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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions are relying on health guidance and disease prevention from experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester Hills) wants Congress to adopt a bill that would streamline key federal research and scientific findings for the public. She’s looking for this to be included in the fourth phase of COVID-19 relief legislation, per a letter she sent to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
“There’s jokes about extroverted politicians and shelter-in-place,” quipped Haley Stevens, the 36-year-old Michigan congresswoman, at the beginning of a recent Zoom call with some of her Jewish supporters in and around Detroit. “It’s all my favorite people!”
It was late on a Tuesday afternoon — the seventh night of Passover — and the freshman Democrat looked a bit lonely as she beamed into the meeting from her home in Rochester Hills.
Shortly after her Ford Explorer pulled into her driveway late Saturday night, Rep. Haley Stevens (D., Mich.) posted a short tweet. “Home,” she wrote, adding emojis to reflect her love for the Mitten State.
Ms. Stevens had been bracing for fallout well before her road trip. During a Feb. 10 meeting, she had brought up the supply-chain risk the new coronavirus’s rapid spread in China posed for the companies in her district.
WASHINGTON - Michigan manufacturers might be getting some relief soon as the economic crisis tied to coronavirus deepens.
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester Hills) seeks to buoy the struggling sector of Michigan's economy by waiving the cost of using resources offered by the state's collaborative manufacturing partnership.
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., says she’s ready to work with the president to get factories in her state producing the protective equipment U.S. health care workers need to fight against the coronavirus.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester Hills) this announced a congressional caucus for women and underrepresented minorities who seek careers in STEM fields.
Stevens will co-chair the Congressional Women in STEM Caucus alongside U.S. Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.). It’s intended to “support and increase” the amount of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Rochester) held a roundtable discussion Tuesday on voting with some Michiganders who aren’t even eligible to cast a ballot.
She was joined by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Voters Not Politicians Executive Director Nancy Wang and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan voting rights strategist Sharon Dolente.
Their audience in Livonia was a dozen Farmington Public Schools government students. The experts talked about the importance of voter participation, especially for young people.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Rochester Hills, is hosting her fourth town hall on Thursday in Livonia.
The education-focused event will be held at 6 p.m. inside Kehrl Auditorium on the campus of Schoolcraft College. Although ID's will not be checked prior to admission, residents of Michigan's 11th Congressional District are being encouraged to attend the informative event.
Over the past three months, Stevens has hosted town halls in Plymouth and Milford along with a tele-town hall in late March from her Washington D.C. office.
Congresswoman Haley Stevens, D-Rochester Hills, is hoping that a local advanced technology program will continue at Oakland Community College.
To make sure that happens, Stevens, along with 23 other U.S. representatives, submitted a funding request letter to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.
In 2017, women in the United States earned 82 percent as much as men, meaning it would take women an extra 47 days to earn the same amount. A JAMA study published in early March revealed this financial discrepancy extends into the sciences, in the form of research grants. Men, on average, are awarded larger grants than women from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as first-time principal investigators — a difference that experts say places female scientists at a major disadvantage.