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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today voted for the House amendment to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, a bipartisan package of bills aimed at preventing and treating opioid addiction. The opioid epidemic is taking a toll on communities across the country with 78 Americans dying every day from an opioid overdose. The legislation passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 400 to 5, and will now be considered by a conference committee to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate bills.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) joined Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) in introducing “Jessie’s Law,” a bipartisan bill named after Michigan resident Jessie Grubb who tragically died earlier this year of an opioid overdose. Jessie’s Law would help ensure doctors have access to a consenting patient’s prior history of addiction in order to make fully informed care and treatment decisions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), a member of the House Budget Committee, today asked her colleagues to take one nonpartisan vote to meet a moral obligation to the people of Flint. She called on members of the committee to support an amendment she offered to the FY2017 budget resolution that would designate $457.5 million in emergency funding for Flint in 2016 to address the ongoing drinking water crisis and assist families affected by lead exposure. The amendment would require matching funds from the state.
ANN ARBOR, MI — As local officials in Ann Arbor continue to raise concerns that Michigan is years behind on updating the state's cleanup standards for 1,4-dioxane, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell is weighing in on the issue.
Dingell sent an open letter to Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Director Keith Creagh on Thursday, calling for the DEQ to finalize stricter dioxane cleanup standards, something it was required by state law to do by December 2013.
It's been less than three months since Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, died following a 15-month battle with an inoperable brain tumor.
But his legacy lives on.
Chad's passing in November came at the hands of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, an extremely rare type of pediatric brain cancer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Congressman Fred Upton (MI-06) traveled to Southeast Michigan today to meet with patient groups, families, doctors and researchers to discuss the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) and the hope it will bring to patients living with devastating diseases. The 21st Century Cures Act was approved overwhelmingly by the House of Representatives in July 2015 and is awaiting consideration in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Congressman Tim Murphy (PA-18), co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Cancer Prevention Caucus, today joined scientists, doctors, advocates and industry experts to mark the 5th annual National Cancer Prevention Day. The event, hosted by Less Cancer, focused on the latest developments in the field of cancer prevention.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today voted against legislation that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act, taking away affordable health coverage from 22 million Americans and stripping live-saving cancer screenings from women across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) today joined colleagues in the House to adopt, by a vote of 316 to 113, the fiscal year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations bill, which funds the government for 2016.
“This comprehensive funding bill isn’t perfect, but it represents a bipartisan compromise that has many victories for America’s working families.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-12th District) is thanking negotiators for preventing a “poison-pill” policy rider from being included in the 2016 government funding bill that would have exempted electronic cigarettes from being regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Following numerous reports of injuries caused by defective e-cigarettes, Dingell wrote a letter last August to FDA Acting Commissioner Stephen Ostroff urging him to finalize a proposed rule to regulate the products as soon as possible.