Debbie Stabenow

Pete Hoekstra Makes Surprising Claim About Student Loans (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.14.2012

WASHINGTON -- A video of Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra vowing to end all federal student loan programs has surfaced on YouTube, putting th...

Pete Hoekstra Burns Through Cash In Michigan Senate Race

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.17.2012

Last week, Michigan GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra announced that he had raised nearly $700,000 in the first quarter of 2012. As The Huffington Po...

Pete Hoekstra Fundraising Drops After Super Bowl Ad

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.14.2012

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra took a pounding in the polls after running that Super Bowl ad of an Asian woman speaking broken Eng...

Amanda Terkel

GOP Senate Candidate Slams Lilly Ledbetter Act: 'That Thing Is A Nuisance'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.13.2012

WASHINGTON -- Former Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra, who is now running to unseat Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), weighed in on the Lilly Ledbet...

Dem Candidate Profits From Negative GOP Ad

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 04.05.2012

Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) enjoyed her most successful fundraising quarter ever in the wake of the controversy surrounding a negative campaign ...

Congress Should Pass Bill to Let Credit Unions Lend More So Small Businesses Grow, Create Jobs

Dave Adams | Posted 04.02.2012

Dave Adams

Despite some unfair treatment of banks, the American Bankers Association's opposition to legislation that would allow credit unions to make more small business loans is simply wrong.

Ladies In The Legislature: Michigan's Women Leaders

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.30.2012

As Women's History Month winds to a close, HuffPost Detroit takes a moment to honor the women leaders who are toiling away for the good of Michigan an...

Homes For Michigan's Homeless Veterans

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.28.2012

Homeless Michigan veterans will soon receive some much needed assistance finding a place to stay. On Tuesday, Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow,...

Scientists Pressure Congress For Additional Nuclear Lab Funding

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.05.2012

A delegation of scientists from across the country descended on Washington, D.C., Monday to lobby Congress for additional funding for an experimental ...

Democrats Accuse GOP Of 'War On Women'

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.29.2012

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is taking advantage of the controversy over contraception and women's health issues to feature its female...

Michael McAuliff

Pete Hoekstra Tanks In Polls After China Super Bowl Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.22.2012

WASHINGTON -- The fortunes of Michigan GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra have plummeted since his infamous Super Bowl ad featuring an Asian woman spe...

Amanda Terkel

Asian-American Super PAC Launches To Hit Back Against Controversial Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.17.2012

WASHINGTON -- A new super PAC has formed to support allies of the Asian Pacific Islander community after GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra aired a co...

Lawmakers Caught In Tricky Situation, Key Group Prepares For The Worst

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.15.2012

WASHINGTON -- Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it's a bit trickier. As la...

The Republican Tale of Two Commercials

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.08.2012

Lincoln Mitchell

Clint Eastwood's appearance and words during the Super Bowl had little to do with Obama. For observers with a long political memory, it was hard not to think of another president when seeing that commercial.

Remembering Vincent Chin: Pete Hoekstra and Being Asian in America

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 02.07.2012

Bruce Reyes-Chow

In a country that often sees race in terms of White America and Black America, like Latinos, Asian Americans live in a racial middle where we must choose between being Asian (or Chinese or Filipino or Indian) or American, but not both.

Michael McAuliff

Offensive China Ad Sparks Stabenow Money Bomb

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is turning the tables on one of her would-be challengers, launching a money-bomb fundraising pitch in res...

'Really, Really Dumb' Campaign Ad Draws More Criticism

AP | By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.07.2012

LANSING, Mich. -- Criticism of a Senate campaign ad featuring a young Asian woman talking in broken English about China taking away American jobs grew...

Super Bowl Campaign Ad Offends Many

AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.07.2012

LANSING, Mich. — The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstr...

Paul Blumenthal

Auction 2012: How The Drug Industry Games Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.01.2012

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...

Don't 'Let Them Eat Cake!'

Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 01.14.2012

Olga Bonfiglio

A small group of Kalamazoo food activists and professionals have begun studying the Food and Farm Bill so that they can talk to and influence policymakers, two of whom will play a key role in this year's [Congressional] appropriations.

Candidate Makes Shocking Comments On One Percent

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.11.2012

Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Clark Durant, speaking at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., said Thursday that the gap between the rich and poor s...

Push For New Farm Subsidy Could Allegedly Pay Billions To Farmers

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.07.2012

WASHINGTON — Corn and soybean farmers are pushing for – and Congress is moving to create – a whole new subsidy that could maintain f...

Amanda Terkel

Senate Women Face High Stakes In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.02.2012

WASHINGTON -- While a majority of people who live in the United States are women, there are only 17 of them in the U.S. Senate. And if Americans turn ...

Weekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.01.2011

The Media Consortium

President Obama made an energy speech this week that had little new to offer, while on Capitol Hill, Republicans were pushing to relieve the governm...

Elise Foley

Republicans Promise More Health Care Repeal Effors

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democrats defeated a Republican effort to overturn health care reform on Wednesday when they blocked a repeal amendment from being added...