John Dingell actually said...

"This committee, and the Republican-controlled House, has become one of the last remaining refuges of the flat-Earth society."

"I have the impression that our system is broken because we are paying for work done and not for accomplishments"

"I happen to think, and will you confirm or deny this, that that is the direction we are going to have to go because one of the things about our system is it is broken because we are paying for work do..."

"To fail to do this is probably going to project the committee into one of the doggonest donnybrooks in recent history."