ENERGY AND COMMERCE
John D. Dingell
Michigan
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Dingell, 80, has spent nearly 51 years in the House and was chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee for 14 years.
Dingell, known as a forceful and sometimes feared chairman, oversaw the breakup of AT&T and the sale of Conrail. He helped reach a compromise to produce the 1990 Clean Air Act. An ally of organized labor, he opposed NAFTA and other trade accords. He is a hunter and longtime advocate of gun rights. For decades, he has introduced the bill for national health insurance that his father, who preceded him in the seat, co-sponsored in 1943.
Dingell was the only Michigan Democrat to vote for the Persian Gulf War resolution in January 1991, but he voted against the Iraq war resolution in October 2002.
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