Debbie Stabenow
Debbie Stabenow
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Greer Stabenowis the senior United States Senator from Michigan and a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election to the U.S. Senate, she was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 8th congressional district from 1997 to 2001. She previously served as a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners, Michigan House of Representatives, and Michigan Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.
For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.
So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.
The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time.
It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.
This report highlights the urgent need for the president and the EPA to enforce our treaty with Canada and stop the trash right now.
There has to be a major restructuring of how we fund health care and all that takes is political will.
We need to encourage drug companies to spend more on medical research than market research.
need assurance that they are not being preyed upon by unfair and potentially illegal pricing.
The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.
We believe we need to tackle this problem with the same sense of urgency felt by our seniors who are forced to choose between medicine and food.