Former Michigan Sen. Carl Levin dies at 87

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published 30 July 2021

Carl Levin, Michigan's longest-serving senator, died on Thursday. He was 87.

In a statement, Levin's family said that "whether he was chairing a hearing on critical national security issues or working on behalf of his home state, he believed that collaboration and compromise served our common purpose better than partisanship and political brinkmanship."

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During his time in the Senate, Levin pushed for tax reform and the creation of more manufacturing jobs in the United States, raised pay for military members, and voted against the Iraq War. Levin's memoir, Getting to the Heart of the Matter, was released earlier this year, and in the book he shared that because he was once a local official, "I understand the importance of responding to people in need, listening to even the smallest voice, and working hard on behalf of the people with honesty, integrity, and civility."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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