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Jul 29, 2021 · Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan Democrat who served 36 years in the Senate and scared the wits out of America’s biggest C.E.O.s by demanding explanations for shadowy schemes that hid billions in...
Jul 29, 2021 · CNN —. Carl Levin, a former US senator from Michigan who advanced Democratic priorities throughout his 36-year tenure in Congress, has died, the Levin Center at Wayne State University Law...
Jul 30, 2021 · The former taxi driver and auto-line worker, who for decades kept his faded 1953 union card in his wallet, died Thursday at 87. His family and the Levin Center at Wayne State University's law...
Aug 8, 2021 · Senator Carl Levin was Michigan’s longest serving senator from 1979 until his retirement from the Senate in 2015. In his 36-year Senate career, Levin earned respect from his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle for his integrity, resourcefulness and diligence, and ability to build consensus.
- 'It Was Never About Carl'
- Work Since Retirement
- Part of Political Dynasty
- Turning Arcane Issues Into Gains
- Early Life
- Political Career Launched
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who served with Levin on both the Armed Services and Investigations panels, said he stood out in the Senate because "it was never about Carl." "He never played to the cheap seats. ... He basically was respectful and always listened to what they had to say," McCaskill said. "He was never playing for ...
Since retiring, Levin had returned to Michigan and joined the firm of Honigman as senior counsel in 2015. Through the Levin Center at Wayne State, Levin worked in recent years to promote fact-based, bipartisan oversight by Congress through training workshops for hundreds of Capitol Hill staffers, said Bean, director of the center's Washington offic...
Carl Levin was part of political dynasty that included a tight kinship with his older brother by two and a half years, Sander Levin of Royal Oak, who served in the U.S. House for 36 years. The brothers were the longest-serving siblings in the history of Congress, always sitting together for the annual State of the Union address and regularly sparri...
Much of Levin's legacy involved working on often arcane issues — sometimes for many years — to notch legislative gains. He once gave the example of allowing property owners along a Michigan wilderness trail to donate land to the federal government without specific approval from Congress. "I'm proud of being willing to get into technical issues," Le...
Carl Levin was born in 1934 in Detroit, the youngest of three siblings. His father, Saul, an attorney, served on the Michigan Corrections Commission and represented migrant farmworkers. An uncle, Theodore Levin, and cousin Avern Cohn served as federal judges. His parents stressed the importance of family and community to Carl, Sander and sister Han...
He ran for the Detroit City Council, serving for eight years from 1969-77 — the last four as council president, with the aim of improving the city in the aftermath of the 1967 uprising. With the support of Mayor Coleman Young, Levin and the council took on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which owned thousands of abandoned, dil...
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Dec 27, 2021 · Levin, a Democrat who died this year at 87, was from one of metro Detroit’s big political families; the federal courthouse downtown is named after his uncle, his cousin was on the state Supreme...
Jul 30, 2021 · Detroit Today. July 30, 2021. Rep. Debbie Dingell and Levin Center Director Jim Townsend celebrate the life and legacy of Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator. On Thursday, former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin died at age 87. To honor his life and legacy, Stephen Henderson revisits a conversation with Levin from March of this year.
