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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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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell represents the 12th District of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before being elected to Congress, Debbie was the Chair of the Wayne State University (WSU) Board of Governors. An active civic and community leader, she is a recognized national advocate for women and children.
For more than 30 years Debbie served one of Michigan’s largest employers, the General Motors (GM) Corporation, where she was President of the GM Foundation and a senior executive responsible for public affairs. In her commitment to job creation, Debbie led the effort to bring the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a $20 million partnership designed to help create jobs and economic growth, to southeast Michigan. She is a past chair of the Manufacturing Initiative at the American Automotive Policy Council.
With values instilled by her Catholic education, Debbie’s activism took root in her passion for issues important to women and children. She successfully fought to have women included in federally-funded health research, and advocated for greater awareness of issues directly related to women’s health, including breast cancer and women’s heart health. 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). She has served on numerous boards related to women’s issues including the advisory boards for the NIH Panel for Women’s Research, the Michigan Women’s Economic Club, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the board of the Michigan Women’s Foundation. She was a co-founder of both the first Race for the Cures in Michigan and in Washington, D.C.
Debbie has led a number of efforts and initiatives related to young people and education stemming from her role as a WSU Governor and co-chair of the Children’s Leadership Council, a business-led advocacy group that promotes investment in early childhood education. She chaired the Michigan Infant Mortality Task Force, the Baby Your Baby public education campaign that reduced infant mortality rates in Michigan, and has served on the board of Michigan’s Children, the only statewide independent voice working to ensure that public policies are made in the best interest of children from cradle to career. She was appointed by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to serve on the Early Childhood Investment Corporation and the Cherry Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth.
Much of Debbie’s recent work has been focused on ethical issues and social responsibility as they relate to government and business. She co-chaired One United Michigan, which sought to preserve and support programs that ensure equal opportunity in Michigan. She chairs the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, a statewide organization that brings business, labor and government together to find commonality on issues. She continues to serve on the Parade Company board of directors of which she is past chair, where she helped save America’s Thanksgiving Parade, an important Detroit tradition. A known “bridge-builder,” she continues to promote and lead efforts toward greater understanding among people of differing points of views and backgrounds.
Debbie is a respected voice in Michigan. She co-hosted Detroit Public Television’s “Am I Right,” regularly served as a panelist on “Flashpoint,” a public affairs program on WDIV-TV4 Detroit, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Michigan by Crain’s Detroit Business.
Debbie resides in Dearborn. She holds both a B.S.F.S. in Foreign Services and an M.S. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University.
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Full Name: Debbie Insley Dingell
Gender: Female
Family: Widowed: John
Birth Date: 11/23/1953
Birth Place: Detroit, MI
Home City: Dearborn, MI
Religion: Catholic
Source: MS, Liberal Studies, Georgetown University, 1996 BSFS, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1975 Representative, United States House of Representatives, District 6, 2023-Present Representative, United States House of Representatives, District 12, 2015-2023 Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Michigan, District 6, 2022 President, D2 Strategies, present Former Co-Host, “Am I Right”, Detroit Public Television Consultant, American Automobile Policy Council Former Vice Chair/President, General Motors Foundation 116 Cannon House Office Building 19855 West Outer Drive 301 West Michigan Avenue Email: Government Source: none Source: Open Secrets Congresswoman Dingell serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the House Committee on Natural Resources, and the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. On Energy and Commerce, Dingell is a member of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, the Subcommittee on Health, and the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. On Natural Resources, Dingell is a member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries. In addition, Congresswoman Dingell serves in the following leadership roles: Chair of the Heartland Caucus Co-Chair of the New Economy Task Force, one of five House Democratic Caucus Jobs for America Task Forces Co-Chair of the 5G Caucus She also serves on the following caucuses and working groups: Agriculture and Rural America Task Force Source: Government page Source: Government page Source: Wikipedia The district is currently represented by Democrat Debbie Dingell, who previously represented the old 12th district. Deborah Ann Dingell (/ˈdɪŋɡəl/; née Insley; November 23, 1953) is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2015, representing the state’s 6th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she succeeded her late husband, John Dingell, who was the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. Dingell is active in several organizations in Michigan and Washington, D.C., and serves on a number of 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).[1] She is also a member of the board of directors for Vital Voices Global Partnership.[2] She is a 1975 graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She worked as a consultant to the American Automobile Policy Council.[3] She was a superdelegate for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.[4][5] Descended from one of the Fisher brothers, owners of Fisher Body,[6] from 1919 a part of General Motors, she has served as president[7] of the General Motors Foundation and as executive director of Global Community Relations and Government Relations at GM. She married Representative John Dingell in 1981.[8] She had grown up as a Republican, but became a Democrat soon after marrying Dingell. Their marriage lasted 38 years until her husband’s death on February 7, 2019, at the age of 92. Like her husband, she is a Catholic.[9] She is a member of the Democratic National Committee from Michigan and chaired Vice President Al Gore‘s campaign in Michigan in 2000. In 2004, she also helped secure the Michigan Democratic primary and general election vote for John Kerry in Michigan. In November 2006, Dingell was elected to Wayne State University‘s board of governors.[10] Dingell and Senator Carl Levin were proponents of moving up Michigan’s presidential primary before February 5 in an attempt to garner greater political influence for Michigan during the 2008 Democratic primaries.[11] This resulted in Michigan almost losing its delegates’ votes in the Democratic National Convention.[12] When Carl Levin announced his retirement from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term in 2015, Dingell indicated that she was interested in running for his seat.[13] When former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm declined to run for the seat, a Politico writer declared Dingell to be one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination, alongside Representative Gary Peters.[14] She chose not to run, and Peters won the seat. Dingell indicated that she planned to run for her husband’s congressional seat after he announced his retirement.[15] On August 5, she won the Democratic primary. On November 4, she won the general election, defeating Republican Terry Bowman.[16] When Dingell was sworn in, she became the first U.S. non-widowed woman in Congress to succeed her husband. His father, John Dingell Sr., held Michigan’s 12th district for 22 years before his son won it. Altogether, the Dingells have represented this district and its predecessors for 89 consecutive years as of 2021.[17][18] The district was numbered as the 15th from 1933 to 1965, the 16th from 1965 to 2003, the 15th again from 2003 to 2013, the 12th from 2013 to 2023, and has been in the 6th since 2023. In 2018, Dingell introduced a law that would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to recall defective firearms. John Dingell was a key lawmaker who initially granted the firearms industry this exemption from the 1972 Consumer Product Safety Act that created the Consumer Product Safety Commission.[19] In July 2019, Dingell voted against a House resolution introduced by Representative Brad Schneider opposing efforts to boycott the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.[20] The resolution passed 398–17.[21] In April 2021, Dingell introduced the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act of 2021, a bill that would provide funding for conserving and protecting endangered and threatened species, strategies to do so, and wildlife-related recreational activities.[22] The bill passed the House by 230–190 on June 14, 2022.[23] In 2023, Dingell was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21 which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[24][25] After Dingell voted to impeach President Donald Trump, Trump attacked Dingell during a campaign rally in Battle Creek, musing that her late husband, might be in hell, saying of him, “Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know, I don’t know, maybe, maybe. But let’s assume he’s looking down.”[26] She was attending a bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus gathering when she was told of Trump’s remarks. Numerous members of both parties came to Dingell’s defense.[27] In her response to the incident, Dingell called for a return to civility, saying, “some things should be off limits.”[28] In her 2022 book Confidence Man, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote that Dingell received a call from a man claiming to be a reporter who asked whether she was “looking for an apology from Trump”. According to Haberman, “Dingell couldn’t shake the idea that his voice sounded like that of the forty-fifth president.”[29] Dingell voted to provide Israel with support following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.[36][37] Dingell voted with President Joe Biden’s stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.[38] Education
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Michigan’s 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southeast Michigan. 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.[3] In previous redistrictings, the 6th district consisted of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county.Wikipedia
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