Deborah Ann Dingell is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been the US representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district since 2015.
20 Facts About Debbie Dingell
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Debbie Dingell is the widow of John Dingell, her predecessor in the seat, who holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in US history.
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Debbie Dingell worked as a consultant to the American Automobile Policy Council.
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Debbie Dingell was a superdelegate for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Debbie Dingell is active in several Michigan and Washington, DC, charities and serves on a number of charitable boards.
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Debbie Dingell is a founder and past chair of the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health.
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Debbie Dingell is a member of the board of directors for Vital Voices Global Partnership.
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Debbie Dingell is a 1975 graduate of the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Debbie Dingell married Representative John Dingell, 27 years her senior, in 1981; she was his second wife.
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Debbie Dingell had grown up as a Republican, but became a Democrat soon after marrying Dingell.
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Debbie Dingell is a member of the Democratic National Committee from Michigan and chaired Vice President Al Gore's campaign in Michigan in 2000.
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In November 2006, Debbie Dingell was elected to Wayne State University's board of governors.
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When Carl Levin announced his retirement from the US Senate at the end of his term in 2015, Debbie Dingell indicated that she was interested in running for his seat.
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When former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm declined to run for the seat, a Politico writer declared Debbie Dingell to be one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination, alongside Representative Gary Peters.
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Debbie Dingell chose not to run, and Peters won the seat.
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Debbie Dingell indicated that she planned to run for her husband's congressional seat after he announced his retirement.
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When Debbie Dingell was sworn in, she became the first US non-widowed woman in Congress to succeed her husband.
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In 2018, Debbie Dingell introduced a law that would give the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to recall defective firearms.
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John Debbie Dingell was a key lawmaker who initially granted the firearms industry this exemption from the 1972 Consumer Product Safety Act that created the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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In July 2019, Debbie Dingell voted against a House resolution introduced by Representative Brad Schneider opposing efforts to boycott the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.