John Dingell: “I don't care whether it is completed. Submit the darn thing to the committee and we will tell you what we think of it.”

The urgency for pipeline safety is greater than ever.

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…

Only a piddling amount.

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