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An open seat, a toss-up race, good candidates: You can't beat the race for Dave Trott's seat if you're a political junkie. Michigan's 11th Congressional District: This crowded race is all a political junkie could ask for An open seat, a toss-up race, good candidates: You can't beat the race for Dave Trott's seat if you're a political junkie.
In this April 30, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speaks to reporters after holding a roundtable meeting with veterans in Lansing, Mich. In a statement released Friday, July 13, 2018, Stabenow said she will oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Both of Michigan's United States senators announced today they will oppose President Trump's choice to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The news that Democrats Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters will oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh 's nomination is hardly a surprise.
SAN FRANCISCO California technology analyst Brian Solis was having a conversation with a friend while the two were driving through Texas. His friend was buying a ranch in Texas but was having trouble with the financing because it was considered a "barndominium."
Do you think Sean Hannity's association with Michael Cohen will spell serious touble for the popular talk show host and commentator? FILE - This Feb. 11, 2014, aerial file photo shows a view of the Mackinac Bridge, which spans a 5-mile-wide freshwater channel called the Straits of Mackinac that separates Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan said Friday, April 13, 2018, that the flow of crude oil through twin pipelines through the Straits should be suspended until authorities determine how severely they were damaged by what may have been a ship anchor strike.
As Colorado Springs next week prepares to host the premier global meeting of the space industry with such featured speakers as Vice President Michael Pence, concerns are growing that our state - and, in fact, the nation - is dangerously vulnerable to massive solar storms. Colorado is a national leader in the aerospace industry.
Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths. Is Moscow interested in cutting or tapping the cables? Does it want the West to worry it might? Is there a more innocent explanation? Unsurprisingly, Russia isn't saying.
Amid multiple investigations and controversies over the cost of travel by Trump administration officials, two senators are asking the Office of Management and Budget to provide more detail about the administration's policies on travel spending. Several members of Trump's cabinet have been under scrutiny for the cost of their travel and other expensive purchases.
The mother of a woman killed when a speeding Amtrak train hurtled from the tracks in May 2015 told a Senate committee on Thursday that she is seething over the prospect of more delays in installing speed controls that could have prevented that wreck and dozens of others. Technology executive Rachel Jacobs was among eight passengers killed when the Washington-to-New York train crashed in Philadelphia.
An aerial view of the site of an early morning train crash on Feb. 4 between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, SC. The Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train in the early morning darkness Sunday, killing at least two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said.
The company that failed to deliver nearly all of the hot meals it promised to Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria plagiarized the bid that won it the $156 million contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to a letter penned by three senators this week. Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Gary Peters of Michigan say that Tribute Contracting LLC - which lost its contract in October after just 20 days because it had delivered only 50,000 of the 30 million meals promised - lifted paragraphs from two other companies related to logistics and delivery.
While Democrats didn't land a deal on immigration, the recent agreement to reopen the government nonetheless laid the groundwork for a potential Senate floor debate. "We're very pleased with how it worked out," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Tuesday about the short-lived government shutdown, which drew attention to the standoff over the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program .
Auto manufacturers have been working on technology for self-driving cars for several years and are testing these vehicles on the roads. But the bills from the House and the Senate signal the federal government is ready to tackle the issue and modernize federal regulations to address the new technology.
Rep. Dan Kildee, second from left, is angling for a spot on the Ways and Means Committee now that fellow Michigan Rep. Sander M. Levin, second from right, isn't seeking re-election in 2018. Also pictured, from left, Virginia Rep. Robert C. Scott and Michigan Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow.
U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly praised passage of the bipartisan Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday. Donnelly reintroduced this bipartisan legislation in the Senate in August with Senators Pat Toomey , Tom Cotton , Joe Manchin , and Gary Peters .
Sen. Mark Warner in July introduced a bill that would give payday lenders a way to ignore state interest rate caps on consumer loans. A little over a year ago, Sen. Mark Warner addressed a small audience of political insiders at the Brookings Institution, one of the most prestigious think tanks in the nation's capital.
ST. IGNACE, Mich. - Michigan's U.S. senators want federal regulators to determine whether the company operating twin oil pipelines in a crucial Great Lakes waterway has violated safety requirements.
Legislation that could help usher in a new era of self-driving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill's sponsors agreed to compromises to address some concerns of safety advocates. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved the bill by a voice vote, a sign of broad, bipartisan support.
Two U.S. senators said late on Wednesday that they had reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at easing hurdles to getting self-driving cars to drivers. U.S. Senator John Thune, a Republican who chairs the Commerce Committee, and Senator Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said they had reached a deal on the legislation that would be voted on by the committee on Oct. 4. General Motors Co., Alphabet Inc., Ford Motor Co.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters toured the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., on his bike ride. The senator visited a rural airport to talk about President Donald Trump 's budget cuts to Essential Air Service , a government program enacted to guarantee that small communities maintain commercial airline service.