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As the representative for Michigan's 7th District, 2015 has been a busy and productive year working on your behalf.
This year we hosted 35 coffee hours and town hall meetings to listen to your priorities. Here in Jackson County, we held these public forums in places like the Jackson Area Career Center, Spring Arbor Cafe, Marino's Pizza in Blackman Township, the Grass Lake Whistlestop Park Depot, and more locations.
For the Obama administration, with attention focused on the holidays, it is a prime opportunity to impose new regulations on Americans.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07), a member of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic, added his support to another piece of bipartisan legislation to combat the growing heroin and prescription opioid epidemic. The Stop Trafficking in Fentanyl Act, introduced by Reps. Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Tim Ryan (D-OH), would toughen trafficking penalties for fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic drug 50 times more potent than heroin that has become increasingly prevalent in drug overdose deaths.
Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, and Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, wrote Friday to Ann Arbor Director Robert P. McDivitt explaining that they'd received calls about surgeries taking place, despite the continued presence of particulate matter on equipment.
Washington, D.C. – Following reports that surgeries have resumed at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Representatives Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Tim Walberg (MI-07) are seeking assurances that the surgeries are not being conducted in unsafe conditions. In November, Dingell wrote to Director Robert P. McDivitt following reports that surgeries for veterans had been canceled or moved to another facility because particulate matter was observed on sterile surgical equipment.
The House voted through legislation Tuesday that would overhaul the federal visa waiver program.
The bill passed overwhelmingly, with a vote of 407 to 19.
It would institute a series of changes, specifically directed at people traveling from countries that are deemed "terror hotspots."
The current visa waiver program allows citizens of 38 countries to travel to the US for 90 days or less without getting a visa.