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DITCH DINGELL!!! The video took place last year during the Town Hall discussions on Health Care. Dingell tried to conduct a secret session but fed up constituents packed the hall (and outside). Dingell later went on to say that the angry protestors were being paid for by the insurance Companies. LOL. I'm still waiting for the check! This was held at the very start of the Tea Party Movement. From Supporter Matt P. DEMS SLING MUD!! The Dems have nothing positive to say, so they sling mud and hope it sticks. The ignorant might buy this, but we Michigan residents have learned too much the hard way about the cost of poor leadership. Time to retire the old guard like Dingell, who have done nothing for Michigan in the past decade. From Supporter Roger T.
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...companies, driving the economies in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio into total ruin. John Dingell has served too long in DC. He needs to go. He reminds me of a doddering old Sen. Howell Heflin during the Clarence Thomas confirmation...
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California Conservative
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http://www.californiaconservative.org/liberals/bulletin-to-dingell-we-know-who-were-upset-with/
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Dingell's quest for universal health care began in 1932, when his father, John Dingell Sr., was first elected to the House from Michigan. The elder Dingell quickly became one of the architects of the New Deal.
"If you look at the the picture of
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Southern California Public Radio
http://feeds.scpr.org/~r/893KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews/~3/jEqf8Syv-9w/
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We were asked to comment and, of course, I had nothing to say. But some of my people did and one of the things they said was you are the company you keep. And, so, Tim Walberg has Joe Wilson and I have John Dingell and John Lewis.
Lewis was
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Pam's House Blend
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PamsHouseBlend/~3/d0FP-NJ19_c/3-us-congressmen-1-voice-health-care-is-a-civil-right
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Washington -- A crowd formed around Rep. John Dingell on the floor of the House in June after controversial climate change legislation passed by a slim margin.
Lawmakers were congratulating the Dearborn Democrat on the role he played in moderating and
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Detroit News Online
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http://www.detnews.com/article/20090911/POLITICS02/909110388/-1/rss
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By Jane Zhang The sweeping food-safety bill that passed the House this summer was a victory for Michigan Democrat John Dingell, a longtime critic of the Food and Drug Administration who has pushed versions of the legislation for more than 20 years.Many
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125191074342380151.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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...August 6th, Michigan resident Mike Sola confronted Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) at a health care townhall about H.R. 3200’s effect on his son Scott. It is unclear from the exchange if Scott, who is confined to a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy, is enrolled in...
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The Heritage Foundation
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/31/dingell-defense-deficient/
August 6th, 2009
August 6th, 2009
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WASHINGTON - Congress' longest-serving member and a fierce health care advocate vowed Friday to push ahead with Democratic-led efforts to extend coverage to all, saying he won't be intimidated by protesters who disrupted his town-hall meetings.
"I am
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MSNBC
http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com/click.phdo?i=430579489528c3dfefab3be1c7533c42
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...palsy, would not be covered under health insurance reform legislation. They were later escorted out by police. U.S. Rep. John Dingell has responded in a letter to the Washtenaw County man who got in the congressmans face last week at the raucous health care...
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20090812/NEWS15/90812053/-1/rss07
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...of the potent House Energy and Commerce Committee late last year in a squeeze play by California Rep. Henry Waxman. There, John Dingell had long fought lower emissions standards and other Big Three causes, but Salon reported last December that he also had...
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Muckety.com
http://news.muckety.com/2009/08/12/debbie-dingell-leaving-gm/19021
August 6th, 2009 Pre-event footage
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress' longest-serving member and a fierce health care advocate vowed Friday to push ahead with Democratic-led efforts to extend coverage to all, saying he won't be intimidated by protesters who disrupted his town-hall meetings.
"I
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WBAY-TV
http://www.wbay.com/global/story.asp?s=10869532
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www.freep.com — U.S. Rep. John Dingell was greeted with jeers and cheers Thursday as he tried to explain why changing the nation's health care system as he has advocated for more than a half century in Congress makes sense. Despite what some
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/tempers_flare_over_health_care_plan_freep_com_detroit/
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With House leaders introducing their version of a sweeping health care reform bill this afternoon, we got a bit of a preview on today’s “Top Line” on ABCNews.com from Rep. John Dingell -- one of the bill’s architects, and a voice on behalf of universal
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ABC News
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_TopStories/~3/kwTfrsKA9xc/rep-john-dingell-health-care-bill-will-impose-new-tax-on-wealthy-dems-cant-afford-judgmental-errors.html
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Congressman John Dingell of Michigan has been recognized by the North American Waterfowl Management Plan Commission for his decades of contributions to waterfowl conservation.
Dingell received the International Canvasback Award on June 10 during a
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Blogger News
http://www.bloggernews.net/121201
www.AmericanSolutions.com Congressman John Dingell, a key Democrat, says that "nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and its a great big one."
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...Congressman John D. Dingell, the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said that the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as harmful pollutants Thursday would help push Congress to pass a meaningful...
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21657.html
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WASHINGTON A $410 billion bill that would keep the government running through September includes tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in local projects requested by Michigan lawmakers.
• $30 million for dredging in St. Marys River, requested by Sen.
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20090310/NEWS15/90310083/-1/rss07
Congressman Mark Schauer pays tribute to Chairman John Dingell on the day he became the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives.
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Today is a really big day. It's Dingell Day.
John Dingell sets an all-time all-American new record for sitting in the House of Representatives.
The 82-year-old Michigan Democrat has been sitting in the same place now for 19,421 days.
Dingell's
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Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/john-dingell.html
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) speaks on the Floor of the US House of Representatives in favor of a Congressional Resolution honoring Congressman John Dingell (MI-15) for his more than 50 years of service in the Congress.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted a reception today in Statuary Hall in the Capitol to celebrate Congressman John Dingell as the longest-serving Member of the House of Representatives. Below are the Speaker's
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Street Insider
http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Pelosi%3A+%26apos%3BFor+19%2C420+Days%2C+We+Have+Had+the+Best+--+With+John+Dingell%26apos%3B/4382051.html
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...has served with 11 presidents, so that one-quarter of all the nation’s presidents have “had the experience of working with John Dingell.” Clinton, who sparred with Dingell on gun control, recalled that working with his fellow Democrat usually went well. “When...
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79641&Itemid=70
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...Dingell becomes the longest-serving House member in history on Wednesday, and to honor the Democrat from Detroit Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hosting a reception at the Capitol today. Bill Clinton and Carl Levin are scheduled to speak. During his 55-year run in...
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Mother Jones
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Motherjones/mojoblog/~3/536647553/12193_honoring_john_d.html
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...WASHINGTON -- John Dingell first entered the House chamber as a 6-year-old, the son of a Michigan congressman who was elected at the dawn of the New Deal era. Now 82, Dingell will walk into the Capitol on Wednesday as the House's longest-serving member, entering...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/896410.html
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John Dingell becomes the longest-serving member in U.S. House history at a bittersweet moment: For the first time since 1981, he's not chairman or ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
That's no small setback for Dingell or for
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090210/POLITICS/902100327/1022/rss10
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Rep. John Dingell's spirited defense of the auto industry, stretching over a half-century, has seen many rough patches -- but none more difficult than the past two years.
"I've got 800,000 people who live or die depending on how the auto industry is
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090210/POLITICS/902100328/1022/rss10
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Returning to Washington from an Eastern Shore duck hunting trip with John Dingell, our car rounded a curve when suddenly the bright, white dome of the Capitol came into view.
"It still thrills me whenever I see that," Dingell said softly.
I've often
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090210/OPINION03/902100340/1022/rss10
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WASHINGTON - John Dingell first entered the House chamber as a 6-year-old, the son of a Michigan congressman who was elected at the dawn of the New Deal era.
Now 82, Dingell will walk into the Capitol on Wednesday as the House's longest-serving member,
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104430/
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WASHINGTON -- Cal Ripken hadn't been born yet, the Berlin Wall hadn't been built and Japanese cars weren't on U.S. roads when John Dingell began his congressional career.
In 1955, Detroit's population had just peaked at 2 million.
And a lanky, 6-foot-4
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Detroit Free Press
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http://www.freep.com/article/20090208/NEWS15/902080403/1118/RSS
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In addition, Dingell will retain a sizable staff, remain an ex officio member of each of the panel’s subcommittees and become “chairman emeritus” of the full committee.
Incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78384&Itemid=70
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Most of the coverage of the departure of Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) from the powerful chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has focused on his anti-environmentalism and his staunch defense of the interests of dysfunctional Detroit
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TCS Daily
http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=f4f9a91c8dea0f16a1b15b379954f6b5
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As long as I can remember Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., was one of the toughest committee chairmen in the Congress. His father preceded him in U.S. Congress during the Great Depression. I had the pleasure of visiting with him one day while Republicans
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CNSNews.com
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/checker.aspx?rsrcID=39950
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Waxman is no spring chicken himself. Representing Hollywood and Beverly Hills, he came to Congress with the Watergate class of 1974. The excesses of that ultra-liberal class were long held in check by the old bulls of the House, and Dingell is
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National Review Online
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWZlMzA2YmM4NGZhZjNmZDdlMDE5NDNhZjZlY2Q4NDY=
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The NY Times has the background story on just how Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) beat John Dingell (D-MI) for chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. The turning point was Dingell’s rejection of a truce that Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the
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Climate Progress
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/462936122/
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Henry Waxman’s bid to oust John Dingell from his perch atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee succeeded on Thursday, with the chamber’s Democratic caucus voting 137-122 to hand him the gavel.
The verdict will have an immediate and significant
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/waxman-coup-shift-not-revolution
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Nowhere but on Capitol Hill could a 69-year-old politician serving his 17th term be considered a young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "The Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power...
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Time Magazine
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/topstories/~3/459998070/0,8599,1860948,00.html
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WASHINGTON -- Ending a dramatic intra-party clash, House Democrats voted Thursday to oust U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a longtime ally of the Big Three domestic automakers, as chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.
The Michigan lawmaker
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081120/METRO/811200435/1020/rss09
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“The prevailing view in the caucus and the argument we
made was that we needed a change for the committee to have the leadership that
will work with this administration and members in both the House and the Senate
in order to get important issues
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77851&Itemid=70
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. John Dingell of Michigan suffered a setback on Wednesday when a House Democratic leadership committee nominated his rival, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, as the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081120/POLITICS/811200393/1022/rss10
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I hope this isn't too inside baseball for everybody. If it is, just skip down to the nice song at the bottom. It's been somewhat drowned out by the intensity of the battle over Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee chair, but there has been
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Down With Tyranny!
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/11/heavenly-day-waxman-defeats-dingell-so.html
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WASHINGTON -- In a stunning setback for Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee voted Wednesday for his rival to be the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Dingell got 22 votes while rival
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081119/METRO/811190441/1022/rss10
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Officially, Nancy Pelosi isn’t taking sides in the heated fight between John Dingell and Henry Waxman for the chairmanship of the mighty House Energy and Commerce Committee -- a panel that will play a pivotal role in shaping energy, climate change, and
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/watch-what-pelosi-does-now
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WASHINGTON -- A high-stakes battle gets under way today over whether Rep. John Dingell, a longtime ally of the Big Three domestic automakers, stays on as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Dingell headed into what many observers
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Detroit News Online
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081119/POLITICS/811190385/-1/rss
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Dingell, the longest-serving Democrat in the House, is two years into a six-year limited term as chairman. Waxman (D-Calif.), with 20 years’ less seniority but a closer friendship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), is bidding to oust him.
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The Hill
http://thehill.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77788&Itemid=70
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WASHINGTON A fight brewing among congressional Democrats could shape the course of President-elect Barack Obama's plans for energy policy, climate change and health care reform.
Barring a last-minute deal, House Democrats will decide this week,
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EcoEarth News
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-11-17-congress_N.htm
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While John Dingell’s campaign to keep the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee has kicked into high gear, his challenger, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), has operated largely out of the public eye.
Dingell has 50 years in the House and
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15638.html
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