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U.S. Senate

Michigan
Statewide

Election day: November 3, 2026

Six candidates are on Michigan's official candidate listing for one U.S. Senate seat.

Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Democratic

Ratings checked October 1, 2026

Updated October 22, 2026

At a glance

A quick look at the candidates

One stated goal, one checked action and the top committee funding for each candidate. Read the detailed guide for the rest.

What the funding line covers

Funding shows up to the two largest listed committee categories, without individual-donor conduit entries.

Record checked Oct 22, 2026. Money dates are shown separately.

Abdul El-Sayed

Democratic

One stated goal Medicare for All: Medicare expanded to cover all necessary care for every American, without premiums, copays or deductibles.

One checked action Testified to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as Wayne County's health director, describing a county program announced in March 2024 to relieve up to $700 million in medical debt.

Campaign cash $2,552,763 on , principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified: $23,325; Leadership PACs: $17,000.

Through July 15, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Contributions from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Only line 11C has entries: 23 contributions totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions. Lines 11B and 12 carry nothing. None of the 23 comes from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. The two hybrid PAC rows are contributions from named PACs such as MoveOn.org Political Action and No Dem Left Behind PAC, not donations routed through ActBlue. The three rows the FEC records no type for are committees named for other candidates, $1,100 in all. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table; the committee reports $14,408,058.06 of individual contributions out of $14,514,335.93 in receipts for the same period. The rows sum to 71,845.23 dollars.

Mike Rogers

Republican

One stated goal Manufacturing jobs brought back home, and lower prices for gas, groceries and prescription drugs.

One checked action Sponsored Senate Bill 599 of 1999, which created the Michigan education savings program and was approved by the governor as Public Act 161 of 2000.

Campaign cash $4,414,988 on , principal committee only.

Listed committee funding Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees: $3,139,682; Leadership PACs: $400,000.

Through July 15, 2026. Cash above has its own date.

Funding scope

Contributions and transfers from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B: one party contribution of $62,000. Line 11C: $787,227.09 across 197 contributions, after excluding 10 memo entries. Line 12: $3,139,681.67 transferred from eight joint fundraising committees; 7,086 memo entries itemizing the individual donations inside those transfers are excluded because the transfers already count them. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it, and the table totals $3,988,908.76. Donations individuals made through WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table. The rows sum to 3,988,908.76 dollars.

Lydia Christensen

Libertarian

One stated goal Medicaid for All as opt-in coverage for citizens and legal residents, with premiums capped by income.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

Her committee has filed no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read. It has instead filed Form 99 statements, most recently on July 2, 2026, saying it has not raised or spent more than $5,000 in the cycle.

Tim Long

U.S. Taxpayers

One stated goal No policy statement is included in this desk.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

His committee has filed only a Statement of Organization, on July 27, 2026, and no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read.

Douglas P. Marsh

Green

One stated goal A Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for every citizen over 18.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

His committee has filed no financial report in either cycle, so there are no filing lines to read. In June 2024 it told the FEC it had not raised or spent more than $5,000; it has filed no such statement for 2026.

Walter P. Kristy

Natural Law

One stated goal No policy statement is included in this desk.

One checked action No official action is listed in this desk. The detailed guide explains the gap.

Campaign cash No campaign cash figure is included in this desk.

Listed committee funding No committee funding breakdown is included here.

Funding scope

The FEC records no campaign committee and no filing for him, so there is no money to report and no filing lines to read.

Who is running?

Printed ballot candidates

  • Abdul El-SayedDemocratic
  • Mike RogersRepublican
  • Lydia ChristensenLibertarian
  • Tim LongU.S. Taxpayers
  • Douglas P. MarshGreen
  • Walter P. KristyNatural Law

Source: Michigan Department of State official candidate listing

Checked September 2, 2026

Read the detailed guide, goals, actions and campaign funding

Voter guide

The candidates, side by side

Goals come from each campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filings it covers, and some notes also compare the rows with the campaign's own FEC summary.

Abdul El-Sayed

Background

  • Director and health officer of Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services when he testified to the Senate health committee in July 2024.
  • His campaign says he rebuilt Detroit's Health Department after the city's bankruptcy and then restructured Wayne County's health department.
  • His campaign describes him as a physician and epidemiologist, a Rhodes Scholar, and the author of a book on Medicare for All.

What they say they want to do

  • Medicare for All: Medicare expanded to cover all necessary care for every American, without premiums, copays or deductibles.
  • Corporate and special-interest money out of elections, by overturning Citizens United and banning outside spending through 501(c)(4)s, super PACs and 527 groups.
  • Higher taxes on the very wealthy, including a tax on wealth over $1 billion, with a $50,000 cost-of-living exemption from federal tax.
  • Line 5 shut down.
  • An immediate end to the war in Iran.

What the official record shows

  • Testified to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as Wayne County's health director, describing a county program announced in March 2024 to relieve up to $700 million in medical debt.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 4 committees$23,325
Leadership PACs 4 committees$17,000
Labor Organization PACs 4 committees$15,500
PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee$5,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 2 committees$4,500
Membership Organization PACs 2 committees$2,420
House 1 committee$2,000
Committees the FEC records no type for 3 committees$1,100
PAC - Qualified 1 committee$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Contributions from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Only line 11C has entries: 23 contributions totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions. Lines 11B and 12 carry nothing. None of the 23 comes from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. The two hybrid PAC rows are contributions from named PACs such as MoveOn.org Political Action and No Dem Left Behind PAC, not donations routed through ActBlue. The three rows the FEC records no type for are committees named for other candidates, $1,100 in all. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table; the committee reports $14,408,058.06 of individual contributions out of $14,514,335.93 in receipts for the same period. The rows sum to 71,845.23 dollars.

Mike Rogers

Background

  • Represented Michigan's 8th district in the U.S. House for seven terms, from 2001 to 2015.
  • Chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; the committee's 2011 report and the 2014 Congressional Directory record him as chair.
  • Before Congress he was a Michigan state senator; the legislature's record lists him as sponsor for District 26.
  • Served in the Army from 1985 to 1989, where the Congressional Directory gives his rank as captain, then as an FBI special agent from 1989 to 1994 on public corruption and organized crime. His campaign says he began as a lieutenant and that his FBI work was in Chicago.

What they say they want to do

  • Manufacturing jobs brought back home, and lower prices for gas, groceries and prescription drugs.
  • Social Security and Medicare protected for seniors.
  • 529 savings plans opened to first-time home down payments, and tax-free residential zones for new construction.
  • Insurers forced to publish denial rates, approval times and appeal outcomes, and fined for posting no real prices.
  • The tax cuts he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts made permanent, and the state and federal gas tax suspended.

What the official record shows

  • Sponsored Senate Bill 599 of 1999, which created the Michigan education savings program and was approved by the governor as Public Act 161 of 2000.
  • Sponsored the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, which became Public Law 109-228.
  • Voted Yea on the House budget resolution for fiscal 2012, whose Medicare section kept current benefits for those in and near retirement and assumed a premium support payment for future beneficiaries. It passed the House; the Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up.
  • Sponsored the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 as the committee's chairman and voted Aye on its House passage; it became Public Law 112-87.
  • Sponsored the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House twice with his vote, 248 to 168 in April 2012 and 288 to 127 in April 2013, and was referred to committee in the Senate both times.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 8 committees$3,139,682
Leadership PACs 50 committees$400,000
Corporation PACs 34 committees$131,000
PAC - Qualified 19 committees$109,500
Trade Association PACs 16 committees$65,000
Party committees 1 committee$62,000
Membership Organization PACs 4 committees$30,000
PAC - Nonqualified 6 committees$18,750
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 3 committees$12,500
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 2 committees$7,500
House 2 committees$7,000
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 1 committee$2,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 4 committees$2,477
Cooperative PACs 1 committee$1,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Contributions and transfers from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B: one party contribution of $62,000. Line 11C: $787,227.09 across 197 contributions, after excluding 10 memo entries. Line 12: $3,139,681.67 transferred from eight joint fundraising committees; 7,086 memo entries itemizing the individual donations inside those transfers are excluded because the transfers already count them. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it, and the table totals $3,988,908.76. Donations individuals made through WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table. The rows sum to 3,988,908.76 dollars.

Lydia Christensen

Background

  • The Libertarian Party nominee, printed third on the state's listing and filed by convention on June 29, 2026.
  • Her campaign says her family comes from Ironwood in the Upper Peninsula, that she grew up in foster care, and that she founded her own technology company.

What they say they want to do

  • Medicaid for All as opt-in coverage for citizens and legal residents, with premiums capped by income.
  • No federal income tax on earnings under $150,000 a year.
  • An end to warrantless surveillance of Americans, the license plate reader dragnet and the remaining Patriot Act powers, and a Bill of Digital Rights making personal data its owner's property.
  • Line 5 decommissioned and safely removed, and the Great Lakes Tunnel stopped.
  • Binding legislation to end the war in Iran and no further war funding without authorization.

What the official record shows

No public office held by her was found, so there is no official record of votes, sponsorships or official acts to list. The desk searched the state's candidate listing, her FEC filings and her campaign biography, which describes her work in technology and names no office.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Her committee has filed no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read. It has instead filed Form 99 statements, most recently on July 2, 2026, saying it has not raised or spent more than $5,000 in the cycle.

Source: Federal Election Commission

Tim Long

Background

  • The U.S. Taxpayers Party nominee, printed fourth on the state's listing and filed by convention on July 20, 2026.
  • He registered a campaign committee with the FEC on July 27, 2026, as Timothy E. Long.

What they say they want to do

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website; the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page read "No candidates have been added yet" on September 23, 2026; and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

What the official record shows

No public office held by him was found in the sources searched: the state's candidate listing, his FEC registration and his party's candidates page. News listings describe an earlier run for the Wayne County Commission, which the desk did not confirm from the county's own election record.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

His committee has filed only a Statement of Organization, on July 27, 2026, and no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read.

Douglas P. Marsh

Background

  • The Green Party nominee, printed fifth on the state's listing and filed by convention on April 27, 2026.
  • His campaign describes him as a community journalist and says he made the site himself on a Sunday afternoon.
  • He also filed with the FEC as a Senate candidate for 2024; his committee has been active in both cycles.

What they say they want to do

  • A Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for every citizen over 18.
  • Single-payer health care.
  • No private equity ownership of homes, and rents tied to local wages.
  • An immediate end to hostilities against Iran, and permanent ceasefires in Gaza and Ukraine.
  • Line 5 and the Line 5 tunnel stopped, and accountability for PFAS contamination and for Flint.

What the official record shows

No public office held by him was found. The desk searched the state's candidate listing, his FEC filings and his campaign site, which describes his work as a community journalist and names no office.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

His committee has filed no financial report in either cycle, so there are no filing lines to read. In June 2024 it told the FEC it had not raised or spent more than $5,000; it has filed no such statement for 2026.

Source: Federal Election Commission

Walter P. Kristy

Background

  • The Natural Law Party nominee, printed sixth on the state's listing and filed by convention on August 31, 2026.
  • The FEC has a candidate record for him but no campaign committee.

What they say they want to do

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no committee that would list a website; the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site, nlpmi.org, answered with a challenge page (HTTP 403) and was not read; and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

What the official record shows

No public office held by him was found in the sources searched: the state's candidate listing and his FEC candidate record. His party's site, which might describe him, could not be read.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

The FEC records no campaign committee and no filing for him, so there is no money to report and no filing lines to read.

Race outlook

How an approved rating source sees this race

Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities. A rating appears only when that publisher allows the use.

  • Sabato's Crystal BallLeans Democratic

    Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Sep 22, 2026; checked Oct 1, 2026.

Sabato's Crystal Ball allows this rating to be used with credit, so their name and date stay on the row. A Stated Record comparison is added only when two or more approved ratings are current. The rule is in Methodology.

What to know

The race in context

The candidate field remains provisional because the state source labels its listing unofficial; campaign context stays unpublished until the field is final.

Latest record

Updates to this race desk.

Public statement

Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

From the October 21 WXYZ debate. Mike Rogers's claim that he put in $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care matches in direction: in 2010 he offered a committee amendment at that amount, which failed 19 to 30, and he voted against the bill that became law. Abdul El-Sayed's claim to have had every school, daycare and Head Start tested for lead matches in direction: he led a citywide offer of testing, but the city could not require it. His claim to have outraised Rogers matches in direction: about 2.2 times as much through September 30.

Named in this record: Mike Rogers, Abdul El-Sayed

Public statement

Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

From the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate. Mike Rogers's Army and FBI service matches the official record, which does not say he worked in Chicago. His claim that he pushed to speed up generic drugs matches in direction: he cosponsored the House's 2007 FDA bill and voted for the law that limits ways to delay generics, and voted for 2003 and 2012 measures with generic drug sections, but none of his own bills names generics. Abdul El-Sayed's Columbia medical degree matches Columbia's own account.

Named in this record: Mike Rogers, Abdul El-Sayed

Candidate records

The field, without the campaign gloss

Current public roles come from government sources. Campaign-finance IDs come from the FEC.

Democratic

Abdul El-Sayed

Holds no public office. He was director and health officer of Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services, the title under which he testified to a Senate committee in July 2024.

FEC candidate
S6MI00418
Principal committee
C00902668

Public profiles

  • X @AbdulElSayedPublic profile linked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete historical archive.
  • Instagram @abdulelsayedPublic profile linked by the campaign site.
  • Facebook DrAbdulElSayedPublic page linked by the campaign site.

Republican

Mike Rogers

Holds no public office. He represented Michigan's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House for seven terms, from 2001 to 2015.

FEC candidate
S4MI00595
Principal committee
C00849810

Public profiles

  • X @MikeRogersForMIPublic profile linked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete historical archive.
  • Instagram @mikerogersformiPublic profile linked by the campaign site.
  • Facebook MikeRogersForMIPublic page linked by the campaign site.

Libertarian

Lydia Christensen

No public office found. The Libertarian Party nominee, filed by convention on June 29, 2026.

FEC candidate
S6MI00442
Principal committee
C00903575

Public profiles

  • X @Lydia4USSenatePublic profile linked by the campaign site. A profile link is not a complete historical archive.
  • Facebook lydiaforussenatePublic page linked by the campaign site.
  • Instagram: not foundThe campaign site links no Instagram account.

U.S. Taxpayers

Tim Long

No public office found. The U.S. Taxpayers Party nominee, filed by convention on July 20, 2026.

FEC candidate
S6MI00566
Principal committee
C00957514

Public profiles

  • X: not foundNo campaign website was found to link an account, and his FEC committee registration lists none.

Green

Douglas P. Marsh

No public office found. The Green Party nominee, filed by convention on April 27, 2026.

FEC candidate
S4MI00512
Principal committee
C00875971

Public profiles

  • X: not foundThe campaign site links no social account.

Natural Law

Walter P. Kristy

No public office found. The Natural Law Party nominee, filed by convention on August 31, 2026.

FEC candidate
S6MI00590

Public profiles

  • X: not foundNo campaign website was found to link an account. The FEC records no campaign committee for him.

Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise.

How social posts are used

Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.

Issue comparison

What each campaign says

Each campaign's own positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.

Health care

El-Sayed's campaign would expand Medicare to all needed care without premiums, copays or deductibles; Rogers's would fine hospitals and insurers that don't post real prices. Christensen's campaign backs opt-in Medicaid for All; no position by Long was found on the pages checked; Marsh's campaign backs single-payer; no position by Kristy was found on the pages checked. Rogers voted for laws with generic-drug sections; no bill he sponsored names generics in its title.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He says he will fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary care, including vision, dental and hearing, for every American without premiums, copays or deductibles, and that he wrote a book on Medicare for All. Until then he opposes privatizing Medicare or cutting Medicaid and the ACA.

Mike Rogers

His health plan would fine hospitals and insurers that do not post real prices, expand access to TrumpRx and speed approval of lower-cost generic drugs, and force insurers to publicly report denial rates, approval times and appeal outcomes, with penalties for excessive denials.

Lydia Christensen

She proposes Medicaid for All as opt-in coverage for citizens and legal residents, covering all medically necessary care, with premiums capped by income and free below a set threshold, funded by drug price negotiation, administrative savings, spending cuts and closing corporate and wealth tax loopholes.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

He says every citizen should have access to quality health services by default and that the best way to ensure it is a single-payer system.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

Costs of living and taxes

El-Sayed's campaign would exempt the first $50,000 of income from federal tax, raise taxes on income over $1 million and tax wealth over $1 billion. Rogers's campaign would suspend gas taxes and backs no tax on tips and overtime. Christensen's campaign would end federal income tax on earnings under $150,000; no position from Long was found. Marsh's campaign backs a $1,000-a-month basic income for adult citizens; no position from Kristy was found.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He supports a federal tax exemption on the first $50,000 of income for cost of living, taxing capital gains over $1 million as ordinary income, a higher marginal rate on earnings over $1 million and a tax on wealth over $1 billion.

Mike Rogers

His campaign says he will lower the cost of gas, groceries and prescription drugs and bring manufacturing jobs back home. He calls for suspending the state and federal gas tax, and he backs what he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts, including no tax on tips and overtime.

Lydia Christensen

She proposes no federal income tax on earnings under $150,000 a year, as a step toward eliminating the federal income tax, and supports removing tariffs, which she calls a regressive tax.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

He says he will advocate for a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for every citizen over 18, and $1,500 a month for descendants of chattel slavery.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

Housing

El-Sayed's campaign wants a building boom and would ban rent-setting software and bar large corporate speculators from owning homes. Rogers's campaign would let 529 savings plans pay first-time home down payments and roll back housing rules. Christensen's campaign backs rapid rehousing funded by capping the Pentagon budget; no position from Long was found. Marsh's campaign would keep private equity from owning homes and tie rents to local wages; no position from Kristy was found.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He calls for a building boom through federal investment and looser local rules, a ban on large corporations that speculate on housing owning homes at all, and a federal ban on algorithmic rent-setting software.

Mike Rogers

His housing plan would let 529 savings plans pay first-time home down payments, give renters credit for on-time rent, roll back housing regulation, and create residential zones where new construction is tax-free.

Lydia Christensen

Her housing plan starts with a rapid rehousing program run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which she would fund by capping the Pentagon budget.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

He says private equity companies should not own residential property, rents should be tied to an area's prevailing wages, and short-term rentals must be regulated.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

Social Security and Medicare

El-Sayed's campaign would close the payroll tax cap and opposes privatizing Medicare; Rogers's campaign would protect both programs and opposes taxing seniors' benefits. Christensen's campaign would fight any cut to Social Security benefits; no position from Long, Marsh or Kristy was found. In the House through 2015, Rogers voted for Medicare's drug benefit law, a 2004 Social Security law and budget plans, not law, that kept current benefits but assumed premium support for future enrollees.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He says he will fight to close the Social Security payroll tax cap so the program stays solvent, and categorically opposes privatizing Medicare.

Mike Rogers

His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting Michigan first means. He opposes taxing seniors' Social Security, and credits what he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts with cutting those taxes.

Lydia Christensen

She promises to fight any cut to Social Security benefits. Going forward, workers could stop paying their own share; employers would keep paying theirs, on all wages with no cap.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

No position on Social Security or Medicare was found on his campaign site, which sets out five priorities: affordability, universal health care, housing, a ceasefire and clean water.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

The Great Lakes and Line 5

El-Sayed's campaign backs shutting down Line 5 and making it safer until then; no position from Rogers was found. Christensen's campaign opposes the Line 5 tunnel and wants the line removed; no position from Long was found. Marsh's campaign would stop Line 5, the tunnel and corporations taking Michigan's freshwater; no position from Kristy was found.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He supports shutting down Line 5, and says that in the meantime it should be made safer without disturbing the line or sensitive environmental and tribal sites.

Mike Rogers

No position on the Great Lakes or Line 5 was found on his campaign site: the home page, his biography, the housing and health plans, and all 202 news items back to March 2025.

Lydia Christensen

She opposes the proposed Great Lakes Tunnel, which she says would keep Line 5 operating, and calls for Line 5 to be decommissioned and safely removed.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

He says senators are needed to stop Line 5 and the Line 5 tunnel, and to stop corporations from taking Michigan's freshwater.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

War and foreign policy

El-Sayed's campaign opposes the Iran war and backs an immediate arms embargo on Israel. Rogers's campaign backs the U.S. airstrikes on Iran, calling Iran an imminent threat. Christensen's campaign would vote to end the Iran war and halt military aid to Israel until human rights compliance is verified; no position from Long was found. Marsh's campaign calls for ending hostilities with Iran and ceasefires in Gaza and Ukraine; no position from Kristy was found.

What each campaign says

Abdul El-Sayed

He opposes the war in Iran and demands an immediate end to hostilities, supports an immediate arms embargo on Israel, and opposes direct military funding to foreign militaries including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Mike Rogers

He backs the U.S. airstrikes on Iran. After the strikes of February 28, 2026 he said Iran "is an imminent threat to our country and must not have a nuclear weapon." In June 2025 he said the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites made America and the world safer.

Lydia Christensen

She says she will vote for binding legislation to end the war in Iran, oppose further war funding without authorization, and vote against continued military aid to Israel until compliance with human rights law is independently verified.

Tim Long

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.

Douglas P. Marsh

He says the United States should immediately cease hostilities against Iran and use its leverage for permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere.

Walter P. Kristy

No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.

Words and record

Where statements meet official action

Each card sets one thing a candidate says beside their own official record, with one label from a fixed list and its limit. No card says why someone did something.

How the cards work

The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

His campaign says that as a state senator he wrote the legislation that created Michigan's 529 college savings program.

What the record shows ·

He was the only sponsor of the 2000 state Senate bill that set up the program; it passed both chambers without a no vote.

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His campaign says that as a state senator he wrote the legislation that created Michigan's 529 college savings program.

“He wrote the legislation that created Michigan’s 529 College Savings Program, helping families save for their children’s education.”

What the record shows ·

Senate Bill 599 of 1999 lists one sponsor, Mike Rogers of the 26th Senate district, and describes itself as establishing the Michigan education savings program. It passed the Senate 36 to 0 on May 3, 2000 and the House 105 to 0 on May 18; the Senate concurred in the House substitute 37 to 0 on May 31, and the governor approved it on June 16, 2000 as Public Act 161 of 2000.

Limit: The legislature's record ties the bill to two House bills, HB 5653 by Gary Woronchak and HB 5654 by Scott Shackleton. Both became law the same day, as Public Acts 162 and 163 of 2000, and provide the state income tax deductions for contributions; SB 599 is the act that establishes the program. The Senate Fiscal Agency's analysis says so directly: "Senate Bill 599 created the Michigan Education Savings Program Act". The claim that he wrote the legislation that created it matches the sponsor line on that act. Unanimous votes in both chambers mean the bill was not contested.

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What they say

His campaign says that in Congress he worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans.

What the record shows ·

His own bills stalled, but he voted for the 2001 law that made college savings plan withdrawals tax-free and the 2006 law that made that permanent, in nearly his bill's words.

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His campaign says that in Congress he worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans.

“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”

What the record shows ·

He sponsored three bills on it. The SAVE Act of 2001 (H.R. 475) would have kept distributions from state tuition plans used for college out of taxable income; H.R. 5054 in 2002 would have made that exclusion permanent; the SAVE Act of 2005 (H.R. 2994) would have done the same and added a deduction for contributions. He also cosponsored two: the College Savings Protection Act (H.R. 248, 2001), which would have excluded the same distributions from gross income, and the Education Savings Act of 2003 (H.R. 3318), which would have excluded from an employee's income an employer's contributions to education savings. None advanced past committee. The exclusion itself became law in section 402(b) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which he voted for on passage on May 16, 2001 (Roll Call 118) and on the conference report on May 26 (Roll Call 149). That act set it to expire after 2010; section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it permanent, and he voted Aye on that act's passage on July 28, 2006 (Roll Call 422).

Limit: His own bills stalled, but one became law inside a larger act: section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act, which he voted for, made the tax break permanent in nearly the words of his 2002 bill (H.R. 5054). "Worked to" is what the record shows: sponsorship in three Congresses, cosponsorship in two and votes for both laws. The deduction for contributions that two of his bills proposed never became federal law. The second half of the same sentence, on health care for low-income families, has its own card.

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What they say

His campaign says that in Congress he passed legislation to help low-income families receive health care.

What the record shows ·

His 2005 Medicaid bill stalled, but its program became law in nearly the same words inside the Deficit Reduction Act, which he voted for.

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What they say

His campaign says that in Congress he passed legislation to help low-income families receive health care.

“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”

What the record shows ·

In 2005 he sponsored the Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act (H.R. 3757). It would have set up a Medicaid demonstration letting states offer alternative benefits, including health opportunity accounts, to groups of enrollees. His bill stayed in subcommittee, but section 6082 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171) enacted the same demonstration in nearly the same words. He voted Yea on the act's conference report on December 19, 2005 (Roll Call 670) and on the rule that cleared it on February 1, 2006 (Roll Call 4). It became law on February 8, 2006.

Limit: His own bill did not pass; its program became law inside a larger act. The same act also gave states the option of new Medicaid premiums and cost sharing. Whether any state used the program was not checked. The test is a federal (CMS) approval of a state demonstration under section 1938 of the Social Security Act, which this act added.

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What they say

His campaign says he authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land during the burial of a service member a federal crime.

What the record shows ·

He sponsored it and it became law in 2006; it covers national cemeteries and Arlington, not all federal land, and a violation carries up to a year in prison.

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His campaign says he authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land during the burial of a service member a federal crime.

“Mike also authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land while families were burying service members who made the ultimate sacrifice a federal crime.”

What the record shows ·

He sponsored H.R. 5037, the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act. The House passed it 408 to 3 on May 9, 2006 (Roll Call 129), with his Yea, and it became Public Law 109-228 on May 29, 2006. It bars unapproved demonstrations on the grounds of cemeteries run by the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery, and demonstrations within set distances of them in the hour before and after a funeral, and makes a violation punishable by a fine, up to a year in prison, or both.

Limit: He wrote it and it is law. The campaign's summary is broader than the statute: the law covers national cemeteries and Arlington, not federal land in general, and the penalty is at most a year in prison.

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What they say

His campaign says he made his greatest mark in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

What the record shows ·

He chaired it from 2011 to 2015 and sponsored its yearly authorization bill each of those years; all five years' authorizations became law.

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His campaign says he made his greatest mark in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“Mike made his greatest mark in Congress through his service as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.”

What the record shows ·

The committee's report of May 3, 2011 on the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal 2011 records him as chairman: its record votes list "Mr. Rogers (Chairman)", and the Congressional Budget Office letter it prints is addressed to him as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He sponsored the committee's yearly authorization bill for each of fiscal 2011 to 2015, and all five years' authorizations became law. Three were his own bills: fiscal 2011 (Public Law 112-18), 2012 (Public Law 112-87) and 2015 (Public Law 113-293). For 2013 and 2014 the Senate's bills became law instead (Public Laws 112-277 and 113-126); he had sponsored the House versions, H.R. 5743 and H.R. 3381, and he moved the Senate bills through the House. H.R. 5743 passed the House 386 to 28 with his Aye. The official Congressional Directory for the 113th Congress, in its February 2014 edition, lists his committees as "chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence".

Limit: The committee's report and the Congressional Directory settle that he held the office in both Congresses from 2011 to 2015. Whether it was his greatest mark is the campaign's judgment, and the home page's line that the committee under him hunted down terrorists is not something a committee record can confirm.

Matches stated direction

What they say

His campaign says he fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly to protect Michigan's auto industry.

What the record shows ·

His 2013 bill targeting Chinese cyber espionage went nowhere. He cosponsored a 2006 counterfeit goods law that does not name China but whose findings cite losses to the auto industry.

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His campaign says he fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly to protect Michigan's auto industry.

“Mike also fought Chinese efforts to steal American intellectual property, particularly working to protect Michigan’s auto industry.”

What the record shows ·

On June 6, 2013 he sponsored the Cyber Economic Espionage Accountability Act (H.R. 2281). It would have stated that cyber economic espionage should be a priority in all economic and diplomatic talks with the People's Republic of China, and directed the President to publish a list of foreign officials responsible for cyber espionage of Americans' intellectual property, bar them from visas and freeze their assets in the United States. It was referred to subcommittee and went no further. Earlier he was an original cosponsor of the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act (H.R. 32), sponsored by fellow Michigan Republican Joe Knollenberg, which became Public Law 109-181 on March 16, 2006. Its findings state that counterfeit automobile parts, including brake pads, cost the auto industry billions of dollars in lost sales each year. As chairman, he filed his committee's April 2012 report on his cyber bill (H. Rept. 112-445). It says "China, in particular, is engaged in an extensive, day-in, day-out effort to pillage American corporate and government information." On October 8, 2012 he and the committee's top Democrat released its report on Huawei and ZTE. The committee's release calls China "a country known to aggressively steal valuable trade secrets and other sensitive data from American companies."

Limit: The 2013 bill is aimed squarely at the claim and did not advance. The 2006 law is about counterfeit goods in general and does not name China, but its findings name the auto industry, which is the part of the claim about Michigan. He also sponsored bills in 2004 and 2005 (H.R. 4986 and H.R. 2414) directing the Treasury to analyze China's exchange rate policies; they concern trade rather than intellectual property, and neither left subcommittee. The 2012 report names China but not the auto industry, and the bill it covers does not mention intellectual property. His committee's own page for its October 2012 report on Huawei and ZTE is still up, but its link to the report is dead. A Stanford library copy was read and is not cited. His sponsored bills and the 1,462 bills he cosponsored were searched by title.

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What they say

His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting America and Michigan first means.

What the record shows ·

He voted for the law adding Medicare's drug benefit and a 2004 Social Security law, and for House budget plans that kept current benefits but assumed premium support for future enrollees.

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What they say

His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting America and Michigan first means.

“That means bringing manufacturing jobs back home, lowering the cost of gas, groceries, & prescription drugs, protecting seniors’ social security & medicare, and setting our kids up for success by prioritizing education not indoctrination.”

What the record shows ·

In 2001 he sponsored the Social Security Lock-box Act (H.R. 373), which would have created a budget point of order against spending the Social Security trust fund's surplus, and the Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 2865), which would have required cuts in non-defense discretionary spending equal to any 2001 deficit; neither left committee. He voted Yea when the House passed another member's lock-box bill, H.R. 2, 407 to 2 on February 13, 2001 (Roll Call 13); it did not become law. He cosponsored bills in 2001 and 2003 (H.R. 122 and H.R. 434) to repeal the second, 85 per cent tier of income tax on Social Security benefits; neither left committee. He voted for two laws that changed the programs. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (Public Law 108-173) added the Part D prescription drug benefit; he voted Aye on passage on June 27, 2003 (Roll Call 332) and Yea on the conference report on November 22, 2003 (Roll Call 669). The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-203), whose first title is headed "Protection of Beneficiaries", had his Aye on passage on April 2, 2003 (Roll Call 102) and his Yea on the final version on February 11, 2004 (Roll Call 23). On April 15, 2011 he voted Yea on the House budget resolution for fiscal 2012 (Roll Call 277). Its Medicare section kept current benefits for those in and near retirement "without changes", and assumed that for future generations Medicare would be reformed to provide a premium support payment and a choice of guaranteed coverage options. The Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up (Record Vote 77, May 25, 2011). He voted Yea on the House's next three budget resolutions, for fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 (Roll Call 151 of 2012, 88 of 2013 and 177 of 2014), each of which assumed the same: current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations. A budget resolution does not become law. He voted No on the Affordable Care Act, which also changed Medicare, on March 21, 2010 (Roll Call 165), and Aye on repealing it on January 19, 2011 (Roll Call 14).

Limit: The claim is a promise about what he would do as a senator, and the record is a House record that ended in 2015. It runs both ways. The Social Security bills he sponsored, and the repeal of the tax on benefits he cosponsored, never became law, but he voted for two laws that changed the programs, one of which added Medicare's prescription drug benefit. He also voted for four House budget resolutions that kept current benefits for those in or near retirement and assumed premium support for future beneficiaries; a budget resolution is a plan, not a law. Whether premium support for future beneficiaries counts as protecting Medicare is a policy judgment this site does not make; the record shows what he sponsored and a selection of his votes, not every vote he cast on these programs. His cosponsored bills were searched by title; the many Medicare provider-payment bills among them are not listed here.

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What they say

In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, Rogers said he was a U.S. Army officer and an FBI special agent, and that as an agent in Chicago he did fugitive raids.

What the record shows ·

The official Congressional Directory lists him as an Army captain and an FBI special agent on public corruption and organized crime; it does not say he worked in Chicago.

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What they say

In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, Rogers said he was a U.S. Army officer and an FBI special agent, and that as an agent in Chicago he did fugitive raids.

What the record shows ·

The official Congressional Directory of 2014 lists his military service as "U.S. Army, Captain" and his work before Congress as "FBI Special Agent, assigned to public corruption and organized crime units". The House's own biography dates his Army service 1985-1989 and his FBI service 1989-1994.

Limit: Neither record says where he was posted or lists the cases he worked, so Chicago and the fugitive raids are his own account.

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What they say

In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, Rogers said that in Congress he pushed to speed up generic drugs, and that drug companies are not happy about it.

What the record shows ·

He cosponsored the House's 2007 FDA bill and voted for the law limiting ways to delay generics, plus 2003 and 2012 bills with generic drug sections; none of his own bills names generics.

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In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, Rogers said that in Congress he pushed to speed up generic drugs, and that drug companies are not happy about it.

What the record shows ·

No bill he sponsored has "generic" in its title. In 2007 he was an original cosponsor of the House's FDA bill (H.R. 2900) and voted for it and for the final bill, H.R. 3580 (Roll Calls 617 and 885). That law, Public Law 110-85, bars a drug's maker from using its required safety restrictions to block or delay a generic, and limits how far petitions can delay a generic's approval. He was an original cosponsor of the Pathway for Biosimilars Act in 2008 and 2009 (H.R. 5629 and H.R. 1548), which would have set up a way to approve copies of biologic drugs, but not until 12 years after the original was licensed; neither left committee. He voted for the 2003 Medicare law (Roll Call 669), whose title XI, "Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals", changed the rules for generic drug applications. In 2012 he voted for the House's FDA bill (H.R. 5651, Roll Call 294), which set fees on generic drug applications, including a one-time fee on the backlog, to pay for the FDA's generic drug work; those fees became law that year in the final bill, S. 3187 (Public Law 112-144). A biosimilar approval route with the same 12-year wait became law in 2010 in the Affordable Care Act, which he voted against (Roll Call 165).

Limit: "Pushed" is his word. The record shows his cosponsorships and votes, not what he did behind the scenes, and each of these laws did much more than generic drugs.

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What they say

He says he has never taken a dime of corporate money, and his campaign says it is funded by people, not corporations.

What the record shows ·

His federal filings through July 15, 2026 show no money from corporate PACs; about half of one percent came from other PACs, including labor unions.

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He says he has never taken a dime of corporate money, and his campaign says it is funded by people, not corporations.

“never taken a dime of corporate money”

What the record shows ·

Through July 15, 2026 his committee's filings carry 23 contributions from political committees, $71,845.23 in all, and none is from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. They come from hybrid PACs ($27,825 from six), leadership PACs ($17,000 from four), labor union PACs ($15,500 from four: the UAW's, National Nurses United's, the Communications Workers' and the Office and Professional Employees'), and the rest from other PACs and from committees named for four other candidates. He reported no party money and no joint fundraising transfers. Contributions from individuals were $14,408,058.06 of $14,514,335.93 in receipts.

Limit: A corporation cannot give to a federal campaign directly, so corporate money reaches a candidate through a corporation's PAC, and that is what the filings were read for. They show none. The home page's wording that the campaign is "100% funded by people like you" is not literal: about half of one per cent of receipts came from PACs, including labor unions, and the card does not treat that as corporate money. He resigned as Detroit's health director in February 2017 to run for governor of Michigan, and that campaign's state filings, which "never" also covers, were not read; the claim is tested here against his federal committee only. The filings run to July 15, 2026, and the October quarterly report will extend them.

Matches stated direction

What they say

He says he erased medical debt for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County. His biography puts it as a program he spearheaded that will cancel up to $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders over two years.

What the record shows

He led a Wayne County program that erased $95.8 million in debt for 102,246 people, about a third of the 300,000 he cites.

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He says he erased medical debt for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County. His biography puts it as a program he spearheaded that will cancel up to $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders over two years.

“I erased it for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County.”

What the record shows

As Wayne County's health director he announced the program in March 2024 with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, funded to relieve up to $700 million in medical debt for residents earning under 400 per cent of the federal poverty level or owing more than 5 per cent of their income, as his July 11, 2024 Senate testimony describes. The county's results dashboard, read on September 23, 2026, reports 102,246 people helped and $95,790,771.80 in debt relieved at face value, using $709,202.89 in county money. Bridge Michigan reported the county's figure on June 25, 2026 as $57.4 million for 83,291 residents.

Limit: He says upwards of 300,000 people. The county's own count is 102,246, about a third of that. The label credits the program he led, not the number. Face value is what the debt was worth, not what it cost to buy. The dashboard gives no as-of date, and the program started in 2024, so not all of it falls in his time as director.

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What they say

In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, El-Sayed called himself a doctor and said he has a medical degree from Columbia University.

What the record shows ·

Columbia says he holds a medical degree from its College of Physicians and Surgeons; a degree is not a license to practice, which this does not check.

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What they say

In the October 8 WOOD TV8 debate, El-Sayed called himself a doctor and said he has a medical degree from Columbia University.

What the record shows ·

In a 2015 article on Detroit choosing him as its health director, Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where he was an assistant professor of epidemiology, wrote that he "holds a medical degree from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons" and a DPhil from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Limit: This is Columbia's own account, not a copy of the diploma. A medical degree is not a license to practice medicine, and this card does not check one.

No assessment

What they say

Her campaign says it takes no PAC or corporate money and launched with under $1,000.

What the record shows ·

Her committee has filed no money report, telling the FEC in July 2026 that it had not raised or spent more than $5,000.

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Her campaign says it takes no PAC or corporate money and launched with under $1,000.

“No PACs, no corporate money”

What the record shows ·

Her committee has filed no financial report with the FEC. It has instead filed Form 99 statements, most recently on July 2, 2026, saying it has not raised or spent more than $5,000 in the cycle and so is not required to file periodic reports.

Why there is no assessment here

A campaign below the $5,000 threshold files no itemized receipts, so there is no filing line to read for PAC or corporate money. Her committee's statements are consistent with a small campaign but say nothing about where its money came from, and every label in the list would misstate why this claim is not judged.

Limit: Nothing here says the claim is wrong, and nothing here says it is right. If the committee crosses $5,000 and files a report, lines 11B, 11C and 12 of that report will answer it.

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What they say

In the October 21 WXYZ debate, Rogers said that he put in the $150 million to make sure 9/11 heroes are taken care of.

What the record shows ·

In 2010 he offered a committee amendment setting one year of the program at $150 million; it failed 19 to 30, and he voted twice against the bill that became law.

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In the October 21 WXYZ debate, Rogers said that he put in the $150 million to make sure 9/11 heroes are taken care of.

What the record shows ·

The Energy and Commerce Committee's 2010 report on H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, says that Rogers offered an amendment to write the existing World Trade Center health program at NIOSH into law and set its funding for fiscal year 2011 at President Obama's requested level of $150 million. The committee rejected it, 19 to 30, and reported the larger bill 33 to 12; Rogers signed the dissenting views. On the House floor he voted Nay on Roll Call 491 and No on Roll Call 550 on H.R. 847, and did not vote on Roll Call 664, when the House agreed to the Senate's version. It became Public Law 111-347.

Limit: He did propose $150 million for the program, but as a one-year amount in an amendment the committee voted down, not money that his amendment put into law. The bill that became law, which he voted against twice and did not vote on at the end, set longer, larger funding. Whether money was later appropriated at that level is not checked here.

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What they say

In the October 21 WXYZ debate, El-Sayed said that when the Flint water crisis hit, he had every school, daycare and Head Start tested for lead in the water.

What the record shows ·

As Detroit's health director in 2016 he led a grant-funded offer of testing; all 94 district buildings met lead standards, but the city could not require testing and some chose not to.

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In the October 21 WXYZ debate, El-Sayed said that when the Flint water crisis hit, he had every school, daycare and Head Start tested for lead in the water.

What the record shows ·

Michigan Public reported on April 6, 2016 that the Detroit health department, with El-Sayed as its director, would reach out to charters, pre-schools, day cares and Head Starts about testing their water, and that the city could not compel schools to do it. The same report said Detroit Public Schools had already tested 60 schools by then, and it named a $135,000 grant from the Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation for the testing. On August 30, 2016 it reported the city's finding that all 94 school buildings in the Detroit Public Schools Community District met federal standards for lead in water, and El-Sayed called the testing a one-time opportunity. The city's own results page says the health department paid to screen three water outlets in each building, and that where a school or daycare center has no record, its administration chose not to be tested.

Limit: The record shows he led a citywide offer of testing and that every district school building met the lead standard. Detroit Public Schools had begun testing before the city's push. The record does not show that every school, daycare and Head Start was tested: the city could not require it, and its own page says some chose not to. This card did not count how many daycares and Head Starts appear in the city's results.

Matches stated direction

What they say

In the October 21 WXYZ debate, El-Sayed said that he outraised Rogers three times.

What the record shows ·

Through September 30, 2026 his campaign reported $45.2 million in receipts to Rogers's $20.5 million, about 2.2 times as much.

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In the October 21 WXYZ debate, El-Sayed said that he outraised Rogers three times.

What the record shows ·

The FEC's summary for 2025-2026, covering January 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, shows $45,175,566.89 in total receipts for his committee, Abdul for U.S. Senate, and $20,495,814.00 for Rogers for Senate, about 2.2 times as much. Transfers from other authorized committees make up $4,953,348.11 of his total and $5,478,269.26 of Rogers's.

Limit: He did raise more. If "three times" means three times as much, his total receipts for the cycle were about 2.2 times Rogers's (about 2.7 times without transfers from other committees). If it means more in three reporting periods, this card did not check that. The figures cover each principal campaign committee only, not super PACs or other groups, and Rogers's money raised for his 2024 race is not counted.

Campaign finance

FEC snapshot through Jul 15, 2026

Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.

CandidateCycle receiptsCycle disbursementsCash on handDebt owed
Abdul El-SayedC00902668$2,305,929$2,483,296$2,552,763$0
Mike RogersC00849810$315,714$1,566,303$4,414,988$0
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Abdul El-Sayed: Pre-Primary 2026 (amended), coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Aug 11, 2026, file 2005721, image 202608119899481939.

Mike Rogers: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Jul 23, 2026, file 2001576, image 202607239894435071.

Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 23, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.

Chronology

How the field took shape

  1. Michigan's education savings program becomes law

    The governor approved Senate Bill 599 of 1999, sponsored by then-state senator Mike Rogers, as Public Act 161 of 2000.

  2. Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act becomes law

    H.R. 5037, sponsored by Rogers, became Public Law 109-228 after passing the House 408 to 3.

  3. House adopts the fiscal 2012 budget resolution

    Rogers voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 34, whose Medicare section assumed a premium support payment for future beneficiaries. On May 25 the Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up.

  4. El-Sayed testifies to the Senate health committee

    As Wayne County's director and health officer, he described the county's medical debt program, announced in March 2024, as funded to relieve up to $700 million in debt.

  5. Pre-primary reporting period closes

    The latest period both El-Sayed's and Rogers's committees have reported to the FEC ends. None of the other four candidates has filed a financial report.

  6. State candidate listing as of this date

    The Michigan Department of State's listing, headed "Official Candidate Listing" when read on September 23, prints six U.S. Senate candidates, with a footer dated Friday, September 4. The field on this page is built from it.

The details

Election facts. Original sources.

Election date
November 3, 2026
Ballot source updated
Official candidate listing dated September 4, 2026; reviewed September 26, 2026.
Candidate field
Candidates checked against the state's official candidate listing.

Coverage

What this page includes, and what is not yet included.

As of Nov 10, 2026. Only what passed a source check is listed. How coverage works.

  • BallotIncluded

    6 printed candidates, checked September 2, 2026 against the official election record.

  • Race outlookIncluded

    1 of 1 specialist rating is current as of Nov 10, 2026.

  • Reported contextNot yet

    The candidate field remains provisional because the state source labels its listing unofficial; campaign context stays unpublished until the field is final.

  • Words and recordIncluded

    16 statement-to-action comparisons across 6 candidate records, each with a stated limitation.

  • Campaign financeIncluded

    FEC filing snapshots for 2 principal campaign committees, with a common coverage cutoff.

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Sources146 source records

Snapshot as of Nov 10, 2026. The live page may have changed: https://statedrecord.com/races/michigan-us-senate-2026

How we use sources

  1. Michigan Department of State official candidate listinghttps://mi-boe.entellitrak.com/etk-mi-boe-prod/page.request.do?electionType=GEN&electionYear=2026&page=page.miboePublicReport
    Official Candidate Listing, All State and Judicial Offices, General Election, November 3, 2026

    Michigan Department of State · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The state's candidate listing, read 2026-09-23. It prints six U.S. Senate candidates in this order, each with party, filing date and filing method, and its footer reads "721 Candidates as of Fri Sep 04 08:48:42 EDT"; the footer prints no year, and September 4 fell on a Friday in 2026. On 2026-09-23 its header read "Official Candidate Listing"; this project recorded it on 2026-09-02 as an unofficial listing current as of August 31, 2026. Captured file SHA-256 e3551674a96aebc1d295336d857a9b626ab38177823ed5357214a40b038b1938.

    official election record

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context; Candidate roles and profiles; Lydia Christensen: background, goals, record and money; Tim Long: background, goals, record and money; Douglas P. Marsh: background, goals, record and money; Walter P. Kristy: background, goals, record and money; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  2. How these races were chosenhttps://statedrecord.com/methodology#race-selection

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context

  3. Sabato's Crystal Ball ratingshttps://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2026-senate/

    For: Election facts, ratings and race context

  4. What Can Congress Do to End the Medical Debt Crisis in America?https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/what-can-congress-do-to-end-the-medical-debt-crisis-in-america

    U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions · Published Jul 11, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The committee's hearing page for July 11, 2024. It lists him as a witness under the title "Director & Health Officer, Wayne County Dept of Health, Human & Veterans Services".

    official legislative record

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  5. Campaign home pagehttps://abdulforsenate.com/

    Abdul for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Carries the line "Paid for by Abdul for U.S. Senate", and the domain matches the website his principal committee filed with the FEC. Links his X, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, YouTube and TikTok accounts.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Abdul El-Sayed: Money from corporations

  6. Mike Rogers, member recordhttps://api.congress.gov/v3/member/R000572

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Resolved from Congress.gov's by-state member listing for Michigan and name-checked: Rogers, Mike J., Republican, seven House terms for Michigan's 8th district from 2001 to 2015. A different member, Mike Rogers of Alabama, has his own record and is not this one. The official Biographical Directory, bioguide.congress.gov, returned a Cloudflare challenge page (HTTP 403) and was not read; the official Congressional Directory on GovInfo (cdir-2014-mi) was read instead.

    official office record

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  7. Campaign home pagehttps://rogersforsenate.com/

    Rogers for Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Carries the line "Paid for by Rogers for Senate", and the domain matches the website his principal committee filed with the FEC. Links his X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Costs of living and taxes; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  8. About Lydia Christensenhttps://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/about

    Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. The site is built in the browser: a plain request returns an empty page shell, and the text is served from the site's own script file (https://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/main.js), which is what the quote checks read. The domain matches the website her committee filed with the FEC. It links an X account and a Facebook page.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Lydia Christensen: background, goals, record and money; Lydia Christensen: No PAC or corporate money

  9. COMMITTEE TO ELECT TIMOTHY E LONG TO THE US SENATEhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00957514/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal campaign committee for candidate S6MI00566 ("LONG, TIMOTHY E", U.S. Taxpayers Party). Its only filing is a Statement of Organization received July 27, 2026, which lists no website. It has filed no financial report.

    fec filing

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Tim Long: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  10. Vote MARSH for Michiganhttps://www.electmarsh.org/

    Committee to Elect Douglas P. Marsh · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. A one-page site whose domain matches the website his committee filed with the FEC. It sets out five priorities and links no social account.

    candidate statement

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Douglas P. Marsh: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  11. KRISTY, WALTER P., candidate S6MI00590https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S6MI00590/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The FEC's candidate record, party Natural Law Party. OpenFEC lists no committee of any designation for this candidate and no filing under his candidate ID.

    fec filing

    For: Candidate roles and profiles; Walter P. Kristy: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  12. Meet Abdulhttps://abdulforsenate.com/about/

    Abdul for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Used for his biography and for the campaign's account of his work in Detroit and Wayne County.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  13. Priorities: Money Out of Politicshttps://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-out-of-politics/

    Abdul for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers campaign finance, elections, civil rights, immigration, the environment, water and foreign policy.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy; Abdul El-Sayed: Money from corporations

  14. Priorities: Medicare for Allhttps://abdulforsenate.com/priority/medicare-for-all-the-path-to-a-healthier-america/

    Abdul for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers health care, veterans, drug prices and public health.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Social Security and Medicare; Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  15. Priorities: Money in Your Pockethttps://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-in-your-pocket/

    Abdul for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers jobs, trade, taxes, technology, housing, education and farming.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  16. Written testimony of Abdul El-Sayed, "Eliminating Medical Debt: The View from Wayne County, Michigan" (document)

    U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions · Published Jul 11, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    His written testimony as filed with the committee, dated July 11, 2024. It describes the Wayne County program as announced in March 2024 with Undue Medical Debt to relieve debts "totaling up to $700 million" and gives no count of residents relieved. A PDF, read by text extraction; captured file SHA-256 64de2b08752505971b3e1001702abe57c8bc705d1a68f6d621da422c38d8cda3.

    official legislative record

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  17. ABDUL FOR U.S. SENATE, contributions from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00902668&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Read on 2026-09-23 through tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads lines 11B, 11C and 12 only. Line 11C holds 23 rows totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions; lines 11B and 12 hold none. The committee's cycle totals through July 15, 2026, read from the same API, report $14,514,335.93 in receipts, of which $14,408,058.06 are contributions from individuals.

    fec filing

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: background, goals, record and money; Abdul El-Sayed: Money from corporations

  18. Official Congressional Directory, 113th Congress (February 2014), Michigan delegationhttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CDIR-2014-02-18/CDIR-2014-02-18-MI

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Feb 18, 2014 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The official directory's entry for the Eighth District, Mike Rogers, Republican, of Howell. It gives "military service: U.S. Army, Captain", "professional: FBI Special Agent, assigned to public corruption and organized crime units", "committees: chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence", and says he was elected to the 107th Congress on November 7, 2000 and reelected to each succeeding Congress. Read as the GovInfo granule CDIR-2014-02-18-MI.

    official legislative record

    Official Congressional Directory, 2014, Michigan

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; Mike Rogers: Army officer and FBI agent; Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  19. House Report 112-72, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-112hrpt72

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published May 3, 2011 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Committee report of May 3, 2011, submitted by "Mr. Rogers of Michigan, from the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)". Its record votes list "Mr. Rogers (Chairman)", and the Congressional Budget Office letter it prints is addressed to "Hon. Mike Rogers, Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence".

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  20. Senate Bill 599 of 1999 (Public Act 161 of 2000)https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=1999-SB-0599

    Michigan Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The legislature's bill record. It lists one sponsor, "Mike Rogers (District 26)", describes the bill as establishing the Michigan education savings program, and records its passage and approval by the governor on June 16, 2000 as Public Act 161 of 2000. It is tie-barred to House Bills 5653 and 5654 of 2000, the income tax deduction bills that became Public Acts 162 and 163 of 2000.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Michigan's 529 college savings program; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  21. ROGERS, Mike (R000572), Biographical Directoryhttps://history.house.gov/People/Detail/20789

    U.S. House of Representatives, History, Art & Archives · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026

    The House's biography of Michigan's Mike Rogers, born 1963 (not the Alabama member of the same name). It gives "United States Army, 1985-1989; Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1989-1994".

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Army officer and FBI agent

  22. Meet Mikehttps://rogersforsenate.com/meet-mike

    Rogers for Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. The campaign's biography, and the source of every claim about his record tested on this desk.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; The Great Lakes and Line 5; Mike Rogers: Michigan's 529 college savings program; Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans; Mike Rogers: Health care for low-income families; Mike Rogers: Protests at military funerals; Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  23. Housing Planhttps://rogersforsenate.com/housingplan

    Rogers for Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Housing

  24. Healthcare Planhttps://rogersforsenate.com/healthplan

    Rogers for Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Health care

  25. Op-ed: The Working Families Tax Cuts Are a Game-Changer For Michiganhttps://rogersforsenate.com/news/op-ed-the-working-families-tax-cuts-are-a-game-changer-for-michigan

    Rogers for Senate · Published Apr 15, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. His op-ed of April 15, 2026, first printed in The Midwesterner and posted on his campaign site.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Costs of living and taxes; Social Security and Medicare

  26. Rogers Calls for Suspension of State and Federal Gas Taxhttps://rogersforsenate.com/news/rogers-calls-for-suspension-of-state-and-federal-gas-tax

    Rogers for Senate · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Press release of September 17, 2026.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Costs of living and taxes

  27. H.R. 5037, Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, 109th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/5037

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsor, Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]; action list; became Public Law 109-228 on May 29, 2006.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Protests at military funerals; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  28. Public Law 109-228, Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-109publ228

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text: a new 38 U.S.C. 2413 on demonstrations at cemeteries under the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery, and a penalty of a fine, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Protests at military funerals; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  29. H.Con.Res. 34, concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2012https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/34

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Adopted by the House 235 to 193 on April 15, 2011 (Roll Call 277); the Senate rejected a motion to proceed to it 40 to 57 on May 25, 2011 (Record Vote 77). Section 501 of the engrossed text, read at GovInfo (BILLS-112hconres34eh), states the resolution's Medicare assumptions.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  30. Roll Call 277, H.Con.Res. 34, on agreeing to the resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2011277

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of April 15, 2011, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology

  31. H.R. 1892, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1892

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; passed the House 384 to 14 on September 9, 2011 (Roll Call 698) and became Public Law 112-87 on January 3, 2012.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money; Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  32. Roll Call 698, H.R. 1892, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2011698

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of September 9, 2011, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  33. H.R. 3523, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, 112th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/3523

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; passed the House 248 to 168 on April 26, 2012 (Roll Call 192); received in the Senate and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  34. Roll Call 192, H.R. 3523, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2012192

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of April 26, 2012, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  35. H.R. 624, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, 113th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/624

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; passed the House 288 to 127 on April 18, 2013 (Roll Call 117); received in the Senate and referred to committee.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  36. Roll Call 117, H.R. 624, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2013117

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of April 18, 2013, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  37. ROGERS FOR SENATE, contributions and transfers from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00849810&two_year_transaction_period=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Read on 2026-09-23 through tools/fec-money/money.py, lines 11B, 11C and 12 only. Line 11B: one row, $62,000. Line 11C: 207 rows of which 10 are memo entries; the 197 counted total $787,227.09. Line 12: 7,124 rows of which 7,086 are memo entries itemizing money already counted; the 38 counted total $3,139,681.67. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it.

    fec filing

    For: Mike Rogers: background, goals, record and money

  38. Issues & Platformhttps://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/issues

    Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Fifty-two issue entries in eleven categories, rendered in the browser from the site's own data file (https://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/get_issues.php), which is what the quote checks read. The page says its policies are living documents that she updates.

    candidate statement

    For: Lydia Christensen: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  39. LYDIA CHRISTENSEN FOR UNITED STATES SENATE, miscellaneous submission of July 2, 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    A Form 99 statement (file 1987784) that the committee "has not raised or spent more than $5,000" in the cycle as of that date and is therefore not filing periodic reports. The committee has filed six such statements since July 2025 and no financial report.

    fec filing

    For: Lydia Christensen: background, goals, record and money; Lydia Christensen: No PAC or corporate money

  40. Candidates for U.S. Senate, Michigan, 2026https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/senate/?state=MI&election_year=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-23: 25 candidate records for the seat, used to match each printed candidate to an FEC candidate ID and principal committee by name and party.

    fec filing

    For: Tim Long: background, goals, record and money; Walter P. Kristy: background, goals, record and money

  41. Candidateshttps://ustpm.org/candidates

    U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The party's candidates page, read in a browser on 2026-09-23 because the site is built in the browser. It read "No candidates have been added yet."

    endorsement

    For: Tim Long: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  42. COMMITTEE TO ELECT DOUGLAS P. MARSH, filingshttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00875971/?tab=filings

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal committee for candidate S4MI00512, active in the 2024 and 2026 cycles. Its filings are two Statements of Organization (April 12, 2024 and July 1, 2026), a Form 99 statement of June 6, 2024, and a request for additional information from the FEC. It has filed no financial report.

    fec filing

    For: Douglas P. Marsh: background, goals, record and money

  43. COMMITTEE TO ELECT DOUGLAS P. MARSH, miscellaneous submission of June 6, 2024 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    A Form 99 statement (file 1787585) answering an FEC notice, declaring that the committee had not raised or spent more than $5,000. It concerns the 2024 cycle.

    fec filing

    For: Douglas P. Marsh: background, goals, record and money

  44. Natural Law Party in Michiganhttps://nlpmi.org/

    Natural Law Party of Michigan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The party's site. On 2026-09-23 it answered with a Cloudflare challenge page (HTTP 403) and was not read.

    endorsement

    For: Walter P. Kristy: background, goals, record and money; Health care; Costs of living and taxes; Housing; Social Security and Medicare; The Great Lakes and Line 5; War and foreign policy

  45. Op-ed: Democrats turned their backs on working familieshttps://rogersforsenate.com/news/7t0qw9eho3lf8i19j908ihnl3kedda

    Rogers for Senate · Published Jul 2, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. His op-ed of July 2, 2026, first printed in The Midwesterner. Only his own position is used; its lines about his opponents are out of scope.

    candidate statement

    For: Social Security and Medicare

  46. Newshttps://rogersforsenate.com/news

    Rogers for Senate · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. An index of press releases, read for positions. Its items about his opponent are out of scope for this site and are not used. All 202 items back to March 2025 were read through the site's own feed on 2026-09-23.

    candidate statement

    For: The Great Lakes and Line 5

  47. Rogers Statement on U.S. Airstrikes on Iranhttps://rogersforsenate.com/news/rogers-statement-on-us-airstrikes-on-iran

    Rogers for Senate · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Press release of February 28, 2026.

    candidate statement

    For: War and foreign policy

  48. Rogers Statement on U.S. Airstrikes on Iran Nuclear Siteshttps://rogersforsenate.com/news/rogers-statement-on-us-airstrikes-on-iran-nuclear-sites

    Rogers for Senate · Published Jun 23, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Press release of June 23, 2025.

    candidate statement

    For: War and foreign policy

  49. House Bill 5653 of 2000 (Public Act 162 of 2000)https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=1999-HB-5653

    Michigan Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The legislature's bill record. Sponsor Gary Woronchak; described as providing income tax deductions and addbacks for contributions to and withdrawals from the Michigan education savings program; tie-barred to SB 599; approved by the governor June 16, 2000 and assigned Public Act 162 of 2000.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Michigan's 529 college savings program

  50. House Bill 5654 of 2000 (Public Act 163 of 2000)https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=1999-HB-5654

    Michigan Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The legislature's bill record. Sponsor Scott Shackleton; described as providing deductions for tax deferred education savings account contributions; tie-barred to SB 599; approved by the governor June 16, 2000 and assigned Public Act 163 of 2000.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Michigan's 529 college savings program

  51. S.B. 599 & H.B. 5653 & 5654: Enrolled Analysis (document)

    Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency · Published Jan 23, 2001 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026

    The Senate Fiscal Agency's analysis, completed January 23, 2001, after the bills became Public Acts 161, 162 and 163 of 2000. It lists Senator Mike Rogers as sponsor of S.B. 599 and says the two House bills amended the Income Tax Act.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Michigan's 529 college savings program

  52. H.R. 475, Securing Affordable Vocational and Collegiate Education (SAVE) Act, 107th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/475

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsorship and the summary: a limited deduction for payments to a qualified state tuition program, and no income tax on distributions used for qualified higher education expenses. Referred to committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  53. H.R. 5054, 107th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/5054

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsorship and the summary: it would have exempted the 2001 act's tuition-program changes from that act's sunset, making them permanent. Referred to committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  54. H.R. 2994, SAVE Act of 2005, 109th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/2994

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsorship and the summary: it would have made the 2001 act's tuition-program changes permanent and allowed a deduction of up to $5,000 ($10,000 joint) for payments into a plan. Referred to committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  55. H.R. 248, College Savings Protection Act, 107th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/248

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Spencer Bachus; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 13, 2001. Summary: exclusion from gross income of distributions from state tuition programs used for qualified higher education expenses. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  56. H.R. 3318, Education Savings Act of 2003, 108th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3318

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Jon Porter; he is listed as an original cosponsor. Summary: exclude from an employee's gross income an employer's contributions to an education savings entity under an educational assistance program. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  57. Public Law 107-16, Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-107publ16

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 402(b), "Exclusion From Gross Income of Education Distributions From Qualified Tuition Programs", is the provision the card relies on.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  58. Roll Call 118, H.R. 1836, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2001118

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 16, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Votes from 2001 carry no member ID, so he is read as "Rogers (MI)", distinct from "Rogers (KY)" in the same list.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  59. Roll Call 149, H.R. 1836, on agreeing to the conference reporthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2001149

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 26, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by name and state, as "Rogers (MI)".

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  60. Public Law 109-280, Pension Protection Act of 2006https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-109publ280

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 1304 provides that the 2001 act's sunset "shall not apply to section 402 of such Act (relating to modifications to qualified tuition programs)".

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  61. Roll Call 422, H.R. 4, Pension Protection Act of 2006, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2006422

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of July 28, 2006, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Federal taxes on education savings plans

  62. H.R. 3757, Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act of 2005https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/3757

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him on September 13, 2005; summary read for what it would do; referred to the Subcommittee on Health, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Health care for low-income families

  63. Public Law 109-171, Deficit Reduction Act of 2005https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-109publ171

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Feb 8, 2006 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 6082, "Health Opportunity Accounts", sets up the Medicaid demonstration. Section 6041 gives states an option for alternative Medicaid premiums and cost sharing. Became law February 8, 2006.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Health care for low-income families

  64. Roll Call 670, S. 1932, conference reporthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2005670

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of December 19, 2005, 212 to 206, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Health care for low-income families

  65. Roll Call 4, H. Res. 653, rule clearing S. 1932https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20064

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 1, 2006, 216 to 214, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572. Under the rule, adopting it counted as the House agreeing to the Senate's final changes to S. 1932 (Congress.gov actions).

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Health care for low-income families

  66. Roll Call 129, H.R. 5037, on motion to suspend the rules and passhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2006129

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 9, 2006 (408 to 3), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protests at military funerals

  67. H.R. 754, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/754

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; became Public Law 112-18.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  68. H.R. 4681, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4681

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; became Public Law 113-293.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  69. H.R. 5743, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5743

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; passed the House 386 to 28 on May 31, 2012 (Roll Call 301). The Senate's bill for the same year became law instead.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  70. Roll Call 301, H.R. 5743, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2012301

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 31, 2012, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  71. S. 3454, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3454

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The Senate's bill. Mr. Rogers (MI) moved its passage in the House, which passed it 373 to 29 on December 31, 2012 (Roll Call 652). Public Law 112-277, January 14, 2013.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  72. Roll Call 652, S. 3454, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2012652

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of December 31, 2012, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  73. H.R. 3381, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3381

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; reported by his committee and placed on the Union Calendar on November 25, 2013. The Senate's bill for the same year became law instead.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  74. S. 1681, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1681

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The Senate's bill. Mr. Rogers (MI) moved its passage in the House, which passed it by voice vote on June 24, 2014. Public Law 113-126, July 7, 2014.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee

  75. H.R. 2281, Cyber Economic Espionage Accountability Act, 113th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2281

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him on June 6, 2013; summary read for what it would do; referred to subcommittee, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  76. H.R. 32, Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act, 109th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/32

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Joe Knollenberg [R-MI-9]; he is listed as an original cosponsor. Became Public Law 109-181 on March 16, 2006. Found by searching the 1,462 bills Congress.gov lists as his cosponsorships.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  77. Public Law 109-181, Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-109publ181

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Its findings state that "counterfeit automobile parts, including brake pads, cost the auto industry alone billions of dollars in lost sales each year". The act does not name China.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  78. H.R. 4986, Currency Rate Adjustment and Trade Enforcement Act, 108th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4986

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him. Summary: directs the Treasury to analyze the People's Republic of China's exchange rate policies. Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  79. H.R. 2414, Currency Rate Adjustment and Trade Enforcement Act, 109th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/2414

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him. Summary: directs the Treasury to analyze the People's Republic of China's exchange rate policies. Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  80. House Report 112-445, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-112hrpt445

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Apr 17, 2012 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    His committee's report of April 17, 2012 on his bill H.R. 3523, submitted by "Mr. Rogers of Michigan". It says the attacks are "often aimed at stealing the corporate research and development information" of American companies, and names China.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  81. Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger Warn American Companies Doing Business with Huawei and ZTE to “use another vendor”https://intelligence.house.gov/2012/10/08/chairman-rogers-and-ranking-member-ruppersberger-warn-american-companies-doing-business-with-huawei-and-zte-to-use-another-vendor/

    House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence · Published Oct 8, 2012 · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026

    The committee's release of October 8, 2012, still on its site. It names Chairman Mike Rogers and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger as releasing the Huawei and ZTE report. The report's own PDF link on the committee site returns 404.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Chinese theft of American intellectual property

  82. H.R. 373, Social Security Lock-box Act of 2001https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/373

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; summary read; referred to committee, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  83. H.R. 2865, Social Security Protection Act, 107th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/2865

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by him; summary read; referred to committee, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  84. H.R. 2, Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act of 2001, 107th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/2

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Wally Herger, not by him. Passed the House 407 to 2 on February 13, 2001 (Roll Call 13); in the Senate it went no further than committee referral and discharge.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  85. Roll Call 13, H.R. 2, on motion to suspend the rules and pass, as amendedhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/200113

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 13, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by name and state, as "Rogers (MI)", distinct from "Rogers (KY)".

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  86. H.R. 122, Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2001https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/122

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 6, 2001. Summary: repeal the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  87. H.R. 434, Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2003https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/434

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 11, 2003. The 108th-Congress version of H.R. 122. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  88. H.R. 1, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/1

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Speaker Dennis Hastert. Became Public Law 108-173 on December 8, 2003.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  89. Public Law 108-173, Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-108publ173

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. It adds a new "Part D--Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program" to Medicare. Title XI, "Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals", changes the rules for generic drug applications.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  90. Roll Call 332, H.R. 1, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2003332

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of June 27, 2003 (216 to 215), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  91. Roll Call 669, H.R. 1, on agreeing to the conference reporthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2003669

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of November 22, 2003 (220 to 215), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  92. H.R. 743, Social Security Protection Act of 2004https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/743

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Clay Shaw. Became Public Law 108-203 on March 2, 2004.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  93. Public Law 108-203, Social Security Protection Act of 2004https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-108publ203

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Its first title is headed "Protection of Beneficiaries" and begins with a subtitle on representative payees.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  94. Roll Call 102, H.R. 743, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2003102

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of April 2, 2003 (396 to 28), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  95. Roll Call 23, H.R. 743, on agreeing to the Senate amendmenthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/200423

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 11, 2004 (402 to 19), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  96. H.Con.Res. 112, concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/112

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Adopted by the House 228 to 191 on March 29, 2012 (Roll Call 151). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-112hconres112eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in and near retirement and premium support for future generations.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  97. Roll Call 151, H.Con.Res. 112, on agreeing to the resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2012151

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 29, 2012, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  98. H.Con.Res. 25, concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2014https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/25

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Adopted by the House 221 to 207 on March 21, 2013 (Roll Call 88). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-113hconres25eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  99. Roll Call 88, H.Con.Res. 25, on agreeing to the concurrent resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201388

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 21, 2013, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  100. H.Con.Res. 96, concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2015https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/96

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Adopted by the House 219 to 205 on April 10, 2014 (Roll Call 177). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-113hconres96eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  101. Roll Call 177, H.Con.Res. 96, on agreeing to the resolutionhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2014177

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of April 10, 2014, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  102. Public Law 111-148, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-111publ148

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Enacted text. Title III, subtitle B is headed "Improving Medicare for Patients and Providers". Section 7002 sets up an approval pathway for biosimilar biological products, effective no sooner than 12 years after the original was first licensed.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  103. Roll Call 165, H.R. 3590, motion to concur in Senate amendmentshttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2010165

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 21, 2010, on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare; Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  104. Roll Call 14, H.R. 2, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2011014

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Recorded vote of January 19, 2011, on H.R. 2, the House bill to repeal the 2010 health care law, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Protecting Social Security and Medicare

  105. WOOD TV8 debate, October 8: Rogers on his FBI work in Chicagohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U&t=1165s

    WOOD TV8 · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    19:25. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: Army officer and FBI agent

  106. WOOD TV8 debate, October 8: Rogers on his Army and FBI servicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U&t=1675s

    WOOD TV8 · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    27:55, repeated in his closing at 55:08. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: Army officer and FBI agent

  107. WOOD TV8 debate, October 8: Rogers on generic drugshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U&t=934s

    WOOD TV8 · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    15:34. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  108. Mike Rogers (R000572), sponsored legislationhttps://www.congress.gov/member/mike-rogers/R000572

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    All 129 bills, resolutions and amendments he sponsored, read from the Congress.gov API on October 10, 2026. None has "generic" in its title; his 23 amendments carry no title.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  109. H.R. 2900 (110th Congress), Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-110hr2900ih

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jun 28, 2007 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Text as introduced, naming Mr. Rogers of Michigan among the original cosponsors. It would bar using a drug's required safety restrictions to block or delay approval of a generic (section 505(j)) application.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  110. Roll Call 617, H.R. 2900, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2007617

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jul 11, 2007 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Recorded vote of July 11, 2007 (403 to 16), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  111. Roll Call 885, H.R. 3580, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2007885

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Sep 19, 2007 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Recorded vote of September 19, 2007 (405 to 7), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  112. Public Law 110-85, Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-110publ85

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Sep 27, 2007 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Enacted text of H.R. 3580, signed September 27, 2007. Section 901 bars using a drug's required safety restrictions to block or delay a generic application; section 914 limits delays to generic approvals from citizen petitions.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  113. H.R. 5629 (110th Congress), Pathway for Biosimilars Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-bill/5629

    Congress.gov · Published Mar 13, 2008 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsored by Anna Eshoo; he was an original cosponsor. Last action: referred to a Judiciary subcommittee on April 14, 2008.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  114. H.R. 1548 (111th Congress), Pathway for Biosimilars Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1548

    Congress.gov · Published Mar 17, 2009 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Sponsored by Anna Eshoo; he was an original cosponsor. The summary says approval of a copy could not take effect until 12 years after the original was first licensed. Last action: referred to the Subcommittee on Health on March 18, 2009.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  115. H.R. 5651 (112th Congress), Food and Drug Administration Reform Act of 2012https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-112hr5651eh

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published May 30, 2012 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Text as passed by the House. Title III, the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012, sets FDA fees on generic drug applications, including a one-time fee on applications pending on October 1, 2012.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  116. Roll Call 294, H.R. 5651, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2012294

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 30, 2012 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Recorded vote of May 30, 2012 (387 to 5), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.

    official legislative record

    House Roll Call 294, May 30, 2012

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs; Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  117. Public Law 112-144, Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-112publ144

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jul 9, 2012 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Enacted text of S. 3187, signed July 9, 2012. Title III is the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012. The House passed this version by voice vote.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: Speeding up generic drugs

  118. ABDUL FOR U.S. SENATE, Pre-Primary 2026 (amended) (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal campaign committee only, covering July 1 to July 15, 2026. The original was received July 23, 2026 (file 2001725); this amendment, received August 11, 2026 (file 2005721), is the report OpenFEC marks most recent, and carries the same totals. Committee C00902668; Pre-Primary 2026 (amended); coverage 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-15; received 2026-08-11; file 2005721; image 202608119899481939.

    fec filing

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Money from corporations; Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Campaign finance

  119. Medical Debt Reliefhttps://www.waynecountymi.gov/Government/Departments/Health-Human-Veterans-Services/Access-to-Care/Medical-Debt-Relief

    Wayne County, Michigan · Reviewed Sep 24, 2026

    The county's own page for the program. It refused this desk's reader with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and again on 2026-09-24; the desk does not work around a refusal. An outside researcher read it and its results dashboard in a normal browser on 2026-09-23.

    official office record

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  120. Medical Debt Relief results dashboardhttps://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiZGUzYmIwZTQtZjRhMS00YjY2LWI5MGItZTA5MTE3MzhmZTM4IiwidCI6IjZlMWZjZmQ3LTI1YjQtNGNkMy1iODM2LWE4NjcxMWJkNmYzNCJ9

    Wayne County, Michigan · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The results dashboard linked from the county's program page. Read by an outside researcher in a normal browser on 2026-09-23; the figures are that researcher's transcription of the three total cards, not a saved copy of the page. No data-as-of date was shown.

    official office record

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  121. Fact check: Abdul El-Sayed overstates claim he erased $700M in medical debthttps://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-abdul-el-sayed-overstates-claim-he-erased-700m-in-medical-debt/

    Bridge Michigan · Published Jun 25, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Reporting published June 25, 2026. It states that the county says the program has paid off the equivalent of $57.4 million in medical debt for 83,291 residents more than two years in. Used only as a report of the county's figure, which the county's own page would confirm or correct.

    original reporting

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Medical debt erased in Wayne County

  122. WOOD TV8 debate, October 8: El-Sayed's openinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U&t=153s

    WOOD TV8 · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    2:33. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: His medical degree

  123. WOOD TV8 debate, October 8: El-Sayed on his medical degreehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U&t=388s

    WOOD TV8 · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    6:28. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's video; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: His medical degree

  124. Mailman's El-Sayed Takes Health Reins in Detroithttps://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/mailmans-el-sayed-takes-health-reins-detroit

    Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health · Published Sep 10, 2015 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Columbia's own announcement that Detroit had hired him. It says he holds a medical degree from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

    official office record

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: His medical degree

  125. WXYZ debate, October 21: Rogers on 9/11 responders' health carehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRVmIMy4Uo&t=1458s

    WXYZ-TV · Published Oct 21, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    24:18. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's live stream; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care

  126. House Report 111-560, Part 1: James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-111hrpt560/html/CRPT-111hrpt560-pt1.htm

    U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce (GovInfo) · Published Jul 22, 2010 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    The committee's report on H.R. 847. Its dissenting views, which Rogers signed, describe his $150 million amendment and its 19 to 30 defeat.

    official legislative record

    House Report 111-560, Part 1

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care; Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  127. House Roll Call 491 of 2010, H.R. 847 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 847. Rogers recorded Nay.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care

  128. House Roll Call 550 of 2010, H.R. 847 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Passage of H.R. 847. Rogers recorded No.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care

  129. House Roll Call 664 of 2010, H.R. 847 (document)

    Clerk of the U.S. House · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 847. Rogers recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care

  130. H.R. 847 (111th Congress)https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/847

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Sponsored by Carolyn Maloney; became Public Law 111-347.

    official legislative record

    For: Mike Rogers: $150 million for 9/11 responders' health care

  131. WXYZ debate, October 21: El-Sayed on testing school water for leadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRVmIMy4Uo&t=2558s

    WXYZ-TV · Published Oct 21, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    42:38. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's live stream; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Lead testing of Detroit school water in 2016

  132. Detroit wants all schools, early childhood centers to test water for leadhttps://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2016-04-06/detroit-wants-all-schools-early-childhood-centers-to-test-water-for-lead

    Michigan Public · Published Apr 6, 2016 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Reporting at the time. Used for the dates, his role as director, the plan to reach charters, day cares and Head Starts, and that the city could not compel schools to test.

    original reporting

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Lead testing of Detroit school water in 2016

  133. City says drinking water at all DPS schools now "lead-safe"https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2016-08-30/city-says-drinking-water-at-all-dps-schools-now-lead-safe

    Michigan Public · Published Aug 30, 2016 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    Reports the city's finding on all 94 district school buildings.

    original reporting

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Lead testing of Detroit school water in 2016

  134. Water Testing Results in Schools and Childcare Centershttps://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/water-testing-results-schools-and-childcare-centers

    City of Detroit Health Department · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    The city's results page. It gives no date; the 2016 timing comes from Michigan Public's reporting.

    official office record

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Lead testing of Detroit school water in 2016

  135. WXYZ debate, October 21: El-Sayed on money raisedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRVmIMy4Uo&t=3105s

    WXYZ-TV · Published Oct 21, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    51:45. Paraphrased from YouTube's captions of the station's live stream; no second transcript was found to confirm the exact words.

    candidate statement

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Money raised compared with Rogers

  136. ABDUL FOR U.S. SENATE, 2025-2026 financial summaryhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00902668/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    FEC's summary of the committee's filed reports, January 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.

    fec filing

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Money raised compared with Rogers

  137. ROGERS FOR SENATE, 2025-2026 financial summaryhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00849810/?cycle=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026

    FEC's summary of the committee's filed reports, January 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026. Principal campaign committee only.

    fec filing

    For: Abdul El-Sayed: Money raised compared with Rogers

  138. ROGERS FOR SENATE, Pre-Primary 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal campaign committee only, covering July 1 to July 15, 2026, received July 23, 2026 (file 2001576), the report OpenFEC marks most recent. Two other committees carry his name, both nominee funds designated as authorized, and are not in this snapshot. Committee C00849810; Pre-Primary 2026; coverage 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-15; received 2026-07-23; file 2001576; image 202607239894435071.

    fec filing

    For: Comparisons, reporting, support and chronology; Campaign finance

  139. Our claim page: Rogers on 9/11 responders' health carehttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/rogers-911-health-150-million

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  140. Our claim page: El-Sayed on lead testing in Detroit schoolshttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/elsayed-detroit-school-lead-testing

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  141. Our claim page: El-Sayed on money raisedhttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/elsayed-outraised-rogers

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  142. WXYZ Michigan Senate debatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRVmIMy4Uo

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  143. Our claim page: Rogers's Army and FBI servicehttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/rogers-army-fbi-service

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  144. Our claim page: Rogers on generic drugshttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/rogers-generic-drugs

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  145. Our claim page: El-Sayed's medical degreehttps://statedrecord.com/claims/michigan-us-senate-2026/elsayed-columbia-medical-degree

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked

  146. WOOD TV8 Michigan Senate debatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHvWDkko23U

    For: Three Michigan Senate debate claims checked