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The U.S. House unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday calling on Russia to release Paul Whelan, a Novi resident who has been locked up since December 2018 on espionage charges.
Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, has repeatedly maintained his innocence.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison during a June 2020 trial that American officials have called unfair.
It’s #ManufacturingMonday! Today, I visited SABIC in Wixom to learn more about their work & efforts to lightweight vehicles. I also got to see an exciting demonstration of the capacity of their material to withstand extreme temperatures, thus improving the safety of electric vehicles in emergency cases.
Washington — After the Grand Rapids police killing of Patrick Lyoya, Michigan U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence is introducing a bill to boost training for police departments to better monitor body-worn camera footage.
The legislation by the Southfield Democrat would create a pilot program to fund training for local law enforcement departments to cover personnel costs to review body-worn camera footage on a continuing basis to improve officer conduct and safety, according to a bill summary.
Accounting faculty realize that the profession is becoming more technologically savvy with each passing day. The AICPA knows this, too, and is working to gain recognition for accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum under the technology field.
Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Waterford Township and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint Township, all Democrats, have been named to a bicameral committee in Congress that will negotiate the final shape of legislation aimed at increasing U.S. competition with China.
The committee will work to hammer out differences between the House and Senate versions of the same legislation, which has stalled amid partisan divisions over the House-led bill.
As the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Research and Technology, I am honored to be named to the America COMPETES Act Conference by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chairwoman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson. I will serve as a representative from the Science, Space and Technology Committee as a group of Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate work to iron out the differences in the House and Senate versions of this bipartisan innovation bill and get it ready to be signed into law.
Losing a parent may be one of the most destabilizing events of the human experience. Orphans are at increased risk of substance abuse, dropping out of school, and poverty.
For this week’s #ManufacturingMonday, I visited Waymo in Novi to experience and learn more about their autonomous vehicle technology. We discussed how autonomous vehicles can move people and goods safely and effectively. Thanks, @Waymo!
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) argued on Thursday that the United Nations’ repeated investigations of Israel may be part of a campaign to delegitimize and potentially withdraw recognition of the Jewish state in the body’s General Assembly.
Speaking during a virtual AIPAC event, the sophomore congresswoman condemned the U.N.’s “wild targeting of the State of Israel, over and over and over again to the tune of it almost [feeling] like a conspiracy theory.”
Opening the hearing, Research and Technology Subcommittee Chair Haley Stevens (D-MI) distinguished between fair and unfair influence in standards-setting, saying, “Within the last year, both the European Union and the Chinese government laid out ambitious plans to gain supremacy in international standards-setting. These goals are legitimate as long as those nations continue to adhere to the merit-based model for standards development.