Press Releases

LIVONIA, MI - Today, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) announced the winners of the 2020 Congressional App Challenge for high school students in Michigan’s 11th Congressional District. Michelle Hua of Troy won the competition for “Coach AI,” a smart fitness app that uses artificial intelligence-based human pose detection and recognition to provide real-time coaching for users while they exercise.

WASHINGTON – This week, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) joined a bipartisan effort to restore the deductibility of forgiven Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) expenses.

The Paycheck Protection Program was created as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a regulatory decision issued by the IRS earlier this year means businesses will not be able to deduct forgiven PPP expenses, effectively imposing a surprise tax increase on struggling small businesses.

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Representatives Haley Stevens (MI-11) and Susan Wild (PA-07) sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calling for strengthened and enforceable workplace safety standards at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in any negotiated COVID-19 relief agreement.

WASHINGTON — This week, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) joined a bipartisan group of 233 Members of Congress to urge the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) to implement new policies so that they may resume processing military personnel, health, and medical records requests and address the growing backlog of requests due to the closure of the facility amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) voted to pass the National Apprenticeship Act of 2020, a bill to create nearly 1 million new apprenticeship opportunities by investing in the expansion of Registered Apprenticeships, youth apprenticeships, and pre-apprenticeships. Congresswoman Stevens, a co-sponsor of the National Apprenticeship Act, helped advance the bill through the Education and Labor Committee earlier this year.

WASHINGTON — As violence between Azerbaijan and Armenia continues, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) co-sponsored a bipartisan resolution condemning Azerbaijan’s ongoing military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, denouncing Turkey’s escalation of the conflict, and calling for an immediate return to the cease-fire agreement signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 1994.

WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) released the following statement on Manufacturing Day:

WASHINGTON — Last night, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) voted to pass the updated HEROES Act, legislation to provide emergency relief for the American people as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the country. The updated HEROES Act will protect the lives and livelihoods of American families, and is in line with what scientists and public health experts say is needed to address the ongoing health and economic crisis.