John Dingell: “It is alarming the drugs that have been around for so long would suddenly be the most difficult to keep hospitals…”

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…

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

The Dingell-Johnson Act implemented a new 10 percent excise tax on fishing rods, reels, related components and fishing tackle.

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