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John Dingell

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John David Dingell Jr. was a prominent American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 15th congressional district from 1955 until his retirement in 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Dingell was known for his long tenure in Congress, making him the longest-serving member at the time of his retirement. Throughout his career, he played a significant role in shaping key legislation, including the Affordable Care Act and civil rights laws.

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Oct 26, 2009

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

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Aug 5, 2009

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

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Jun 10, 2009

It is a slow drip-by-drip torture that we would undergo as a nation.

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Jun 10, 2009

glorious mess,'' to quote the Dean of the House of Representatives, Rep. John Dingell.

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Jun 10, 2009

if we try to regulate carbon under the Clean Air Act, we are going to have a glorious mess.

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Jun 10, 2009

we need to fix that problem. But we need to fix the problem and only that problem.

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May 18, 2009

Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller, for allowing me the courtesy of submitting a statement in support of the nomination of my good friend, Dr. Rebecca Blank, to the position of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of…

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Mar 18, 2009

Even without Russia's incursion into Georgia, Russian support for Iranian nuclear and missile programs alone is enough to call into question the wisdom of committing to a 30-year agreement to transfer sensitive nuclear technologies and…

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Jul 29, 2008

This legislation's on the floor because people are killing themselves smoking these evil cigarettes. And the distinguished gentleman, the majority -- the minority leader, is going to be amongst the next to die.

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Jul 29, 2008

This legislation's on the floor, because people are killing themselves smoking these evil cigarettes. And the distinguished gentleman, the majority -- the Minority Leader is going to be amongst the next to die. I have been trying to save…

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Jun 25, 2007

Mr. Dingell is working to help the environment and MoveOn has simply got its facts wrong.

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Jun 25, 2007

MoveOn has a new radio spot that says Michigan congressman John Dingell, the head of the energy committee, is a dinosaur, Dingellsaurus, for blocking efforts to combat global warming.

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Jun 11, 2007

I feel a little bit like this is the movie 'Groundhog Day.' For some reason or another, DOE has proven itself incapable of managing this critical security and preventing recurring problems.

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Jan 10, 2007

Embryonic stem-cell research holds the potential for developing treatments for many dreaded diseases.

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Sep 8, 2005

Mr. Brown was regrettably an administrator or officer the head of an Arabian horse association. Hardly qualifying him to address the kind of problems he's looking at now.

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Dec 11, 2003

they, not Pentagon auditors, were the first to blow the whistle on the high price the U.S. was paying for Kuwaiti gas.

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Feb 29, 2000

great need to address and to reform the way the FCC handles its merger reviews. These are a remarkable exercise in arrogance, and the behavior of the Commission, oft-times by reason of delay and other matters, approaches what might well be…

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Jun 10, 1994

I was one of those American veterans and Members of this body who joined hundreds of thousands of others, Americans, Britons, French, Belgians, Poles, Czechs, and others in assembling on the beaches of Normandy to celebrate an event of…

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May 5, 1994

I rise in opposition to H.R. 4296. This bill bans a class of commonly owned firearms based on technology that has been in use for more than a century. We know about the 19 weapons banned by the bill. We also know about the 670 hunting and…

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Apr 19, 1994

I rise today to join with my colleagues in commemorating the 79th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. This horrible event marked a period in which the Turkish Ottoman Empire conducted a deliberate campaign to systematically eliminate a…

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Mar 23, 1994

H.R. 4092, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, contains an important proposal that I, along with my colleague, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, introduced last year. This bill, H.R. 665, is now title IV of…

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Mar 22, 1994

I rise in strong support of H.R. 369, the committee funding resolution for 1994. I want to thank and commend the chairman of the Subcommittee on Accounts, Mr. Frost, and all the members of the subcommittee and the full House Administration…

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Feb 2, 1994

I yield to no man in my criticism of EPA. I have investigated and shown some extraordinary evidence of incompetence, of inability to manage contracts, of inability to handle the business of the agency, of loss of control of the agency to…

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Sep 17, 1973

allowing the import of trophies from healthy wildlife populations is as it should be.

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