(Images provided by John James for Senate and the Associated Press)Vanessa Valdiva, communications director for the Democratic incumbent, said Peters is eager for James to explain his “out of touch health care positions that would raise costs and gut protections for 1.7 million Michiganders with a pre-existing condition.” James supported repealing the Affordable Care Act during his unsuccessful 2018 Senate bid, but told MLive this week that he wants to “fix the parts of Obamacare that are broken and keep the parts that aren’t.”James accused Peters of “hiding” in the video. A spokesperson for Peters’ reelection campaign said he “looks forward to debating” but did not respond to additional questions about whether the campaign is open to the terms James laid out on social media.Michigan’s 2018 Senate race featured two debates between Stabenow and James.A spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Gary Peters said the incumbent Democrat “looks forward” to taking up Republican Senate hopeful John James on his challenge to participate in a series of televised debates.Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.Republican John James, left, is challenging U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, in Michigan's 2020 Senate race.
Michigan Republican Party Chairman Laura Cox also pushed Peters to participate in a statement.
“What’s worse, this will only continue as other global competitors develop manufacturing strategies that help their own manufacturers.”“They’re not coordinated, it’s not efficient, taxpayer money is being wasted,” he said. It will be held concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Sen. Gary Peters (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin, AP, File) Peters said there are federal 58 programs spread across 11 agencies that deal with manufacturing. — Gary Peters (@GaryPeters) July 21, 2020 James accused Peters of “hiding” in the video. A National Institute of Manufacturing would enable his organization to better help companies navigate federal programs, he said.The effort has been in the works for at least a year with the legislation building off a proposal Peters announced last year.Peters said there are federal 58 programs spread across 11 agencies that deal with manufacturing.“We need to reverse that,” he said. $5 . He attributed that to inconsistent strategies state-to-state and country-to-country.“For a company like us, we’re not a small manufacturer, we’re more mid-size, but having that one-stop centralized hub to access information, to access consistent standards, access the information relative to national strategy programs would be essential to improving the efficiencies, in improving the speed,” he said.
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And this race isn’t between anyone else but you and me.Peters is seeking his second six-year term representing Michigan in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Gary Peters has introduced legislation to create the National Institute of Manufacturing, which would streamline national manufacturing programs.Peters noted that the United States' global share of manufacturing has dropped by 35% in the last 15 years.Holloway said that Piston Automotive experienced supply interruptions when restarting after a more than two-month shutdown earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The son of a sharecropper became the son of a mason, and the son of a mason became an entrepreneur,” pointing to his dad.James has challenged Peters to four debates, and so far, Peters has agreed to two: on public television stations in Detroit and Grand Rapids.“And from poverty to prosperity in one.”With just 99 days to go, Michigan’s U.S. Senate race may go down to the wire.The gap between the two candidates’ cash on hand “is one of the closest in the country,” according to the James campaign. “And that’s very important in the automotive industry.”The National Institute of Manufacturing would "speak with one voice for manufacturing in the country," he said, and allow a comprehensive strategy for enhancing manufacturing around the country.The agency would involve the creation of a chief manufacturing officer and a national manufacturing council.“Right now the process is simply too burdensome for many of our state’s businesses on the federal level,” Coast said.
“We need to be focused on the mission, which is to strengthen good-paying manufacturing jobs in America.”Coast said that the technology center has worked with thousands of Michigan businesses. Gary Charles Peters Sr. (born December 1, 1958) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Michigan since 2015. And that means that we’re using taxpayer money much more efficiently in helping manufacturers.”The Michigan senator said during a press conference Wednesday that the new federal agency would be modeled after the National Institutes of Health.Holloway said what's needed is a stronger national manufacturing policy, a chief manufacturing officer and an expanded manufacturing.gov web site.