Candidate · November 3, 2026

Debbie Dingell

On the ballot for U.S. House · Michigan's 6th District

Democratic PartyIncumbent
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$1.5M
cash on hand
$456K
issues with public statements
11
outside spending for or against
$2,058

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · Michigan's 6th District1
Party on the ballotDemocratic Party1
StatusIncumbent — Currently represents Michigan's 6th District in the U.S. House.2
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Debbie Dingell holds a bachelor's degree in foreign service and a master's degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University.3 She worked in the auto industry for over three decades, as a senior executive responsible for public affairs at General Motors and as President of the GM Foundation.3,4 She was elected to the Wayne State University Board of Governors in 2006 and chaired it before being elected to Congress.3,4 She represents Michigan's 6th District in the U.S. House, serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, and chairs the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.3,4

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says her priorities include protecting the Great Lakes, lowering health care costs, improving infrastructure and creating jobs by supporting manufacturing, and ensuring taxpayer dollars are used to lower the cost of living, fix the health care system and clean up corruption.5,6

Service in Congress since 2023

  • 2025–nowU.S. Representative, MI-62
  • 2023–2025U.S. Representative, MI-62

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Health Care

Health insurance system

Her campaign website says she believes everyone in America has the right to quality health care and that she is Co-Chair of the Medicare for All Caucus and a House lead of the Medicare for All Act.4,6

  1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
  2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
  3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
  4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Marked: the option their statement matches.
ACA premium tax credits

Her campaign website says that letting the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire has pushed up health costs for more than 24 million Americans.6

Federal Medicaid funding

Her campaign website says she is fighting the Medicaid cuts made in the budget law passed by President Trump and congressional Republicans, which it says took health care from 15 million people and are making long-term care harder for seniors to get.6

  1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
  2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
  3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Union organizing rules

Her campaign website says she cosponsored the PRO Act to protect workers' right to join a union.6

  1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized
Marked: the option their statement matches.
Trade agreements

Her campaign website says her work to rebuild American manufacturing and protect workers includes renegotiating the USMCA.6

  1. Sign new deals that lower trade barriers
  2. Keep existing deals, such as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, largely as they are
  3. Renegotiate existing deals, for example to require that more of each product be made in the US
  4. Leave existing deals and set terms country by country, including tariffs
Marked: the option their statement matches.
Tariffs

Her campaign website says tariffs should be implemented in a way that helps, and does not harm, domestic industries.6

Immigration

Masks and identification for immigration officers

Her campaign website says she is pushing for changes that would hold ICE to the rules other law enforcement agencies follow, such as no masks, required body cameras and judicial warrants.6

  1. Let officers cover their faces and keep their names private
  2. Require visible ID and body cameras, but allow face coverings
  3. Require visible ID and body cameras, and ban most face coverings
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Environment and Public Lands

Endangered species protections

Her campaign website says she has introduced legislation to help protect endangered wildlife and is championing the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, which it says would provide $3.8 billion to states for proactive work to prevent animals from becoming endangered.4,6

  1. Strengthen protections and spend more on helping species recover
  2. Keep current protections
  3. Narrow protections and give states more control over listed species
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Social Security and Medicare

Social Security benefit levels

Her campaign website says she cosponsors the Social Security 2100 Act, which it says increases Social Security benefits while making the system financially strong.6

  1. Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
  2. Keep the current benefit formula
  3. Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

Discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity

Her campaign website says she cosponsors the Equality Act, which it says would ban discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in many areas of life.6

  1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
  2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
  3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Education

US Department of Education

Her campaign website says Department of Education programs have been decimated, and that she supports public schools, public universities and teachers and is committed to promoting educational opportunities from pre-K through higher education.6

§4Popular bills that never got a vote

Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.

While Debbie Dingell served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Debbie Dingell sponsored or cosponsored 37 of the 52. How bills die without a vote.

See all 52

§5Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.61

Raised$1,525,723
Spent$1,413,283
Cash on hand$455,811

Where the money came from

Individual donors$488K · 32%
PACs and other political committees$910K · 60%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$120K · 8%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$7,687 · 1%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $2,058 supporting and $0 opposing Debbie Dingell this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 22, 2026.62

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
United We Can$2,058—

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§6Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.