Honorable John D. Dingell
United States Representative, Michigan, Democrat
Representative Dingle, of the Sixteenth District of Michigan, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955. He served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County (Michigan) from 1953 to 1955. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which he chaired from 1981 to 1995. The following is from the July 24, 2003, House floor debate on H.R. 2427, the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act. This is a bad bill. On its face it would appear to be a good bill. It is not. It will allow this country to be flooded with unsafe,…