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Vote: | Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy. |
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Vote: | The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline. |
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Vote: | We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security. |
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Deborah Ann Stabenow (born April 29, 1950) is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan. She defeated the conservative Republican incumbent, Senator Spencer Abraham (whom George W. Bush later named Secretary of Energy) in 2000. She was the first woman from Michigan elected to the U.S. Senate, and along with Washington's Maria Cantwell the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
Stabenow was born in Gladwin, Michigan and grew up in Clare, Michigan. She graduated from Clare High School. She received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1972 and an M.S.W. magna cum laude from Michigan State University in 1975. While in graduate school, Stabenow won her first election, to the Ingham County Board of Commissioners, a position in which she served from 1975-1978. She has also worked as a social worker, and a leadership training consultant. She served in the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1979-1990, where she became the first woman to preside over the house. She also served in the State Senate from 1991-1994. She was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1996 from Michigan's Eighth District and served two terms. She did not seek reelection to the House of Representatives in 2000, but was elected to the U.S. Senate. Stabenow was considered the underdog for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow's 2006 reelection).
She is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Budget, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. She introduced the Medical Equity and Drug Savings Act in the Senate.
Stabenow is only the second person from Michigan to have served in both houses of the Michigan State Legislature and in both houses of the United States Congress. The first was Thomas W. Ferry. Stabenow is also the first person to have served as a Michigan state legislator to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate (until enactment of the Seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, U.S. Senators were selected by the state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since 1894, when Francis B. Stockbridge died.
Stabenow became the third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate on November 16, 2004, when she was elected by her colleagues to be secretary of the Democratic caucus. As caucus secretary, she will assist Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who lost a re-election bid in South Dakota. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was elected Minority Whip, the Democrats' second-ranking spot.
External links *U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow
*Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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