John Dingell

I hope to learn about the deal's potential effects on the automobile industry, which, as my colleagues and those assembled here today know, is of great importance to my home state of Michigan.

I want to tell you, I am a particular admirer of your department, particularly your Foreign Commercial Services Agency.

Mr. Chairman, I am sure you are making a careful review of the events that are going forward in Japan with regard to the nuclear facility over there and the attendant circumstances.

I commend you for exercising our Committee's often overlooked jurisdiction over trade-related matters.

When I came to Congress some years ago, the United States exported more merchandise than it imported.

I wholeheartedly agree with calls to increase U.S. exports in order to put people back to work and restore our country's reputation as a place that makes things.

I'm interested in learning more about how you plan to have these loans closed.

I have seen on a number of occasions... he was coming up to announce cuts in this particular program.

I am very much concerned about the President's budget request.

What will be the practical impact of these cuts on the Great Lakes?

I think, in summary, you can tell us though that these cuts are going to be extremely destructive to the well-being of the Great Lakes and to the protection of that absolutely wondrous treasure.

Muslim Americans are honorable citizens, loyal Americans, and they are as much distressed as we are about what it is we see going on.

I would beg you, Mr. Chairman and the Members of the committee, to do what I know you are fully intent upon doing, and that is to see to it that as we go into these matters, we do not blot the good name or the loyalty or raise questions…

Oh, yes, quite, because I helped write that law.

I would suggest strongly you go back and take a look at it because that is the way we wrote it.

We have now created more private-sector jobs in 2 years of Obama than 8 years of President Bush.

We are learning a little bit about this Congress, which is that we have lurched so quickly into a very successful campaign by my Republican friends that all of the slogans are just being transplanted.

Do you believe that the agencies have the personnel resources necessary to complete the look-back and do the other things that they must do? Yes or no.

Do you anticipate that the regulatory reviews, for example, by the Department of Health and Human Services will prevent the agency from completing the rulemakings required in and hinder the general implementation of the Affordable Care…

The record is that the Dow Jones has had a better year than they have had any time in the last 12 years.

Similarly, will regulatory reviews prevent the Food and Drug Administration from completing the rulemakings required in and hinder general implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act passed by the Congress in the last session? Yes…

I have introduced a resolution today declaring that Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game and urging the MLB to overturn a mistaken safe call.

NEPA covers every situation that we confront.

cap-and-trade is 'a tax, and a great big one.'

Cap-and-trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.