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Key Issues
Making Health Care Affordable
Senator Stabenow is leading efforts to make health care affordable for Michigan families and businesses. The skyrocketing costs of health care are costing American jobs by making American manufacturers less competitive in a global marketplace where many of their competitors aren’t responsible for health care. Rising health care costs also make health care and insurance more expensive for everyone and threaten to add to the growing number of uninsured Americans. Senator Stabenow is working to make health care more affordable. Read More ...
Canadian Trash Update
In August of 2006, Senator Stabenow and Senator Levin entered into a ground breaking agreement with Ontario officials to phase out and end the dumping of 1.34 million metric tons of municipally-managed trash being dumped in Michigan each year, which is all the trash under the control of Toronto and other Ontario municipalities. Read More...
Preserving Michigan's Outdoor Heritage
Born in Gladwin and raised in Clare, Michigan’s outdoors has always been an important part of Debbie Stabenow’s life. Raising her own family in Michigan, she gets how important things like boating, fishing, camping, hunting and snowmobiling are to our way-of-life and to the economic livelihood of so many of our rural and coastal communities. Now in the U.S. Senate, she is fighting to preserve Michigan’s outdoor heritage, and the jobs and economic growth it brings to our state. Read More...
The Stabenow-Graham Trade Prosecutor Bill
Failure to enforce our trade agreements has cost the United States millions of jobs over the past 15 years. Our nation has lost nearly 3 million manufacturing jobs since 2000 and a quarter million jobs have been lost on account of Chinese counterfeit products alone. Several of our largest trading partners cheat the system to gain an unfair and illegal advantage. For instance, Japan uses shrewd tactics to keep the yen from rising. Effectively, this gives Japanese cars a $2,000 to $8,000 subsidy for each car it exports. It is also estimated that Chinese counterfeiting of automotive products costs the auto industry $12 billion in lost sales. Read More...
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