run for office before for many years i want to wrong i would never think of running against john dingell and. redistricting occurred earlier this year quoting me into against tim walberg who i think it's a very vulnerable incumbent in that's what led me to run. and so you say you know you say that the government this is pretty much a sting operation and that clip that we saw earlier i didn't show the full clip but you were telling that fox affiliate that you think it's made to expand you know the domestic policies these these body scanners and all these airports is that is that what you think this was about kurt well it could be it's a legitimate sting operation you're rushed the person reports the plane you don't let you know. you know it once and a device that can explode it but if it causes a fire going on the stock or a plane don so if you're going to conduct a legitimate sting operation you're us the man since you board the plane before you had a chance to endanger the lives and on your t.v. not gas and that's not what occurred here and you know i have a whole. a great deal of. fort

dingell mr. dingell is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. dr. smith and commissioner, it is possible for the two of you to execute memorandums of understanding, is it not? >> yes. >> is there any reason why you could not or would not begin to devote your attention to achieving such a memorandums of understanding so you could define where the authorities of food and drug live, and the authorities of the agency in the state of massachusetts like? are you willing to undertake that, ladies? >> i certainly think that there are multiple opportunities for us to do better in terms of communicate she and and that sort of thing. .. >> and if we cannot complete our business by year end because of the senate or other things, that we are able, therefore -- because of your lakes -- of commencing the process of continuing along on a parallel track. are you willing to do that? >> we are certainly willing to do that, and we are pulling together all of the 50 states in order to -- >> i don't want to sort out the difficulties -- >> and the activities. [inaudible c

dingell, without objection. mr. dingell: thank you, mr. speaker. rise to welcome my good friend dave curson to the congress of the united states. he has spent his life serving his fellow man, first as a u.s. marine in vietnam and then as a representative of the u.a.w. and now as a member of distinguished body. he is first and foremost a family man. he has been married who his wonderful wife of 22 years, sharon. together with her, he has done an extraordinary job of raising two daughters and one son. they are lisa, katie and david, junior. i have no doubt that our good friend, david, will do a magnificent job representing the interests of the people of the 11th district. he can count on my support and that of my colleagues. and i hope that my colleagues will give him that courtesy. dave is a good man and the nation is fortunate that we have him here. mr. speaker, at this moment, i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from michigan, mr. up ton, the dean of the republican delegation. the speaker: if the gentleman would suspend. the house will be i

dingell. very frustrated about what was going on and wanted to get to the bottom of this and wanting to, as we all think about the fda's proper role, this would be it. as we all identify facilities in our own districts i know that when i go visit it is clean as a whistle, it really is. people are proud to have the jobs that they have, and sterile as you can imagine and i can't for the life of me as we read about this information from eyewitness accounts and inspections that were there before, and to have a go on and on and on without a follow-up and without a -- that is not what anyone is expecting the fda to do. it needs to stop. as americans we demand that poor manufacturing here. we also expected to happen overseas. your inspections in china and other places, the products that are being produced are saved not only for americans but for all. you know we get terribly frustrated and i know you tried to, yesterday afternoon and it was my first day back. we will continue to communicate i can ass

dingell, mr. dingell that we are going to get this information. there so much that we have asked for that your agency has not given us. we need the insurance that you will provide it. okay, my time has expired. >> i am pulling myself together. i'm going to ask a question. dr. hamburg i think you can agree with me that between 2002 and 2006, the fda made some attempts to investigate this and they were pretty inconclusive, correct? yes or no? yes or no? >> i apologize. >> okay you were not going to answer that. >> in april of 2002, the fda began an inspection of the new england compounding company, correct? yes or no. >> yes. >> and that inspection continued throughout the fall and winter of 2002 in 2003, correct? >> correct. >> now eventually, you weren't there. this was not your job to defend what they did, but in 2002, the fda investigators concluded after a lot of investigation that there were jurisdictional issues. is that correct, yes or no? >> that is correct. >> they then -- there was still an investigation but for the most part they turned

my teacher said if you have a carrot, dingell it in front of her. she has to learn to read. i was only ever allowed to act during holidays and only of my grades went up. it was used as a kind of thing but they thought it would get it out of my system. she will hit within two years and this will be a phase and it will go away. it did not. i think there are very sweet. they're very proud and very encouraging and the rest of it. if they had their way, i would be a lawyer. definitely. still. tavis: we see how well you have manage the career - -- manage te career of this band. how have you managed the dyslexia? >> i have had to go to auditions and the embarrassment of -- if they handed me a piece of paper and i could not read. if i had to read a teleprompter, i could not. it used to be i would have to get a script one week before an audition and i would really work on it. now it is much better. you have something in england which is being statemented. if you are deemed to be dyslexic you are given extra time and when i was 11 i was deemed to be fined. -- be fine. the words do jum

dingell. very frustrated about what was going on, wanting to get to the bottom of this, wanting -- as we all think about the f.d.a.'s proper role, this would be it. i mean as we all identify facilities in our own districts, i know when i go visit, it is clean as a whistle, it really is. people are proud to have the jobs that they have. it's as sterile as you can imagine. and i can't for the life of me, as we read about this information from eyewitness accounts and inspections that were there before, and to have it gone on and on and on without a follow-up, that is not what anyone is expecting the f.d.a. to do. it needs to stop. and americans, we demand that for manufacturing here. we also expect it to happen overseas. and a in your inspections in china and other places that the products that are being produced are safe for not only americans but all humans. and when we get terribly frustrated and i know you tried to call me yesterday afternoon and we will continue to communicate, but we want t

john dingell was has been following this story. -- john gonzales. >> the prosecution this morning isommended at least six days a present for the former d.c. council chairman. all of that contained because of what happened the last month. he was punished for failing to report on pre-trail services of three separate occasions. it will be interesting to see what the veteran decides later today. the judge known for being fair, but stern. he made in chicken and person each day for the past five weeks. he is being sentenced today on federal frank -- federal bank fraud charges. he stepped down as chairman of the council. this will be a very busy day for brown. not only will he be a federal court, but later this afternoon he will be in d.c. superior court on a separate misdemeanor campaign finance charge. both charges carry a maximum of six months in prison. reporting live, john gonzales abc7 news. >> getting to restore use of first tier. a shocking attack at a local high school. a former employer claimed she was assaulted at a football game in an attack she claims the school principal orche

dingell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. commissioner, yes or no answers, do you have sufficient authority to inspect compounding pharmacies? >> no. >> would you submit what authorities that you need, so we can see that it is done? do you have a tory to inspect all records when inspecting a compounding pharmacy? >> no. >> please submit what you need so that we can see it is given to you. do you have the authority to require compounding pharmacies to register with fda, yes or no? >> no. >> would you submit the authorities that are needed? do you have the authority to require compounding pharmacies to report adverse events to the fda? >> no. >> would you please submit what authorities you need in that area? you heard earlier my question about whether or not you have the authority to define who is a compounding pharmacy and who is a manufacturer. do you have the authority to do that or not? yes or no? >> yes, on a very technical level. >> if you need reform of that authority, submit that to us. >> we definitely will. >> do you

counterpoint, the institutional counterweight as a guy who spent a lot of time, his name is john dingell, a democrat from michigan, 85 years old, and he has been serving since 1955. previous to him, his father served in the same congressional district until his father died and his son then ran and took his place. you know, used to be thought of as a liberal. no one thinks of him as a liberal now, led the democrats don't because they marginalize them. did not find him sufficiently liberal. yet he is sort of proof, and they show it to you, that even with the democrats in the minority, even with him being removed from the pecking order of power, he is able to get things done. this wily guy knows how to pull strings on behalf of his district and get parts appropriated, to get bills passed. i mean, you pass this pipeline safety bill which is essentially a regulation built during the tea party congress. almost unheard of, and he is, i think, a dying breed. his philosophy is, you govern from the center. you begin writing a bill from the center, which means you bring everybody on board, get in a

and you know, for years john dingell from michigan wouldn't let anybody park in the congressional parkingave an american car. you know, it's real stuff up there. and to be on the wrong side of that issue and say yeah, go get bankrupt, buddy, it's unbelievable. and now he's done the same thing with fema, romney. talk about being wrong-footed. saying he wanted to get rid of fema, and now this storm comes along and you look like you're a dufus. i mean, it's his doing. it's not my name calling. why would you want to be a guy who wants to be opposed to dealing with natural disasters? how can you say you're against the federal government playing a role in natural disasters? and he says that very thing. he says the states should do it. >> well -- >> that's incredibly bad luck. >> the president's getting strong approval because of his way of handling a natural disaster like this. >> he should. >> can we look to the sunshine state? >> sure. >> there's this poll with the vifrt yule tie with president obama leading by just two points. who is it that needs florida the most at this point? >> oh, if ob

so congressman dingell, the floor is yours. >> thank you, madam chair tiffany's it's nice to see graduates from house as well innocent. thank you for having us spent idle if i graduated. i left. >> as you know, i've represent new york's 17th congressional district which includes parts of the bronx as well as rest just are just north of new york city. sandy is the largest tropical system ever recorded in the atlantic. the winds stretched 1100 miles in two in and she was brutal from the very beginning. sandy killed at least 69 people in the caribbean, including 54 in haiti and 11 into the. she crashed ashore in the united states. at the time to spend sandy had taken 131 american lives which included 53 new yorkers. inches the nukes the region, madam chairman, which you know well, 305,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, 2.4 million residents lost power. a transit system carried more than 8 million daily riders was forced to shut them. 37 health care facilities rising more than 6000 patients were forced to evacuate. 2000 miles of roads were damaged and 11 tunnels were flooded. the total econo

dingell is a dying breed. his philosophy is to govern from the center. you bring everybody on board. you talk about what they would like. it sounds pretty reasonable. the democrats were guilty of the same thing. magnum come all the way in that direction. >> it is the passing of an era. we have time for question period please use your outside the boys. we will take as many as they tell us we can take. when it tells the cannot take any more, we will cut you off. >> given the too big to fail banks are now bigger and more and givened than ever that the dodd/frank bill reforms have been deleted and delayed, i am assuming there'll be another banking crisis eventually. do you think that if another t.a.r.p. bill comes out to bail out the banks, do you think the two-party in house would go along with that? >> no. i think t.a.r.p. is still a dirty word, are together early in conservative circles. roy blunt helped put t.a.r.p. together. the conservative a portion of this party has never forgiven him for that. the point of view is that anything that basically causes