Press Releases
WARREN, MI - Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09), Vice Chair of the House Education & Labor Committee, today released the following statement regarding the announcement by North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and Ørsted in collaboration with the AFL-CIO of a Pioneering Partnership to Develop the
“By instituting a rule that makes it harder for institutional investors to shift capital into sustainable funds, President Trump’s Department of Labor is again showing its antipathy toward working people and utter disregard for the worsening environmental crisis that necessitates a fundamental transformation of our economy.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) today released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor (DOL) announcing a final rule making Environmental, Sustainable, Governance (ESG) investing more difficult for plan fiduciaries.
“As families continue to grapple with this once-in-a-lifetime health emergency, GOP senators have jeopardized the health care of millions.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) today released the following statement following the Senate’s vote to confirm a Justice to the United States Supreme Court with eight days remaining to vote in the presidential election:
“It is clear from yesterday’s vote that Senate Republicans haven’t moved beyond the cynicism preventing them from actually negotiating a COVID relief bill with Democrats, but there is still time to act.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) released the following statement calling on Republican lawmakers to pass comprehensive COVID relief legislation for the American people following the Senate’s vote on a standalone bill funding a loan program for small businesses without protecting workers, avoiding state and local budget cuts, and more:
“I am humbled to have had the opportunity to improve legislation to ensure the bills we pass work for the people of Michigan’s Ninth District.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) has been commended by the Chair of the House Committee on Rules, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02), for passing the second most amendments in the 116th Congress among freshman members of Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) today announced that President Donald Trump signed Rep. Levin’s VA Emergency Department Safety Planning Act into law on Saturday as part of the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act, a comprehensive mental health care reform bill for United States veterans.
WARREN, MI – Congressman Andy Levin today released the following statement after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the World Food Program the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize:
Mayor Taylor: When I talk with residents, when I talk with small businesses, the most important thing for them is certainty. In an uncertain future, what can we be certain about right now? And we don’t know, watching [the president’s] Twitter feed.”
WARREN, MI – Today, Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09), Vice Chair of the House Education & Labor Committee, hosted a virtual press call highlighting the urgent need for COVID-19 relief to address the ongoing public health and economic crises.