joining us now, democratic congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan.. we've been talking voting rights in washington this week, these efforts by state legislatures to try and change voting rules in reaction to what we learn again and again is essentially no widespread fraud that would change results. >> well, good morning, kasie. it's good to be with you this morning. this is what i'm going to say. i read the report. [ indiscernible ] they could not find any widespread pattern of fraud which the former president keeps trying to spread. what i'm the most worried about is it's undermined people's confidence in democracy and the power of the vote. even though we have that vote, there is reaction in our senate and state house that's going to make it difficult for people to vote, make it harder for people to participate in the democracy, things like seniors who have been on permanent lists are suddenly going to have to show i.d. to be able to vote. there was a discussion yesterday whether it's going to have to be on a -- [ indiscernible ] many don't have th

congresswoman debbie dingell joins us now. congresswoman, good morning and thank you so much for sharing part of your weekend with us. you have warned against talking an infrastructure bill to death. the white house has made deadlines that have come and gone on a bipartisan plan. at this point there is no indication that this new version ever the plan is definitely going to happen. do you want the president to give up on a bipartisan effort at this point? >> well, good morning. it's great to be with you. you know, i have mixed feelings. then again, they are probably not mixed. i think i'm somebody that works across the aisle, talks to my republican colleagues on a regular basis, and i think that the country is better off when those kinds of things happen. i also think that we are in a once-in-a-generation opportunity, that we need to pass serious legislation. our roads and bridges are broken. we need to fix the damn roads. there are a number of other critical things that have to happen. electric vehicles, they are the wave of

here is part of that debate featuring congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. [video clip] >> this bipartisan legislation would limit safeguards against pill dumping and other abusive practices to address that opioid epidemic, which remains one of the most pressing public health crisis faced in our country. last year, over 88,000 americans lost their lives as a result of the opioid crisis, including 2650 individuals in my home state of michigan. communities across the country are hurting, and new tools to address pill dumping and other dodgy practices that have exasperated the opioid crisis are needed now more than ever. this actual strength and oversight and integrity of the opioid supply chain by requiring that drug manufacturers and distributors exercise due diligence when they receive a suspicious order for controlled substances. this includes blocking or declining to fill the suspicious order and providing additional orders in question. this legislation's common sense reduction will save lives in michigan and all around this country, by making distributors

here is part of that debate featuring congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. >> this bipartisan legislation would implement safeguards against pill dumping and other abusive practices to address the ongoing opioid epidemic which remains one of the most pressing public health risks facing our country. last year, over 88,000 americans lost their lives as a result of the opioid crisis, including 2,650 individuals in my home state of michigan. communities across the country are hurting. and new tools to address pill dumping and other dodgy practices that have exasperated the opioid crisis are needed now more than ever. the block, report, and suspend suspicious shipments act will strengthen oversight and integrity of the opioid supply chain by requiring that drug manufacturers and distributors exercise due diligence when they receive a suspicious order for controlled substances. this includes blocking or declining to fill the suspicious order and providing dea additional data and background on the indicators of the order in question. this legislation's common sense protection will save lives in

. >> joining me now is congressman debbie dingell, a democrat from michigan.gresswoman was saying there. do you agree with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez that the senate needs to give when it comes to reconciliation? if so, why is it so important? >> well, i'm going to tell you, first of all, that there are two houses of congress and the house is the house of the people and we do have our right to talk about what we are going to need. so i feel very strongly that that is the case. there are a number of things that are very important to the midwest and to people across the country that i believe are going to have to be part of some kind of bill. if we can't get them through the senate in a bipartisan way, and i'm always for bipartisanship when we can do it, we have no choice but to look at reconciliation. i'm someone that believes long-term care is critical. i introduced a bill with senator bob casey last thursday that i very much hope will be part of that. electric vehicles, there's not a significant amount of money really in the bipartisan proposal. a

. >>> joining us right now, democrat congresswoman, debbie dingell of michigan. she, by the way, is co-sponsor of the for the people act. so, the perfect person to have on this early-saturday morning. congresswoman, thank you for being here. why bring this voting-rights bill to the floor? where, obviously, it's going to fail. >> it's time to start holding people accountable. what republicans have been trying to do since the november election is undermine people's confidence in the election results that occurred last november. republican clerks, not democrats, but republican clerks across the country have been saying these were fair and legitimate elections and people are wondering about them. and now, we see state after state [ inaudible ] in the next election. in my own state in michigan, republicans have introduced a set of 39 bills that want to make it harder to register. seniors, who for decades, have been able to have ballots sent to them, they have to go and show i.d. [ inaudible ] how to use a printer or have a copier at home. h.r.1's a very important bill

here is part of that debate featuring congresswoman debbie dingell of michigan. [video clip] >> this bipartisan legislation would limit safeguards against pill dumping and other abusive practices to address that opioid epidemic, which remains one of the most pressing public health crisis faced in our country. last year, over 88,000 americans lost their lives as a result of the opioid crisis, including 2650 individuals in my home state of michigan. communities across the country are hurting, and new tools to address pill dumping and other dodgy practices that have exasperated the opioid crisis are needed now more than ever. this actual strength and oversight and integrity of the opioid supply chain by requiring that drug manufacturers and distributors exercise due diligence when they receive a suspicious order for controlled substances. this includes blocking or declining to fill the suspicious order and providing additional orders in question. this legislation's common sense reduction will save lives in michigan and all around this country, by making distributors

we models the subpoena requests we did on congressman debbie dingell's late husband.one of the things that certainly i was stressing in my op-ed, too, is our capitol police and the d.c. police who were fighting there that day and holding the line, were doing so while these members all got to safety. one of the things that, when we met with the senators and explained to them what was really going on on the front lines, we want, you know, they did their jobs so well that some of these members still don't appreciate how violent it was. when you watch that six-minute video of officer fanone getting brutally beaten so that he had a heart attack, he was tayed by a trump supporter, people don't want to hear those things. there's so many facts like that this just need to get out there. the press needs to get the facts out, out, but we need to hear from more people on the front lines. i think they just need to start doing this, start sending the subpoenas, start getting the testimony and getting people up there in front of a committee. i certainly would prefer a bipartisan com

i was just talking to congresswoman debbie dingell a minute or so ago.but then they have to actually write all of the details of these bills. we're not going to be at that stage quite yet this summer, so it's like lay they're going to have to come back in the fall, finalize everything, and then ideally get them passed. but you have to remember, there are all kinds of ways that people can effect this process. the budget process in particular, if it's just democrats who are doing that, republicans can force the senate to stay in overnight. they're already working on amendments to try to derail different things and cause problems for that process. so we really are a long way from actually seeing this become law. >> there's more optimism too on police reform. republicans working on a bipartisan police reform deal say they're optimistic they can announce an agreement before they leave the capitol for that fourt of july recess. >> i do think we're making more progress in the last day or two than we have in the last week, so i think we're going to be headed tow