John Dingell: “The failure of the majority to govern, to keep this government open and to make sure it works for the people.”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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

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…