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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today released the following statement in advance of Labor Day, which is Monday, September 5, 2016.
“Labor Day is a special day in Michigan. It is a holiday to remember the hard-fought victories that labor earned for all of us in the workplace, which we must never take for granted.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today announced that SkySpecs of Ann Arbor will receive a Small Business Voucher from the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. SkySpecs deploys autonomous drones for inspections of wind turbines. Working with Sandia National Labs, the project will focus on the validation of blade damage data to assist with the development of machine learning algorithms for automated identification and classification.
ANN ARBOR, MI – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today joined Ducks Unlimited and local conservation leaders at the Washtenaw Food Hub to tour a wetland restoration project and call for the reauthorization of the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement regarding the retirement of DTE Energy’s coal-fired power plant in Trenton. The closing is part of DTE’s plan to retire eight coal-fired generators at three plants by 2023 to transition to more modern, cleaner sources of energy generation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, released the following statement after the committee approved H.R. 5278, the PROMESA Act, a bipartisan bill that addresses the debt crisis in Puerto Rico.
ANN ARBOR, MI — The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor businesses are at the forefront of innovation, says U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, but lawmakers must make comprehensive reforms and invest more in research if they want them to succeed.
That's what Dingell, D-Dearborn, said after an Innovation Agenda 2.0 roundtable discussion with other lawmakers and local business leaders at the Ann Arbor SPARK offices on Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor on Friday.
ANN ARBOR, MI – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) convened a summit of regional leaders in business, manufacturing and academia to discuss policies that Congress should consider to support innovation across the country and ensure that the United States stays at the forefront of innovation and technology in the world. Dingell was joined by U.S.
More than 30,000 Michigan current and retired workers avoided pension cuts — for now — when the Treasury Department rejected a Teamsters Central State Pension Plan proposal that would have started in July.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a letter to members of Congress released Friday that while the decision blocks the pending pension cuts for 273,000 current and retired workers across the country, it does not resolve the issue because the pension plan remains severely underfunded and is projected to become insolvent within the next 10 years.
DEARBORN, MI – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) released the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department rejected an application by the Central States Pension Fund to cut retiree benefits by as much as 70 percent.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Joe Barton (R-TX), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Joe Wilson (R-SC) today announced the formation of the bipartisan House Smart Transportation Caucus dedicated to advancing new innovation in connected and autonomous vehicles.