DPCC Co-Chair Dingell: The American People Need The Facts
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, appeared on MSNBC Live to discuss how House Democrats are working For the People to protect American jobs and clean up corruption in Washington. Click here to watch the video.
"I think we really have to look at a number of things. I think, quite frankly, everybody is stunned at some of the things that we have witnessed in the last three years. I mean, there's so many. From no one has ever used their own property and made money off of the government. No one has ever just not [felt] that they're accountable to the Congress. He's tearing this country apart in ways that [are] just absolutely unbelievable. Foreign policy has never, ever been a partisan issue; we were Americans, once you left our borders. And to see what's happening now, in terms of even the whistleblower this week – so we are going to have to look to how we're going to ensure that things we've witnessed in the last three years, we're going to get balance back to our country and ensure that there is a balance a of power between the three branches of government."
"I'm somebody who has always said, we must meticulously gather the facts. We have to know what we're dealing with. I hate seeing the division that's dividing this country, and by the way, the Mueller report also talks about how the Russians are trying to divide us. They're being quite successful at that. But we need the facts and when the American people get the real facts, not facts that are being tied up in all the swirling and -- we're going to have to see what happens and that's why, being slow and deliberate, is the right thing to do: so we have the facts."
"So I mean people, you know, I walked the picket lines on Monday, I'm very close to the UAW, most people know that I'm in the halls every weekend. At the beginning of the week, people were excited. They were really fighting for something and they're still fighting for something. I want to make that really clear. People began talking about this strike last year, immediately following General Motors' closures of those plants. I think honestly the strike could go on for weeks, because they are fighting for job security, they're fighting for their future. And we're going to have to see where this goes. I think people are going to get more down when you're in week three or four and you're only making $250 a week, and I'm already hearing from people who have lost their health care. Now COBRA [health insurance] is there, but [with] benefits that they can't get. So it's going to start to get more trying in the next week or two, but I'll be walking those picket lines again tomorrow and Monday."