John Dingell: “Now, Mr. Chairman, you have an unholy mess on your hands, you and the Department of Energy, with regard to Yucca…”

The Fish and Wildlife Service is a public-friendly institution.

The Dingell-Johnson Act implemented a new 10 percent excise tax on fishing rods, reels, related components and fishing tackle.

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…