John Dingell: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

Only a piddling amount.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is a public-friendly institution.

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

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…