John Dingell: “Mr. Chairman, I thank you for your courtesy and I thank my colleague.”

I would suggest that the staff report should be reviewed with the utmost of care and deposited then very carefully in the nearest large wastebasket.

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…

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

John Dingell was the floor manager. He wrote the preface for this book.