Honorable John Dingell
United States Representative, Michigan, Democrat
Representative Dingell, of the Fifteenth District of Michigan, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955. He served as a Wayne County (Michigan) Assistant Prosecuting Attorney from 1953 to 1955. He is Chairman Emeritus of the House Commerce Committee, a panel he chaired from 1981 to 1995 and from 2006 to 2008. The following is from the December 10, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 7321, the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act. We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. What is at stake today is nothing less than the…
