Hillary Scholten MI-03

Current Position: US Representative of MI 3rd District since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
District:   greater Grand Rapids and Muskegon areas, including portions of Kent, Muskegon, and Ottawa counties. Redistricting removed Barry, Calhoun, and Ionia counties.
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Scholten was a judicial law clerk and attorney adviser for the Board of Immigration Appeals from 2013 to 2017. When the Obama administration ended, she moved back to Grand Rapids and became a staff attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.

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Debbie Dingell MI-06

Current Position: US Representative of MI 6th District (formerly the 12th District) since 2015
Affiliation: Democrat
District: In 2022, the district was redrawn to be centered around Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County, as well as western and southern Wayne County, small part of southwestern Oakland County, and the city of Milan in Monroe County  
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She is the widow of John Dingell, her predecessor in the seat, who holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. She worked as a consultant to the American Automobile Policy Council. She was a superdelegate for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dingell is active in several Michigan and Washington, D.C., charities and serves on a number of charitable boards. She is a founder and past chair of the National Women’s Health Resource Center and the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).[4] She is also a member of the board of directors for Vital Voices Global Partnership.

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Today, the bipartisan @January6thCmte is holding its first hearing with @CapitolPolice & @DCPoliceDept
officers whose lives were threatened by violent insurrectionists. We owe it to them to get the clear facts about that dark day.

‘This Was A Wakeup Call To The Country,’ Says Rep. Debbie Dingell | TODAY

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Kristen McDonald Rivet MI-08

Kristen McDonald Rivet (born July 11, 1970) is an American politician who is a member of the Michigan Senate for the 35th district. She was elected in November 2022 and took office on January 1, 2023.

McDonald Rivet was born on July 11, 1970, in Portland, Michigan,[1] where she was raised with her fraternal twin sister Karen McDonald. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts in education and public administration from the University of Michigan–Flint.

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Haley Stevens MI-11

Current Position: US Representative of MI11th District since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
District: north of Detroit, comprising most of urbanized central Oakland County.   
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She worked on Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008, beginning with Clinton before the primary.

In 2009, Steven Rattner hired Stevens to join the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, and she served as his chief of staff. She worked for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute in Chicago, returning to Michigan in 2017.

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Today, my amendment with @repmeijer to the @nist reauthorization bill passed through @HouseScience. This addition to the bill will provide funding to expand MEP center’s workforce development efforts and will promote the resiliency of domestic supply chains!

Haley Stevens Gives Passionate Speech About ‘Scourge’ Of Gun Violence

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Rashida Tlaib MI-12

Current Position: US Representative of MI 13th District since 2019
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: State Delegate from 2009 – 2014
District: centered around the cities of Detroit and Dearborn  
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Tlaib became the first woman of Palestinian descent in Congress, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan legislature, and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress (the other being Ilhan Omar). Tlaib is a member of The Squad, an informal group of eight (four until the 2020 elections) U.S. representatives on the left wing of the Democratic Party.

After leaving the state legislature, Tlaib worked at Sugar Law Center, a Detroit nonprofit that provides free legal representation for workers.

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One time survival checks don’t cut it when the bills haven’t stopped coming in every month. We need monthly, recurring, $2,000 survival checks

Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Growing Up in Detroit, Holocaust Comments and Fighting Poverty

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Shri Thanedar MI-13

Current Position: US Representative of MI 13th District since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
District: Wayne County, Michigan.  
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Thanedar served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. He was also a candidate in the Democratic primary for governor of Michigan in the 2018 election. His political platform included a $15 minimum wage, public education reform, infrastructure improvements, and increased government transparency.

He took out a loan to buy Chemir in 1991 for $75,000. By 2005, Chemir’s revenues were $16 million and it employed 160 people, including 40 PhD chemists. 

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