Debbie Stabenow
Debbie Stabenow
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Greer Stabenowis the senior United States Senator from Michigan and a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election to the U.S. Senate, she was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 8th congressional district from 1997 to 2001. She previously served as a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners, Michigan House of Representatives, and Michigan Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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I can't imagine we would send troops into battle overseas and the radios didn't work,
The last thing we should be doing is cutting the resources our local police officers depend on to fight violent crime.
This is a question of being responsible and having the right values and priorities, ... I think adding massive debt to the people of our country is not responsible.
The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.
The lack of this communication for America's first responders has put them and put all of us -- all of our communities -- in danger,
This report highlights the urgent need for the president and the EPA to enforce our treaty with Canada and stop the trash right now.
There has to be a major restructuring of how we fund health care and all that takes is political will.
You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.
We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
We have come a long way. There is a long way to go, but I think the decisions are better made as women are participating.
It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.