Senator Carl Levin of Michigan

Comedian Jon Stewart once joked that Sen. Carl M. Levin looks like a "kindly old shoemaker." But don't be thrown off by his easy demeanor. Levin (Mich.), the top Senate Democrat on military policy in Afghanistan, is not too keen on the president's plan to send 30,000 additional combat troops to f...  

Michigan Sen. Carl Levin took to the airwaves on CBS' "Face the Nation" this morning to get a few things off his chest about the country's Middle East operations and what President Obama should do about increasing troops in Afghanistan.Talking...  

WKRG-TVSen. Levin Floor Statement on Health Care reformThe Michigan NewsCarl Levin, D-Mich., filed the following floor statement on the health care reform legislation under consideration by the Senate. ...Health care failuresChicago TribuneA tale of 2 insurance approachesCBC.caA comparison of House, Senate health care billsABC NewsPress of Atlantic City (blog)all 327 news articles »  

Why We Occupied Senator Levin’s Office Today, we occupied Senator Carl Levin’s office in Grand Rapids as a protest against the current administration’s decision to escalate the US war in Afghanistan. We do this not simply because we are against war, but because this decision by the Obama administration is unjust. The US is not in Afghanistan to bring Democracy – Since 1979, the US has supported anti-democratic forces such as the Mujahadeen...  

Washington -- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, and Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, are highly admired by their colleagues, according to a survey of House and Senate members released Friday by National Journal magazine.  

On C-SPAN’s Newsmakers, Senate Armed Services Cmte. Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) discussed Pres. Obama's approaching decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan, working with Afghanistan's re-elected President Karzai, and the shootings at Fort Hood.Length: 30 min.Published: Today at 12:45pm (ET)  

WASHINGTON - Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) voiced their concerns Sunday about the war in Afghanistan, its cost, and the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce on Tuesday. Sen. Levin, the leading Senate Democrat on military matters, said Sunday that President Obama's anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how those reinforcements will help increase...  

MARQUETTE - U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Southfield, urged a Senate subcommittee this week to take action on a bill he introduced in July seeking to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes ecosystem. A Levin news release said if the Asian carp, specifically bighead carp, spread into the Great Lakes, they stand to dramatically change the fisher.  

Not long ago, a mother from Fort Gratiot, near Port Huron, wrote to my office. Her son, she wrote, had opened a bank account and gotten a debit card to use for ATM withdrawals and day-to-day purchases — a cup of coffee, gas at the local filling station.  

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin (D-Mich.) insisted on Sunday that, had it not been for the Bush administration's failure to catch Osama bin Laden in 2001, there likely would be no debate about sending more troops to Afghanistan. Addressing a new Senate Foreign Relations Committee report claiming bin Laden was nearly captured by U.S. forces at Tora Bora, Levin argued that had the capture taken place, "there would be a good...  

WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and Michigan's Sen. Carl Levin says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.  

Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) quotes a Marine company commander during a Senate Armed Services committee hearing, saying, “our Achilles’ heel in Afghanistan, in the words of one Marine company commander, is not a shortage of troops- it’s a shortage of Afghan troops.” (0:26)  

Last week I related a fable about War, Taxes and the City State of Florence, the point of which is that when you start taxing the rich for the wars, the wars happen less often. Carl Levin gets behind the... Carl Levin - United States - Rush Limbaugh - Taxation - History  

Carl Levin, powerful Senate committee chair, calls Fort Hood shootings terrorismLos Angeles TimesCarl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee that will investigate the deadly Fort Hood shootings, calls them an ...PRESS STAKEOUT WITH SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN (ID-CT), SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEEFederal News Service (subscription)Tax the Rich to Pay For Troops?CBS NewsUpper-Bracket Tax May Be Needed...  

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, raised doubts this morning about President Barack Obama’s plans for a military surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, saying it will only “worsen” the imbalance between U.S. forces and Afghan troops fighting the Taliban. “I believe the principal mission of U.S. troop increases in Afghanistan should be to accelerate the transition to Afghan forces...