Ed Markey: “I thank the gentleman from Georgia for holding this Special Order. It is truly right and fitting that we honor this…”

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia for holding this Special Order. It is truly right and fitting that we honor this legislative giant, this man who represents everything that this institution is all about. I have served with Mr. Dingell for 37 years on the Energy and Commerce Committee. It has been an honor every day to serve with him. I want to tell you two stories about Mr. Dingell. A few years ago, the Energy and Commerce Committee was made a part of a conference committee that was going to create something called Farmer Mac, which was a new security that was going to be issued. Mr. Dingell and I were not happy that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had been exempted from the Securities and Exchange Commission jurisdiction. We were not happy. And so I arrived a little bit late to this conference, which was an Agriculture Committee conference with the Senate. I arrived and I sat next to Mr. Dingell. At the time, I was the chairman of the Securities Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Mr. Dingell had been doing all the negotiating. He turned to me about a half hour into the conference and just wrote out a note and passed it over to me. I read the note, and Mr. Dingell got up and left the room. So I continued to negotiate on behalf of Mr. Dingell and the Commerce Committee. At the end of the day, we won everything that we were looking for. Farmer Mac securities were going to be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.…”