Tom Barrett

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett conceded Michigan's 7th Congressional District to Representative-elect William Lawrence during an overnight phone call.

Democrat Will Lawrence defeated Republican Tom Barrett in Michigan's 7th Congressional District of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm election.

Control of Congress runs through mid-Michigan, where U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett and his Democratic challenger William Lawrence are locked in a tough battle for one of the closest U.S. House seats.

Leaders from the Police Officers Association of Michigan and the Fraternal Order of Police flanked Republican Congressman Tom Barrett, who took aim at old tweets by his Democratic opponent.

U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI 7) and Democratic nominee William Lawrence took aim at one another's records during the first debate in the close race for a critical U.S. House seat

Near the end of the event, two unidentified protesters began slamming plans to dramatically slash federal health care spending.

Many Michigan veterans live hours from their closest V.A. medical centers. Adding to that, the V.A. uses dozens of overlapping systems to schedule medical appointments.

“We have to make sure, obviously, that belligerent regimes like those in Iran that wish us harm don’t have the means to produce a nuclear weapon,” said Rep. Tom Barrett.

Today, Michelle Jokisch Polo takes us through the Laken Riley Act and it's impacts on immigrants without legal status.

After he's sworn in, Rep.-elect Tom Barrett of Michigan will work in the Capitol office his great-grandfather once used. Rep. Louis Rabaut died in 1961, two decades before Barrett was born.