John Dingell: “You can't build more nuclear weapons and cut Medicaid and cut Pell Grants and cut Medicare at the same time.”

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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…