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On National Minimum Wage Day (10/10), Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today renewed his call for Congress to immediately act on legislation he has cosponsored, H.R. 1010, to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10.
Kildee, Partnering with Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement and City of Saginaw to Promote Safe Firearms Handling and Storage Practices
Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) will distribute free gun locks to residents of the Fifth Congressional District and hold a press conference on Wednesday, August 27, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. ET at the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office.
Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) toured two new mid-Michigan startup companies today to promote locally-owned small businesses. The site visits to Michigan’s Greatest Fudge in Burton and the Bancroft Wine and Martini Bar in Saginaw were a part of ‘Startup Day Across America,’ a national effort dedicated to supporting new small businesses and local entrepreneurs.
Fudge is Bob Peterson's business, and business is good.
Peterson's ever-expanding family business, Michigan's Greatest Fudge, has been cooking up delectable, handmade Mackinac-style fudge in its kitchen for one year and was visited by U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Twp., Tuesday, Aug. 5 as part of Startup Across America Day.
"This is a homegrown economy and it's good to see a family owned business be so successful," Rep. Kildee said during his visit.
Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives disapproving of the decision by Speaker of the House John Boehner (OH-08) and House Republican leadership to forgo legislative action on a multitude of items awaiting a vote in favoring of a dangerous lawsuit against the President intended as an election-year gimmick.
A video of Congressman Kildee’s floor speech can be viewed here.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) today read the stories of long-term unemployed Michiganders outside the U.S. Capitol to highlight their continued struggles of out of work Americans and to push for a vote in Congress to immediately extend emergency unemployment insurance. The event centered around older and younger Americans who continue to struggle to make ends meet as congressional inaction continues.
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee will host "Witness Wednesdays" to share stories of people who have been on long-term unemployment and push to extend unemployment benefits.
Witness Wednesdays is set to take place at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, and is co-hosted by the Center for Effective Government.
Kildee, D-Flint Township, will be joined by other Members of Congress and organizations including Social Security Works, Generations United, the Union of the Unemployed, the U.S. Student's Association, Bread for the World, the American Youth Policy Forum and the Pension Rights Center.
U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Flint) visited the recently renovated Tawas City Shoreline Park on Monday, as he met with city officials to tour the area and see first-hand the improvements which were made with the 2013 Downtown Infrastructure Grant (DIG) awarded to the city for this project.
The event was part of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s (MEDC) celebration of the 40th anniversary of Community Development Block Grants (CDBG).
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, toured Genesee Packaging Tuesday, July 1, to ask plant managers what manufacturing businesses in Michigan need to create more jobs and help the state thrive.
Kildee visited the plant to see Michigan manufacturing first hand and to raise support for the Make it in America jobs agenda and his bill H.R. 4831, the 21st Century Manufacturing Skills and Jobs Act, he introduced to Congress June 10.
"It's important to me to see how the industry works, what the challenges are," Kildee said while he toured the facility.
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee continues to push for an extension on unemployment benefits with the help of other legislators.
Kildee, D-Flint Township, recently sent a letter to the incoming House Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, requesting a meeting to discuss a way to immediately extend emergency unemployment insurance for the 3.1 million Americans who have been cut off from their benefits since Congress failed to renew them last December.