let me present to you our friend, john dingell. [ applause ] >> congressman dingell, we present this award to you. it says in part "in grateful recognition of your lifetime leadership in the united states congress and for all you've done to advance greater public understanding and appreciation of america's representativ democracy." congressman dingell? [ applause ] >> thank you, my friend, ron. my former colleague. and you, my friend, fred, thank you for your gracious introduction. mr. speaker, madam leader, my dear friend, ted cochran with whom i serve with and my wonderful friend, dan inouye. receiving this great honor is important and i'm very proud and very much honored. but standing on this platform with my friend dan inouye who is a real american hero is something that brings me particular pride and pleasure. our friendship goes a long way back. as he said, i was one of the early members to meet him when he came here. and it's also to be remembered that my family helped his family select the doctor who was going to take care of his wonderful wife, maggie, during the birth of on

let me present to you our friend john dingell. [applause] >> congressman dingell, we print -- we present this award you, which says in part, we recognize your the gousha in the u.s. congress and for all you have done to a advance greater understanding of america's representative democracy. congressman dingell. [applause] >> thank you, my friend, my former colleagues. and you, my friend, thank you for your gracious introduction. mr. speaker, madam leader, my dear friend with whom i served on the migratory bird commission, and my wonderful , this honorinouye w is very important and i'm very proud and very much honored. but standing on this platform with my friend dan inouye, who was a real american hero, is something that brings me particular pride and pleasure. our friendship goes along way back, as he said. i was one of the early members to meet him when he came here. it is also to be remembered that my family helped his family select a doctor who was going to take care of his wonderful wife, maggie, during the birth of one of his

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dingell have worked together for mr. years both in their home state of michigan and in their work asgnments in congress. mr. upton has represented the sixth district of michigan since 1987. in 2010 he was selected by his house colleagues to serve as chairman of the commite on energy and commerce. ter having served as the ranking member of the subcommittee on energy and environment from 2007 to 2010. fred has a well-earned reputation for getting things done in washington and at home in southwest michigan. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome congressman fred upton. [ applause ] >> thank you. it is my job to introduce my dear friend, john dingell. he certainly has looked out for our great state of michigan virtually every day and every night. and by anyone's definition he is more than just a legend. he's a remarkable character in every respect. a world war ii vet a member of that greatest generation who never asked for thanks for a job well done but just did his job. and that attitude has carried on in his service in the h

dingell? mr. dingell votes no. mr. waxman. mr. waxman votes no. chairman sterns? >> chairman turns sternses vote aye. >> mr. sullivan votes eye. . . >> well -- first of all, it's the department of energy. who also is involved the department of management and budget because they review the decision so our committee asks d.o.e. for information and we got 65,000 pages from them including correspondence that they had with the white house about this loan. some people at omb had a different opinion about solyndra. so we asked omb for their information. before they had a chance to get it to the congress, this committee moved to subpoena them, which i thought was premature and inappropriate. but it is a far different thing to subpoena the omb than to subpoena the president of the united states. i don't think they should be rushed into any circumstance if there's an opportunity to work things out. we didn't give an opportunity to omb to work things out. we slammed them with a subpoena which i opposed as premature. not because i didn't want to get the information. but let u

we also have our women's dingell-dressed dancers. followed by our women's fancy shalwl. naomi and baby, good to see you. how about a big welcome for are a tiny tots, our youngsters. good singing, good dancing. looking good. grass dancers bringing up the tail end of our dancers. one more time, big round of applause for our intertribal dnacers. i am sorry just watching them dance. all right. bringing our men's traditional to the arena. mr. swimmer. mr. baird child. going to friendship house drum. an appropriate song for our dancers. make them dance. all right. looking good out there, dancers. there you go. show us what you got. how about a big round of applause for our men's no. traditional dancers. all right. then, southern straits, stand by. all right. thank you dancers. thank you, singers. do we have any mends southern strait? ok, going back to our women's southern claw. make your way into the arena. how about women's northern traditional as well. i just realized we do not have a southern drum. no. the ladies, stand by. when you are ready. make them dance. [singing] how

dingell and ms. slaughter who are wonderful colleagues and friends in this house, but this amendment is the bishop amendment on steroids. so this amendment unlike the bishop amendment would go back and remove the requirement that's in the bill and new york would be free to go about its business and shut down water-borne commerce in the great lakes. the sad thing for the state of new york, and i know the people of new york think that they are pretty important and run the whole place, but they don't, and sadly we have five great lakes that flow through and touch a number of states, ohio being inclusive of that, and just a couple of observations. this isn't a bunch of people that don't like the great lakes versus a bunch of environmentalists that want to protect it. the very first piece of legislation i had signed into law by president clinton, it's tough to get a bill signed into law by a president of the other party, was the re-authorization of the national invasive species act, co-authored by john gl

dingell is referring to. i would ask the chairman, because your staff can bust the subpoena and this subpoena says all documents in the possession of the executive office of the president relating to the $535 million loan guarantee issued to solyndra by the department of energy including but not limited to notes, analogies, reports, memoranda. this is the subpoena that the committees that has advised us it intends to serve on the white house. i ask that that be included in the record. is it not true that that is the subpoena you intend to serve upon them? i will yield to be chairman. >> i did not hear the end of your statement. this resolution we are voting on today authorizes the chairman of energy and commerce to issue a subpoena. you have seen some draft language. it is not done yet. that contract language -- draft language was written long before the statement of last night. it is not done. as i said in my opening statement, we are going to use what the white house presented to us last night. >> reclaimin

said, democratic strategist married to john dingell said it is about 50/50 here in michigan, even though the republican party officials in michigan are in favor of it, against the republican grain here, here it is sort of 50/50. >> what about the bigger picture also in terms of the elections, whatever warning signs that both parties may have gotten from voting yesterday. we saw the ohio vote which was to reject republican governors moving against collective bargaining agreements for public employees, and also saw it in mississippi. really interesting rejection of what would have been the toughest anti-abortion law. >> i do draw a string here. if you put mississippi, ohio, and the healthcare law that went down, it was voters and in arizona, recall of the state senator, even maine, seems like voters said hey, don't go too far. don't push your ideology all the way to the wall. i may be pro-life, but don't take away some of the access to birth control. i may be worried about immigration, but let's not single out a group. i may be worried about unions. that's what you seem to see. voters are

dingell had been using when he was full committee and subcommittee chairmen. [inaudible] >> i will at the appropriate time, as my good friend knows. so, we may have updated it because back in those days, e-mail wasn't a big thing and blackberries didn't exist, but our basic subpoena request, and document requests, is a standard format that democrats have used in republicans have used, this committee, literally for decades. and with all due respect, i understand my friends on the democratic side have to walk a fine line. they have to protect the president of their own party but they also have to try to be objective and support an investigation. it's gratifying to know that they and the white house have magnanimously decided that this is a legitimate investigation. we appreciate that. we knew that although long. but if you really want to get the facts and the white house doesn't want to comply, doesn't want to cooperate, they just want to sandbag and drag their feet and gladly comply next tuesday, then we have to issued his subpoena. it has to be broad, and they

dingell dangle. >> william shatner had a little bit of a problem because he wanted to do it his own way. >> turn off the flame. that's too much oil. where is the dingle dangle? >> what this really is is an ad campaign by state farm. but what's really interesting in this ad campaign, they show you what happens if you don't follow the instructions for frying a turkey the proper way. >> and they have firefighters that demonstrate what happens when people don't do the right thing. >> the most important rule for frying a turkey, i know this because i fry a turkey every year at thanksgiving, you cannot put a frozen turkey into a deep fryer. >> this just seems like a whole lot of extra effort to make a turkey -- >> you haven't had a deep fried turkey at thanksgiving you have not lived yet. >> i'll eat it. i'm fine with that. >> seems like it's way too dangerous. >> if shatner's arm is really on fire do you think that's how he would react the way he did. oh. >> shatner's arm is on fire. >> ow. >>> two interesting performances. >> that one got me. that one got me. >> it's the music for one dance

heather: dingell by the way was receiving a congressional freedom award. he didn't specifically reference the super-committee but insiders say it was pretty clear what he was talking about. bill? actually this is me. so the super-committee, it has until wednesday, just to clarify, to cut $1.2 trillion in spending. if they fail, a series of sweeping automatic cuts take effect. they would be divided nearly 50/50 between domestic and defend spending. they would go into full effect just over a year from now in 2013. bill: now it is my turn, right? heather: now it is your turn. bill: how bad is the debt? 15 trillion this week. on the map behind us, all the countries you see in red, that highlights some of the nine largest economies in the world. you can add all the debt from all these countries together, they still do not reach where we are today. indonesia, plus south korea, italy and spain, france added with the u.k., brazil which is huge and growing by the week. mexico and canada, all together their debt does not equal what we have today on our table. what d

dingell. >> first of all, i ask unanimous consent for 2 additional minutes. i do not want to be recognized for a full five minutes. >> i would ask unanimous consent for one additional minute. >> let me make one observation. i never served a subpoena on the white house. the subpoenas were always discussed with the minority. we had a policy that we would always discuss them before we issued them. i did that with the gentleman from texas and guided it with every other ranking republican member -- and i did it with every other ranking republican member. none of those things are being complied with. . this is a fishing expedition. we're asking for everything from the president's schedule, to his travel plans, to where he was going to meet on every matter related to this investigation. this is a fishing expedition and there is no way of getting around that. >> ok, anyone else? the gentleman from georgia. >> quite honestly, what we're dealing with here, we are the subcommittee on oversight and investigation. we have a responsibility to the american people. this loan

that letter also called the subpoena a vast fishing expedition and they credit john dingell with thinkingchairman disagrees. he thinks every document is relevant because he thinks the white house gave preference to investors ahead of taxpayer when is it came to loan repayment. adding to that, republican congressman tim murphy said this earlier today. >> white house is trying to throw us off. this if this is okay, be forth coming and show us the records. they're engaging in chicago-style politics, going after chairman stern and others and myself trying to throw people off the track. >> in their letter, the white house concludes by saying they remain willing to work with the committee, but they say the committee needs to narrow the scope of the documents they want. so the white house is basically saying, if republicans want their documents about solyndra, they need to make a wish list. they can't just ask for everything. heather? >> heather: peter doocy in washington. thanks. >> gregg: the senior american military official is now saying that iran has surpassed al-qaeda as the top threat to

of "time" will put together that incredible cover story you all have in front of you today, rick's dingellapplause] the summit would not have happened without the leadership, the generosity, and the support of these four organizations. i would ask each of their leaders to come up and have a brief conversation with you now. thank you. [applause] >> before i begin, i think we should thank kevin jennings and mark edwards for bringing us together to launch this campaign. thank you. [applause] across this country in town halls, wall street, the question of economic opportunity is being debated in ways we have not seen since the great depression. for me, opportunity is synonymous with the promise that brought my family to this country. the unshakable belief that tomorrow will inexorably be better than today. when we arrived in this country, when my family arrived in this country, they had virtually nothing. it is a story we all share. it is a story everyone in this room shares. they were migrants, like all of you in this room eventually work, landing in the east village on fifth street. there wa

of "time" will put together that incredible cover story you all have in front of you today, rick's dingell [applause] the summit would not have happened without the leadership, the generosity, and the support of these four organizations. i would ask each of their leaders to come up and have a brief conversation with you now. thank you. [applause] >> before i begin, i think we should thank kevin jennings and mark edwards for bringing us together to launch this campaign. thank you. [applause] across this country in town halls, wall street, the question of economic opportunity is being debated in ways we have not seen since the great depression. for me, opportunity is synonymous with the promise that brought my family to this country. the unshakable belief that tomorrow will inexorably be better than today. when we arrived in this country, when my family arrived in this country, they had virtually nothing. it is a story we all share. it is a story everyone in this room shares. they were migrants, like all of you in this room eventually work, landing in the east village on fifth street. there