John Dingell: “It is very clear to anyone who looks at it that we can no longer kick the can down the road.”

I find it deplorable, disturbing, and downright devastating--to you, to GM, to folks in Michigan who live and breathe pride in our auto industry, but most of all, to the families of the victims.

I hope that Chairman Wheeler will honor that understanding.

I want to quote Admiral Rickover, who once observed, 'The devil is in the details but so is salvation.'

I would like to begin with a parochial matter.