john dingell the longest senching house member ever in history.ou had two giants going head to head. and because they have been around for so long, you can be sure they had a lot of allies and networks in the broader influence community that they could engage to try to determine whether one or the other is going to prevail and get the votes to do that. after the committee makes its recommendation, they have to submit it to either the democrat caucus or republican conference and this partisan instrument atlanta -- instrument can direct the committee and last is pro forma and the house and senate vote to place people on standing committees respectively. and then policy making, basically that boils down, you have hearings, markups and reports. those are the major stages. hearing process, obviously, no lobbyists or the people they represent are going to be up there to testify. they have read the testimony of people and worked with the committee staff to

at the same time the great irish scientist john dingell discovered co2 traps infrared radiation. have already begun to use coal at the beginning of the industrial revolution and that began to accelerate. but will overtook coal and now the two of them together, both rich in carbon, represent the principal source of fuel for our economy and shifting away from these dirty polluting fuels is one of the principal challenges that we face in solving the climate crisis. it is not the only one. i go into the others in this book as well. in section ii of the book i focus in on the principal sources of energy that we can get from renewable sources. first of all, solar energy. there is enough sunlight that falls on the surface of our planet in one hour to equal a full year's supply of energy for the entire world. the scientists and engineers have gotten better and better, better and better at capturing and converting that sunlight into electricity. there are two principal ways they do that if you don't count the hot water heaters which are very effective and we ought to make greater use of t

waxman in the class of 1974, john dingell, the longest serving house member ever in history.ave two giants of the lawmaking process going head to head. because they have been around so long, you can be sure that they had a lot of allies, a lot of that works out there in the broader influence committee -- community that they could engage and be part of their formal team to determine whether or not one or the other will prevail and get the votes to do that. because a second step is after the committee on committees makes its recommendation, they have to submit it to either the democratic caucus or the republican conference in both chambers, for that matter. part of the instrumentality -- the heart of the party instrumentality can approve or reject. and the last stage is basically pro form, and that is the house and senate vote to place people on standing committees of each party respectively. and then policy-making, basically, that boils down to three phrases. hearings, marked and report. -- mark up and report. no lobbyists or people they represent are going to be up there to t