Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Michigan has 29 superdelegates; 27 have been named and two more will be appointed next month if the state's disallowed delegation is reseated. Of those superdelegates, seven have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, including Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Rep. John Dingell. Two are backing Barack Obama: Rep. John Conyers and DNC member Virgie Rollins.
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Moonbattery reports. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) is regrettably chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The reason he opposes lightening up on new ethanol requirements is priceless: it could "lead to unintended consequences." Too bad clowns like Dingleberry didn't think of unintended consequences before they started imposing biofuels in the first place. When people get hungry enough,...
mediageek (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Matthew Lasar continues his excellent reporting for Ars Technica with an article on a recent letter from House Energy and Commerce Chair John Dingell (D-MI) and Internet subcommittee Chair Edward J. Markey (D-MA) to the FCC urging an open platform for satellite radio if the Commission approves the Sirius/XM deal. What they're calling for is [...]
Kicking Ass Ann Arbor (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
... party lines. Former Senator Spence Abraham and Sheriff Mike Bouchard are both Arab-American and John Engler got massive portions of that vote when he ran for office. This brings us to Congressman Dingell specifically. He is accused of being anti-Israel by many of the predictable corners of political punditry. This perception was not helped in 2006 when he voted against the resolution...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Reps. John Dingell (D-MI) and Edward Markey (D-MA) have asked the FCC to add an open platform requirement to the proposed XM/Sirius merger, a sign that key media reform groups have their ear. Read More...
Orbitcast (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Two key Democrat lawmakers sent a letter address to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today, urging for conditions "to protect consumers" in the proposed merger between Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, and Telecommunications Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-MA), called for pricing caps...
SIRIUS Backstage (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
In a letter sent to FCC chairman Kevin Martin today, Congressman John Dingell (D-MI) chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee argues that 2 conditions ought to be set by the FCC before they approve the merger. The first condition would be to hold the merged company to it's proposed pricing models. The second is that [...]
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
North Carolinians owe U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., their gratitude for leading the fight against Bush administration regulations that would cut Medicaid funds totaling $2.7 billion to the state and $50 billion nationwide over the next five years. A bill sponsored by Dingell to put the regulations on hold for a year passed the House Wednesday with strong bipartisan support and...
Nye -- Gateway to Nevada's Rurals (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Representative John Dingell (D-Mich) chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, is seeking to overhaul the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to recalls of food and tainted medicine. Under the proposal, food producers would have to pay annual registration fees of $2,000 per facility, generating $600 million for FDA food safety activities, more than doubling the current...
warming (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Everybody Else vs. the Washington Post (and John Dingell) President Bush’s “big” global warming speech last week fell flat with many key audiences. Not completely so the editors of the Washington Post, who, while fiercely criticizing the White House’s proposal and its history to date, have bought into its hyperbolic spin about the impacts of [...]
Schwitzer health news blog (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
The RPM Report states: There’s no love lost between Rep. John Dingell and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach. That tenuous relationship—and a little congressional theatrics—were on display during the Energy & Commerce hearing into FDA’s overseas drug inspections process.... The...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) on Thursday released draft legislation that would make broad regulatory changes to FDA and increase funds for the agency, CQ Today reports. The legislation -- which takes provisions from several bills, such as (
Best Woman Life (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) on Thursday released draft legislation that would make broad regulatory changes to FDA and increase funds for the agency, CQ Today reports.
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
Pharmaceutical News House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) width=396 align=left vspace=5 border=0> This article is republished with kind permission from our friends at the The Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser [...]
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
The Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday that Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has decided to rule out a carbon tax or an increase in gas taxes to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. To explain...
