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Candidates › MI-06 race › 2025–2026
Debbie Dingell
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, MI-06
Representative since 2015
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- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Michigan US House 6
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- ENVIRONMENT
- HEALTH CARE
- LABOR
- AFFORDABILITY
- ECONOMY
- In Congress
- Representative since 2015 · votes with their party 99% of the time. See the record · Office phone 202-225-4071
- Money
- $1.5M raised, $1.4M spent, $455.8K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 17% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 57% from Michigan · largest committee giver DYKEMA GOSSETT FEDERAL PAC, $10K
- Outside groups
- $2.1K supporting Dingell
- Backed by
- NRDC · Defend the Vote · MEA and 31 more. As the campaign lists them
- Sponsored most in
- Health, Environmental Protection, Public Lands and Natural Resources
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Climate Change, as the experts have proven, is a real problem that requires pro-active solutions from the federal government.
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Throughout her time in Congress, Debbie has worked tirelessly to protect the environment and fight the damaging effects of climate change.
As the Co-Chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, Debbie has been one of the biggest advocates for the protection of the Great Lakes. She has successfully secured funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and has also led bipartisan efforts to protect the Great Lakes ecosystem, introducing legislation to combat invasive species that threaten native fish populations and Michigan’s fishing economy.
As a Co-Chair on the PFAS Task Force, she continues working to protect communities from the threat of these forever chemicals, including through her work fighting to have man-made PFAS chemicals declared as a hazardous substance, removing PFAS from food packaging, and banning them in cosmetics.
She has introduced legislation to help protect endangered wildlife and public lands, successfully fought to get lead out of pipes, and she has championed legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, expand clean energy technologies, and ensure the transition to a clean-energy economy creates good-paying American jobs while protecting our planet for future generations.
After years of hard work, Debbie’s advocacy for Washtenaw County directly led to the EPA’s decision to add the contaminated Gelman Sciences, Inc. site to the Superfund National Priorities List.
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I believe that if you live in America you have a right to quality healthcare.
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Debbie believes that if you live in America, you have the right to quality healthcare. However, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ “Big Ugly Bill” enacted the largest Medicaid cuts in history, ripping healthcare away from 15 million people. And on top of this, Republicans’ refusal to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits have dramatically driven-up health care costs for more than 24 million Americans. Debbie has heard directly from constituents who cannot afford their health insurance anymore and have decided to go without.
Debbie firmly believes you should be able to go to the doctor when you need to go to the doctor and get the medicine and treatment you need. When you have been prescribed life-saving drugs, you shouldn’t have to ration doses just to afford them. That’s why Debbie is a Co-Chair of the Medicare for All Caucus and a House lead of the Medicare for All Act. She is fighting to protect pre-existing condition protections gained through the Affordable Care Act, and is working to pass multiple pieces of legislation with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to lower the costs of prescription drugs, speed up access to treatments, and ensure there is a strong healthcare workforce ready to provide the critical services patients rely on in every community.
As a member of the Subcommittee of Health on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Debbie has been one of the strongest advocates in Congress for expanding health care coverage, lowering the sky-high costs of prescription drugs, and making medical research a national priority.
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Our economic foundations feel uncertain to many and we must fight hard to create jobs and stabilize the region
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President Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one, but the policies ushered in by him and Congressional Republicans have only made the affordability crisis worse. Americans are struggling to afford everyday necessities like groceries, the cost to rent or buy a home continues to skyrocket and put housing out of reach, and families are struggling to heat their homes amid rising utility costs that are only being made worse by the conflict overseas.
Debbie knows hardworking families are facing a real affordability crisis. She is fighting to ensure your taxpayer dollars are being used to lower the high cost of living, fix the broken healthcare system, and clean up corruption.
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Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States is losing jobs and unemployment is on the rise, meaning Americans are getting stuck paying higher prices they cannot afford, all while jobs are simultaneously disappearing. This isn’t right.
Debbie is fighting to keep good-paying jobs in the United States by supporting our domestic manufacturing industry, including the automotive industry in Southeast Michigan. For too long, poor trade deals, outsourcing, and the decline of unionization have hollowed out the industrial base. Rebuilding American manufacturing and protecting workers will always be one of her top priorities. This includes by also renegotiating the USMCA, and ensuring tariffs are implemented in a way that helps–and not harms–our domestic industries. She’s also committed to ensuring that emerging companies and entrepreneurs in the region have the opportunities and resources needed to explore innovative business ideas and position themselves for future success.
Throughout her time in Congress, Debbie has also worked hard to preserve the dignity of work and expand economic opportunities in her district. As a true friend of organized labor, Debbie leads the Labor Caucus and fights for workers every day. She supports the rights of unions and recognizes the importance of collective bargaining, which is why she cosponsored the PRO Act to protect the basic right for workers to join a union. Debbie has proudly joined UAW workers on the picket line as they courageously advocated for what they deserve.
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The United States is a land of opportunity. Our history has been written by generations of immigrants who have come to our borders looking for the promise of a better life. They have shaped our culture, our economy, and our national story, helping to make us the greatest of nations.
However, federal immigration enforcement in this administration is a real issue. ICE has instilled deep fear in communities across the nation, including right here in Southeast Michigan. The President promised to remove violent criminals, yet we continue to see that is not who ICE is targeting.
Debbie is fighting to make serious reforms that ensure ICE follows the same rules as other law enforcement agencies, like no masks, mandatory body cameras, and requiring judicial warrants. Debbie has also long been a strong advocate for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. She co-sponsored the Keep Families Together Act and the Family Reunification Act.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE has decimated the Department of Education and all the programs it offered. Then through the Big Ugly Bill, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have shuttered Head Start, upend federal student aid, and hampered students’ ability to afford and access higher education.
Debbie strongly believes that an investment in education is an investment in our future. She is proud to support our public schools, public universities, and teachers, and she is committed to promoting educational opportunities from Pre-K to higher education and older adults.
Debbie introduced the Safe Equitable Campus Resources and Education Act to ensure individuals with disabilities are included in campus planning and response to incidents of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. She has fought to restore, protect, and expand Title IX protections, and she is a cosponsor of the American Teacher Act, which would help support efforts to increase teacher salaries to a minimum of $60,000 per year.
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Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders rely on Social Security and Medicare. These men and women worked hard for decades and paid their fair share to support these vital programs. Debbis is a co-sponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act, a bill that increases Social Security’s vital benefits while making the system financially strong throughout the 21st century.
Debbie believes all seniors should be able to live and age with dignity. She has championed several efforts to expand access to home- and community-based services to help seniors and individuals living with disabilities access care in the comfort and safety of their own homes. As the largest payor of long term care in America, she is also fighting back against the draconian Medicaid cuts made through the Big Ugly Bill, which are putting long term care further out of reach for seniors across the country.
As a member of the Subcommittee of Health on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, and Co-Chair of the Long Term Care Caucus, Debbie is fighting for policies that allow seniors to retire with dignity, increase access to proper medical and long-term care, and secure the benefits they’ve earned.
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We must ensure that our nation’s veterans receive the services they have earned when they get home — from healthcare, including mental healthcare, to education and training so they can find civilian jobs, to fighting the scourge of homelessness that hits our veteran community so hard. This is our responsibility.
From the beginning of her time in Congress, Debbie has fought for veterans in the district. At the request of Debbie, the VA Inspector General initiated an investigation into the Detroit VA Medical Center amid reports of mismanagement and poor veteran outcomes. Based on its findings, Debbie has introduced legislation to improve the quality of care at VA medical facilities by ensuring neutrality in the VA’s peer review process.
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Everyone deserves the same rights and protections under the law regardless of who they are or who they love. Discrimination in housing, employment, and other facets of American life is immoral and must be stopped.
As a proud member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, she fights for equality for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. She is a co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which passed the House last Congress and prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a variety of areas. She supports the PRIDE Act of 2025, which requires the use of inclusive language in U.S. tax code.
Additionally, Debbie was proud to serve as one of the leading advocates to help renew the Violence Against Women Act, which included provisions to help protect transgender people from violence.
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