbas Stop Drunk Driving Act. The legislation would require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to set a federal motor vehicle safety standard that would require all new vehicles to be equipped with an ignition interlock device. DOT would have to complete this standard...
Local attorney helps Dearborn Heights man gets citizenship after 50 years of denial Local

Local attorney helps Dearborn Heights man gets citizenship after 50 years of denial

December 8th, 20180 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For Jim Pawlukiewicz, a Vietnam veteran who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, the immigration and citizenship process was a 50-year nightmare of never-ending bureaucracy, red tape and roadblocks. However, Pawlukiewicz, 72, finally had his breakthrough this May thanks in large part to his simple refusal to...
Judge dismisses lawsuit by family of Muslim Marine who died during boot camp COMMUNITY

Judge dismisses lawsuit by family of Muslim Marine who died during boot camp

December 1st, 20181 TAYLOR, MI — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the family of Raheel Siddiqui, a 20-year old Marine who died two years ago in boot camp at Parris island, S.C.  U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow ruled Tuesday that claims related to injuries to active duty military personnel belong in military courts according the Feres...
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell elected to leadership position, appoints new chief of staff U.S.A

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell elected to leadership position, appoints new chief of staff

December 1st, 20180 WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn) was voted by her colleagues on Nov. 29 to serve as co-chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Dingell will work with DPCC Chair David Cicilline (D-RI) and fellow Co-Chairs Matt Cartwright (D-PA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) to develop the communications strategy...
AAPAC issues across-the-board endorsements as Election Day approaches Elections

AAPAC issues across-the-board endorsements as Election Day approaches

October 19th, 20181 DEARBORN – Several key races are brewing that could alter the course municipalities and the state take as they face challenges like improving public education, fixing dilapidated infrastructure and lowering insurance premiums. After interviews and deliberations on October 17, The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC)...
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell proposes legislation to fight scam phone calls COMMUNITY

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell proposes legislation to fight scam phone calls

October 4th, 20180 WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) introduced legislation to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tools to combat scam calls targeting vulnerable people. Last year the FTC received 4.8 million consumer complaints about robocalls and the number continues to rise. Scammers disregard the National Do Not Call...
Dearborn Heights, Ypsilanti fire departments to receive $1 million Local

Dearborn Heights, Ypsilanti fire departments to receive $1 million

August 27th, 20180 YPSILANTI – The Dearborn Heights and Ypsilanti Fire Departments will receive a combined $1 million grant to boost the number of firefighters in those communities. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) announced on Friday that the Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER) grants will go directly to the local fire...
My Muslim Vote rally in Dearborn motivates potential voters COMMUNITY

My Muslim Vote rally in Dearborn motivates potential voters

August 3rd, 20180 DEARBORN — Organizers at Sunday’s My Muslim Vote rally held outside the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn encouraged the Muslim community to participate in local and state elections. Nada Al-Hanooti, executive director of the Michigan chapter of Emgage, an organization that encourages Muslims to vote and was a...
ACCESS to host birthday party for Medicaid COMMUNITY

ACCESS to host birthday party for Medicaid

July 28th, 20180 DEARBORN — The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) will celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Medicaid on Monday, July 30, with a birthday cake and a roundtable discussion with members of the ACCESS team, clients, coalition partners, local elected officials and other stakeholders.  U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell...
Dingell, local experts hold healthcare forum in Dearborn COMMUNITY

Dingell, local experts hold healthcare forum in Dearborn

July 6th, 20180 DEARBORN – Local healthcare experts and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) held a town hall Monday on the state of healthcare and pre-existing conditions coverage and what it means for people in Michigan. Dingell joined Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation at the...
Officials' reactions to U.S. Supreme Court decision on Muslim Travel Ban U.S.A

Officials’ reactions to U.S. Supreme Court decision on Muslim Travel Ban

July 1st, 20180 Japanese American protesters: What happened to us should never happen again WASHINGTON/DEARBORN — Outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, many protesters held signs that read "No Muslim Ban" and "We Will Not Be Banned" as they protested the court's decision to uphold President Trump's travel ban. However, in the process —...
Dingell reacts to Supreme Court upholding Trump's Muslim Ban COMMUNITY

Dingell reacts to Supreme Court upholding Trump’s Muslim Ban

June 26th, 20180 WASHINGTON – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court upholding the Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban: “Today is a sad and disappointing day. From our earliest founding, the United States has been a land of opportunity for individuals seeking religious freedom....
Michigan officials, activists condemn anti-BDS bills as Gaza protest persist COMMUNITY

Michigan officials, activists condemn anti-BDS bills as Gaza protest persist

June 23rd, 20181 DEARBORN – As grisly images from “Right of Return” protests along the Gaza-Israeli border become increasingly harder for the American public to ignore, lawmakers across the U.S. are reacting with anti-BDS bills that seek to hamper efforts to boycott the nation’s most significant ally in the Mediterranean – shifting the...
Michigan, world leaders slam Trump for abandoning Iran nuclear deal Local

Michigan, world leaders slam Trump for abandoning Iran nuclear deal

May 8th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump on Tuesday pulled the United States out of an international nuclear deal with Iran, raising the risk of conflict in the Middle East, upsetting European allies and casting uncertainty over global oil supplies. Trump said in a televised address from the White House that he would reimpose U.S....
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