Two and a half years ago, my wife Marlene had a slip and fall on a patch of ice during her lunch break while in training for a new job.   It was a simple accident with serious consequences: a broken wrist which required urgent surgery – one of those everyday mishaps that can happen to anyone during a Michigan winter.   Our new health insurance hadn’t kicked in yet, so I was writing a check for $6,000 at 6am on a Monday morning for a surgery that couldn’t wait. All told, we ha

When Medicaid funding is slashed, hospitals shut down and jobs are lost, especially in rural areas.   That’s exactly what Trump and my opponent, Jack Bergman, have coming for us. But I have a different plan.    We’ve already seen what happens when jobs are decimated on this level. When the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, 200,000 high-quality, union-paying jobs were shipped to Mexico. We were told it would be good for our state.   We are still recovering

In my travels on the campaign trail, sometimes folks ask me why I’m running for Congress when I’ve never held elected office before.   And here’s what I tell them:   Because that’s exactly what this seat was designed for.   The Founders didn’t imagine Congress as a place reserved for lawyers, business tycoons, and political insiders.   They wanted a government made up of farmers and tradesmen, teachers and builders, ordinary people who knew the cost of bread, the weight of a