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Congressman Dan Kildee and Congressman Fred Upton Tuesday sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler pushing the agency to strengthen drinking water safeguards for per and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAs).
On July 17, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and reproductive rights allies rallied at the Capitol to oppose President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Leader Pelosi and other pro-choice members of Congress detailed the threat Kavanaugh poses to women’s reproductive health and the Affordable Care Act. Reps.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) will hold a news conference to discuss the 170th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention at 10 a.m. in the House Triangle.
Several Michigan members of Congress are sending a letter to the Trump administration. They're requesting stronger safeguards for dangerous chemicals in drinking water. A recent Harvard study found six million Americans are drinking water contaminated with a group of chemicals known as PFAS. PFAs chemicals have turned up in different parts of Michigan stemming from decades-old contamination.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Tuesday called Russia a clear adversary to the United States, but he stopped short of criticizing sympathetic comments by President Donald Trump.
A bipartisan group of Congressional delegates from Michigan and Pennsylvania want the Environmental Protection Agency to "immediately" revise and broaden its health guidance for PFAS chemicals and incorporate new a toxicological study that significantly lowers levels at which exposure is considered safe. Democrats on the letter include U.S. Reps.
Michigan’s two U.S. senators are reacting to Monday’s meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting, which took place in Helsinki, Finland, was for many in the U.S. House and Senate an opportunity for Trump to hold Putin accountable for U.S. national intelligence findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
A group of Democratic Congressional leaders are set to tour Flint to find out more about the effects of the water crisis and try to find out what is needed as the city moves forward in its recovery process.
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), who last month was appointed to help lead Congress’ largest child welfare coalition, successfully introduced a controversial amendment yesterday that would enable faith-based providers to choose what families to serve based on religious beliefs.
The U.S. House of Representatives on July 10 passed bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) that would improve how families in his home state and across America can pursue international adoptions.