John Dingell: “Compromise is an honorable activity and it is something which will make this institution work.”

The urgency for pipeline safety is greater than ever.

Only a piddling amount.

This committee takes pipeline safety very seriously.

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…