Below are just a few of the stories from newspapers and websites on Congressman Dingell. They were selected for this section because the reporters captured his positions on the issues of particular interest to him.

September 22, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal | Mike Ramsey
Rep. Dingell Disputes China's Electric-Car Policy
U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.) on Wednesday sent a letter to China's ambassador to the U.S. urging the Chinese government to reconsider an effort to force auto makers to hand over proprietary electric vehicle technology as a condition to participate in the market.

March 25, 2010 | The Washington Post | David S. Broder
John Dingell's health-care moment
No one waited longer for the passage of health-care reform than John Dingell, so it was only right that no one smiled more broadly than the 83-year-old congressman while seated at the president's side for the bill-signing ceremony in the White House's East Room.

March 23, 2010 | Newsweek | Howard Finemann
John Dingell's Journey
If Obama is the Moses of the new health-care law, Dingell is the Aaron—except that, unlike Aaron, he's happily alive to reach the (incremental) promised land. "There is a certain satisfaction," said Dingell as he kept an eye on the TV.

March 23, 2010 | Detroit Free Press | Todd Spangler
Health reform a long time coming for Dingell
John Dingell's got some celebrating to do. Dingell, the 83-year-old dean of the U.S. House and the chamber's longest-serving member, has fought for sweeping health care reform since joining Congress in 1955, inheriting the mantle from his dad, who sat in the seat before him.

March 21, 2010 | The New Republic | Jonathan Cohn
Taking Care of Family Business
Health care reform is the family business for Dingell. During the 1940s, his father, John Dingell Sr., co-sponsored the first serious proposal for universal health care.

February 18, 2010 | The Associated Press | Kevin Maurer
Fed Probe Urged on Cancer Chemical in Marine Water
"I want to know whether there are still toxic chemicals contaminating the water at Camp Lejeune. If there are, what is the Navy's plan for dealing with them?" Dingell said.

February 17, 2010 | The Eastern Echo | Joseph Yelick
Dingell tells jobs forum doing 'basics' is a key to being hired
Congressman John Dingell suggested students work on the basics, during a panel of human resource directors from major companies presenting a seminar Monday at the Student Center about getting hired.

February 16, 2010 | AnnArbor.com | Nathan Bomey
10 ways to crack Michigan's 'hidden job market'
For the 600,000 Michigan workers seeking employment, finding a job can seem like panning for gold.

November 6, 2009 | NPR | Julie Rovner
Rep. Dingell: The House’s Link To Health-Care History
When people think of health care and Congress, often the first name that springs to mind is the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. While Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) may not be as well known, his legacy on health care is even richer than Kennedy's.

October 23, 2009 | Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler
Dean Of House To Nervous Dems: If We Fail On Health Care, We Lose
In a tense, closed door caucus meeting this morning, during which House Democrats were made to go on the record on the question of whether they'd vote for a health care bill with a robust public option, some of the caucus' most nervous members got a bit of perspective from its longest serving members.

June 30, 2009 | Politico | Andie Coller
Forget tweets: Letters still deliver
As head of the oversight and investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (he was also the full committee’s chairman at the time), he launched countless inquiries, which were abetted by thousands of what came to be known as “Dingellgrams” — letters containing detailed demands for information and accountability from various agencies under the committee’s purview.

June 30, 2009 | The Washington Times | Jennifer Haberkorn
Dingell, in father's steps, backs health care to end
Over the past 27 sessions of Congress, there has been a Dingell universal health care bill pending, a proposal first introduced in the middle of World War II.

June 26, 2009 | Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler
Dingell Meets With Blue Dogs To Build Support For Health Reform
The House of Representatives will soon begin the mark up process on its so-called tricommittee health care proposal, and in these early stages, discussions are under way between the bill's advocates and its potential opponents to help build support for it. One of the key legislators in this process is Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) who has considerable clout with moderates in his party.

June 10, 2009 | Politico | Patrick O'Connor and Chris Frates
Dems double down on health care
Dingell has offered a universal health care bill every year since he came to Congress in 1955. Toward the end of Tuesday’s caucus meeting, he rose on his crutches and told the audience that this measure has the promise of becoming a legacy like Social Security — a program his father helped create in the 1930s.

June 10, 2009 | The New York Times | Robert Pear
Democrats Nearing Consensus on Health Plan
A broad consensus on the contours of legislation to remake the nation’s health care system appeared to be developing among Democratic leaders on Tuesday as three House committee chairmen outlined a bill generally similar to one being written in the Senate.

April 18, 2009 | Monroe Evening News | Charles Slat
Clearly marking every earmark
Amid the billions being spent in Washington, several million in federal money is being earmarked for the Monroe area.

February 11, 2009 | Time | Randy James
John Dingell: America's Longest- Serving Representative
In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat, Rock Around the Clock hit the top of the music charts, and John Dingell was elected to Congress.

February 11, 2009 | Roll Call | Steven T. Dennis
Rep. Dingell Makes History
After 53 years in the House, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) will stand alone today as the longest-serving Representative in history. Dingell will break the late Rep. Jamie Whitten’s (D-Miss.) record and surpass the other 10,000 or so legislators who have served in the House since 1789.

February 11, 2009 | NPR | Ken Rudin
John Dingell: Longest Serving House Member In History
John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat first elected in a 1955 special election, todaybecomes the longest-serving member in the 220-year history of the House ofRepresentatives. After 19,420 days, Dingell breaks the record

February 11, 2009 | Roll Call | Special Report
Roll Call Special on Dingell's Record

• Timeline: Major Events in Dingell's Tenure
• 'We Got Along' - Big John Dingell Remembers
• Norman Ornstein on Dingell
• Photos

February 10, 2009 | ABC News | Rick Klein
Dingell Becomes Longest-Serving House Member
"Same as any other day -- I'm going to work in the same office, I'm going to go to the [House] floor, do the same things in committee, and do the same things in terms of work," Dingell told ABCNews.com in an interview. "It's a great job. I love it, and I'm grateful every day to the good Lord for giving me another day."

February 10, 2009 | The Detroit News | Special Report
Crusader: Rep. Dingell to become America's longest-serving congressman
On Feb. 11, 2009, Michigan's John Dingell begins his 19,420th day on the job, becoming the longest serving member -- ever -- of the U.S. House of Representatives. The 82-year-old Dearborn Democrat has amassed a remarkable list of legislative accomplishments, especially concerning health care and protecting the environment.

February 9, 2009 | The New York Times | John Harwood
Serving Since 1955, a House Institution
Mr. Dingell applauds President Obama’s drive to expand health care coverage, a cause that he and his congressman father before him have championed since Franklin D. Roosevelt occupied the Oval Office.

February 8, 2009 | Detroit Free Press | Todd Spangler
Dingell to set record for time in the House
Fifty-four years later, Dingell, at 82, is still at it, new hip, new knee, bad back and all -- and on Wednesday he will have been at it longer than anyone in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives: 19,420 days. ¶ Put another way: Ripken, baseball's record-setting Iron Man with 2,632 straight games, has nothing on John David Dingell Jr.

February 3, 2009 | Congress Daily | Richard E. Cohen
Record Looming, Dingell Looks To Refocus As A Member, Particularly On Health Care
As Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., looks back on his record-breaking career, he lists the late Rep. Sam Rayburn, D-Texas, as the first and the best of the nine House speakers under whom he has served.

December 19, 2008 | Detroit Free Press | Todd Spangler
Dingell questions 'irresponsible' wage cuts
One big auto supporter in the nation’s capital – Rep. John Dingell of Dearborn – is raising doubts about some of the conditions placed on the loans for Chrysler LLC and General Motors, saying “it is irresponsible during a time of economic crisis for the White House to insist that workers take further wage cuts.”

June 23, 2008 | The Wall Street Journal | Stephen Power and Ian Talley
Panel Cites Surge in Speculative Oil Trades
The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which conducted the inquiry into the oil futures markets, has scheduled a hearing for Monday to call attention to the increasing role that financial investors are playing in the oil futures market.

May 31, 2008 | The New York Times | Editorial
Bureaucrats and the Cloven-Hoofed
As if there’s not enough on its smorgasbord of potential threats, the Department of Homeland Security is studying whether the government’s contagious animal disease lab can be moved to mainland farm country from its longtime island outpost off the coast of New York.

April 15, 2008 | Detroit Free Press | Todd Spangler
Medicare plan would cost Michigan business, advocacy group says
Using one of the U.S. government’s own formulas for figuring out the impact of regulatory change, a group advocating for affordable health care argued Tuesday that Bush administration plans to change Medicaid could cost Michigan billions of dollars in lost business and thousands of jobs.

April 7, 2008 | CQ Weekly | Drew Armstrong
For FDA, Congress Readies a Bitter Pill
Dingell would expand the FDA’s regulatory authority to the developing world by settingaside money for a team of full-time inspectors overseas; authorizing country-of-origin labeling on drugs, medical devices and food products; and levying new user fees on manufacturers to finance spot checks at overseas drug plants and at U.S. points of entry.

March 11, 2008 | Roll Call | Steven T. Dennis
Industry, Congress Warm Up to Carbon Cap
Plenty of roadblocks remain, but the wheels of legislation are turning, particularly inthe House Energy and Commerce Committee, where Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.)and Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-Va.) are writing a bill aimed at winning support from both sides of the aisle as well as from both major industry groups and environmentalists.

February 14, 2008 | Detroit Free Press | Todd Spangler
Bill for new casinos advances
An old plan to put American Indian casinos in Romulus and Port Huron got new life Wednesday, as a House committee overwhelmingly approved itdespite strong opposition from some other tribes, rival casinos and Detroit officials.

February 12, 2008 | Politico | Anne Schroeder
Dingell’s valentine
A year from Thursday — Valentine’s Day, mind you — Dingell will officiallybecome the longest-serving House member ever, beating out the late Mississippi Dem Jamie Whitten.

February 7, 2008 | The Detroit News | Gregg Krupa
Dingell questions fed aid of Iraq war refugees
U.S. Rep. John Dingell is asking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice what the federal government intends to do to assist the 4.5 million Iraqi refugees and people displaced internally within the country as a result of the war, which will be five years old next month.

December 24, 2007 | The Detroit News | News Brief
Dingell asks Comcast to reconsider changes
U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Dearborn, on Friday announced he's submitted a letter to the CEO of the Comcast Corp. challenging a decision requiring customers to lease additional equipment from the company to view public, education and governmental channels.

December 19, 2007 | The New York Times | Editorial
The Energy Bill: A Hero and a Villain
But there has always been a softer, “greener” side to this crusty octogenarian that people often overlook. An architect of the original Clean Water Act of 1972, [Dingell] cares a lot about wetlands preservation, endangered species and other environmental causes.

December 5, 2007 | Press & Guide | Tim Powers
Vehicle mileage standards among bills on federal legislative plate
One of the main thrusts of Dingell's attention was a federal energy bill that deals with corporate average fuel economy — CAFE — standards on autos, energy and global warming.

May 31, 2007 | Time | David Von Drehle
An Auto Insider Takes on Climate Change
The art of moving a major bill is an elusive mix of endurance, persuasion, negotiation, intimidation--and timing. The field is sown with favors large and small over many years and watered with occasional menace. (Ask Dingell how he feels about being called "the meanest s.o.b. in Congress," and he quietly answers, "It's very useful.") With luck, the seeds bear fruit when the votes are finally counted.

December 18, 2005 | US News and World Report | Paul Bedard
About Those Side Pockets on a Cow
Rep. John Dingell isn't just the third-longest-serving House member ever, passing the 50-year mark last week at a Hill lunch to celebrate his 1955 election to replace his father. He's also one of the few who can break up the dreadful bureaucracy-speak with folksy sayings like "That's about as useful as side pockets on a cow..."

December 8, 2005 | USAToday | Kathy Kiely
In 50 years, change hasn't hindered Dingell in Congress
When Rep. John Dingell first arrived in Congress from Detroit, tailfins and V-8 engines were the rage among new car buyers. His hometown was the nation's fourth most populous city. And his Democrats were a year into a 40-year reign as majority party in the House.

April 24, 2004 | The Blade | George J. Tanber
Wildlife refuge is a labor of love
The boat carrying the U.S. House of Representatives' longest-serving member glided across the Detroit River yesterday moring, dodging walleye fishermen, freighters, and sand bars.

March 24, 1993 | The Los Angeles Times | Karen Tumulty
Point Man for Health Reform
But a different Dingell emerges as he begins to talk about his father. Awe finds its way into his voice as he begins: "Pop was not an ideologue; he was a philosopher. He did a lot of thinking on things where you could make this country better, fairer."

September 30, 1991 | The New York Times | David E. Rosenbaum
Michigan Democrat Presides As Capital's Grand Inquisitor
This year alone, Representative John D. Dingell's investigations helped force the resignation of the president of Stanford University and led a Nobel Prize-winning scientist to retract a research paper. The Congressman also uncovered mismanagement at the Food and Drug Administration and overbilling at Humana hospitals.

March 5, 1990 | The Wall Street Journal | David Rogers
Rep. Dingell Wields Wide Power to Probe Much of U.S. Industry
As the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Mr. Dingell can be both advocate and arbiter in disputes between the Baby Bells and American Telephone & Telegraph, hospital and insurers, stockbrokers, and banks. Because of its historic role in creating agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the panel that he heads reaches into executive-branch decision-making in a fashion matched by few others.

April 24, 1988 | The Blade | Jack Torry
The Alligator: Mean, smart, tough, and blunt — meet Big John Dingell of Michigan
John Dingell makes no secret that he relishes his reputation as the House's meanest, smartest, toughest, and bluntest man.

June 4, 1986 | The New York Times | Nathaniel C. Nash
How a Huntsman Stalks His Legislative Prey
These and other hunting mementos seem to speak a parable about Mr. Dingell: By almost every account, he is one of the most feared and effective members of Congress, as well as perhaps on e of the most complex.