Congressman Dingell provides commentary and perspective on issues facing his constituents in Michigan's 15th Congressional District.

June 10, 2010 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 22: Food Safety
Congressman Dingell points to the tragic cases of food contamination in recent years to highlight the pressing need for new food safety legislation. He calls on the Senate to pass his food safety bill, H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, to help protect Americans from tainted food. H.R. 2749 enjoys bipartisan support and overwhelmingly passed the House last year.

May 25, 2010 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 21: Jobs and Economic Recovery
Congressman Dingell discusses action taken in Congress to address Southeast Michigan’s economic challenges and help the region’s working families. He looks at the passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, which has helped fund more than 600 projects in Michigan's 15th Congressional District, totaling more than $500 million in grants. In addition, he points to Chrysler's return to profitability and General Motors' repayment of its government loans as reasons to be bullish on Michigan’s future.

April 7, 2010 | Michigan's 15th Congressional District
Tele-Town Hall 5
On April 7, 2010, Congressman Dingell discussed the recently passed health insurance reform law and improvements to Medicare in a Tele-Town Hall Meeting with constituents in the 15th District. More than 3,100 people participated in a portion of the town hall.

May 28, 2009 | Michigan's 15th Congressional District
Tele-Town Hall 4
On May 28, 2009, Congressman Dingell discussed health care, climate change and the future of the auto industry in a Tele-Town Hall Meeting with constituents in the 15th District. More than 2,800 people participated in a portion of the town hall.

May 5, 2008 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 20: Tobacco
On April 2, 2008, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which Congressman Dingell chairs, passed H.R. 1108, the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.” This important legislation addresses our longstanding concern with tobacco use, especially by our Nation’s youth.

May 5, 2008 | Michigan's 15th Congressional District
Tele-Town Hall 2
On May 5, 2008, Congressman Dingell led a Tele-Town Hall Meeting with constituents in the 15th District. He discussed his work on issues including energy security and global warming, universal health care, foreclosures and the war in Iraq. More than 3,900 people participated in a portion of the town hall.

May 5, 2008 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 19: Medicaid Regulations
Congressman Dingell: "I want to commend my House colleagues on passing H.R. 5613, the 'Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act,' which I authored with Representative Tim Murphy. This bill will place a temporary, one-year moratorium on seven Bush Administration-imposed Medicaid regulations would make significant cuts to the Medicaid program."

April 4, 2008 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 18: Concern About Housing
It’s no secret that homeowners across America are facing dangerous times. Our economy is hurting, particularly the financial sector. We have a bona fide credit crisis and it is devastating our homeowners and our housing market.

January 9, 2008 | Michigan's 15th Congressional District
Tele-Town Hall 1
On January 9, 2008, Congressman Dingell led a Tele-Town Hall Meeting with constituents in the 15th District. He discussed his work on issues including energy security and global warming, universal health care, toy safety and the war in Iraq. More than 2,800 people participated in a portion of the town hall.

December 21, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 16: Toy Safety
Congressman Dingell: "I have said on multiple occasions that a country’s highest responsibility is to protect its children. I am pained to say that it appears that in this duty, the United States government has been derelict, allowing dangerous toys – some containing lead paint or even worse – to slip past our borders."

October 26, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 15: Carbon Fee
Congressman Dingell invites listeners to review a proposal and share their thoughts on a potentially important component in the greater effort to address global warming - a carbon fee, which will ultimately reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

June 27, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 14: Climate Change
The following podcast is the statement Congressman Dingell delivered to the Committee on Energy and Commerce on June 27, 2007: Today we will consider a series of energy bills that will accomplish much good. The efficiency provisions alone will remove more than 8.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, an amount equal to the annual emissions of all of the cars on the road in America today.

May 10, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 12: Global Warming
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is now considering the scientific question of whether greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are contributing, and will continue to contribute, to a warming of the planet. While many of us have had significant doubts on this question in the past, it seems to me that the science on this question has been settled.

May 4, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 13: Digital TV
The digital television transition is a matter that, despite what some of you may tell you, is not yet resolved. Congress must do all within its power to ensure that television sets do not go black when the signal is switched. The Committee on Energy and Commerce last month held the first oversight hearing on the digital television transition since the law that set a hard date to turn off analog television was enacted more than a year ago.

March 7, 2007 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 11: CAFE Standards
The Corporate Average Fuel Economy has had some successes, and some shortcomings. Fuel economy today is double that of thirty years ago, in part -- but only in part -- because of CAFE. The program’s flaw is that it regulates what automakers are able to sell, not what they are technologically capable of producing. The consumer ultimately determines the average fuel economy of an automaker’s fleet with what he or she actually buys.

October 27, 2006 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 8: The Medicare Donut Hole

June 15, 2006 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 5: Iraq - From the House Floor
On June 15th, Congressman Dingell spoke out on the Iraq War as the House debated a resolution supporting the President's management of the conflict. Dingell voted against the war in 2003.

June 14, 2006 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 3: Darfur
One of this world's on-going tragedies is the horrific genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Over the past three years, more than 400,000 Sudanese have been murdered and 2.5 million - almost the size of the population of Chicago - are homeless due to the conflict and genocide. Congressman Dingell says America, as the world's only superpower, has a special responsibility to end this conflict and bring about peace.

May 25, 2006 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 2: Health Care for all Americans
Currently, 45.8 million Americans have no health insurance, including more than 8 million children. We must do all we can either incrementally or systematically to bring our fellow Americans in from the cold and provide them the health security every American deserves.

May 1, 2006 | Congressman John D. Dingell
Episode 1: Immigration
New legal immigrants deserve a path to citizenship and the benefits that come with it, while lawbreakers should be punished and denied the privileges awarded to those who go down the proper path.