John Dingell: “Cap-and-trade is 'a tax, and a great big one.'”

It is a very happy system. It works well. And it has had no controversy that I can recall except one instance.

Establishment of a refuge does not instantly make the Federal Government a steward of an area of land.

Only a piddling amount.

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…