BAY CITY — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., was in Bay City Monday to highlight the Waterfront Community Revitalization and Resiliency Act that he introduced and see firsthand...
In his first visit to Bay City as a U.S. Senator, Gary Peters attended a roundtable meeting on tourism and travel and took a tour of the city's riverfront.
Sen. Peters...
Peters was greeted at the Doubletree by a slew of guests, from Bay County Executive Tom Hickner to Mike Kegley, president of the organization that curates the USS Edson Naval...
New federal legislation signed into law this week could significantly reduce the cost of maintaining U.S. government agencies’ vehicle fleets by requiring those groups to...
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The “Pipeline Improvement and Preventing Spills Act” calls for a ban on shipping of crude oil by vessel on the Great Lakes.
Currently, no crude oil is transported...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters sent a letter to the White House on Wednesday asking that the U.S. accept no fewer than 100,000 refugees fleeing bloodshed from Syria and...
Washington — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters wants the Obama administration to triple the number of refugees from war-ravaged Syria that it will accept next year and to give...
The bill would require a review of all pipelines in the Great Lakes region, plus it would ban transporting crude oil on tanker ships. That's something that doesn't happen at all...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., got his first piece of legislation as a senator approved by the U.S. House on Monday and sent on to President Barack Obama...
The U.S. House on Monday approved a bipartisan bill to cut federal vehicle repair costs.
The measure, proposed by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township and Bill Huizenga,...
The environmental threat to the Great Lakes posed by the transport of oil on and underneath its waters has prompted two Michigan’s U.S. senators to craft a bill aimed at...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan's two Democratic U.S. senators have introduced federal legislation to ban shipping crude oil by vessel on the Great Lakes and add the basin to a...
As hundreds prepare to gather for an oil spill response drill in the Mackinac Straits, Michigan's two U.S. senators announced new legislation introduced in hopes of preventing such...
DEARBORN — After witnessing the hopelessness at Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp, the temporary home of 80,000 Syrians, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich), believes the United States...
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) toured the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams or FRIB on Monday as part of his bipartisan effort to continue funding to the...
Pending legislation could help level the playing field for craft distilleries by reducing the excise tax that a distiller must pay on its spirits.
The Distillery Excise Tax Reform...
Local distillers in Michigan's Great Southwest concur with Michigan Senator Gary Peters that a proposed federal reduction in the excise tax on alcoholic spirits by small...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Those in the craft distillery business call the federal excise tax on liquor a "hangover from Prohibition."
Flanked by a pair of bronze distillers in Long...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., will travel to the Middle East this week to meet with officials in Iraq, Jordan and elsewhere to discuss ongoing...