And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.

Stabenow and Athans divorced on May 28 2010 approximately two years after Athans was detained in Troy Michigan as part of a prostitution sting. She challenged incumbent Republican U. The news came about after police investigations into an internet-based prostitution ring operating in the hotel questioned Athans.

She previously served as a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate. Stabenow currently serves as Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Deborah Ann "Debbie" Greer Stabenow (born April 29 1950) is the junior United States Senator from Michigan and a member of the Democratic Party.