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mr. dingell: i thank my good friend. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend just for a moment, please. the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dingell: this is a gavel i used when i pre the speaker pro tempore: sided over the passage of medicare. and when i presided over the passage of legislation called a.c.a. this legislation takes care of the american people. i'm willing to say to my republican colleagues they can use it for a good cause. what is important here, you are going to lose the debate because the american people know what you're trying to take away from them. this is the 31st time we voted on this and it isn't a law. we have 44 days left to finish the business of this congress and interestingly enough we are not going to deal with important questions like jobs, employment, the economy. the worst economy that the president inherited since the days of herbert hoov

mr. dingell: i thank my good friend. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend just for a moment, please. the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. dingell: this is a gavel i used when i pre the speaker pro tempore: sided over the passage of medicare. and when i presided over the passage of legislation called a.c.a. this legislation takes care of the american people. i'm willing to say to my republican colleagues they can use it for a good cause. what is important here, you are going to lose the debate because the american people know what you're trying to take away from them. this is the 31st time we voted on this and it isn't a law. we have 44 days left to finish the business of this congress and interestingly enough we are not going to deal with important questions like jobs, employment, the economy. the worst economy that the president inherited since the days of herbert hoov

mr. dingell. take that and $0.50 and in texas you get a dr. pepper. it is good to be on the committee regardless what the title are. i notice the previous commissioners were unbelievably polite but not unique. i would like to go into waters that are a little murkier. your predecessor was not known for his collegiality with his fellow commissioners. there were some fairly rigorous attempts to withhold information and manipulate decisionmaking. would you care to give us your view on how you plan to manage decisionmaking an information gathering and dissemination at the commission? >> i am committed to being as collegial as possible. i regard my fellow commissioners as mike year equals and they should have access to all the information i have access to. i am committed to sharing with them written information from my office and directed my staff to be as open with their staff. >> you don't plan to use your position as chairman to withhold to shape the outcome of decisions. you plan to use the position to gather, share on an equal basis whatever informatio

mr. dingell, the chairman emeritus. >> mr. chairman, i have find opening statement which i'm going to ask to be put in the record. this is a -- we been suffering through this on many occasions, having wonderful set of hearings, totally unrelated to the facts, with about the same reality as alice in wonderland, on a bill that was supported strongly by the leadership and the members of the republican party. and now we hear how we are going to correct this whole legislation by a new piece of legislation. committee under the leadership of my republican colleague has been blundering around, crashing into walls, finding nothing, issuing the most inflammatory press releases imaginable, and thinking apparently the constant repetition of this nonsense is going to make somebody believe it. the harsh fact of the matter is that nothing wrong has been found except things that are low and fail because the chinese cut the prices of, of in film electrical generating stuff from, that draws its power from the sun. and so my republican friends a

mr. dingell, chairman emeritus. >> mr. chairman, i have an opening statement, which are going to last to be put in the record. we have been suffering through this on many occasions, having a wonderful set of hearings, totally unrelated to the facts and having the same reality of alice in wonderland on a bill supported by the leadership in numbers of the republican party and now we hear how we're going to correct this whole legislation by a new piece of legislation. the committee under the leadership by republican colleagues has been blundering around, crash into walls, finding nothing and issuing press releases and again apparently that constitute repetition of this nonsense is going to make somebody believe it. the harsh fact of the matter is than expected at a loss because the chinese cut the price says of thin-film electrical generating stubs from the power from the sun. and so my republican friends are crashing around him issuing press releases that sounds like their imagination, but demonstrating the wisdom in additio

mr. dingell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. dingell: i ask unanimous consent to advise and -- to revise and extend my remarks. i rise in strong support of h.r. 1627, the honoring america's veterans and caring for camp lejeune families act. this is long overdue and the most note worthy thing that we could observe about the behavior of the military leadership is they have been uncooperative and have been most diligent in obfuscating the problem and seeing to it that the matter has been unduly dawdled over while our military personnel were put at risk and placed in position where their familyings also sheared that risk and hazard. i want to thank the chairman, mr. miller, the ranking member, mr. filner, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. boler and mr. michaud for the things they have done to see that justice is finally being done. the victims of the camp lejeune disaster have waited too long for themselves and their family. with passage -- the passage of this legislation today is an important first step for moving forward and p

mr. dingell to the record. >> the statement will appear in the record. >> i ask unanimous consent to submit a statement mr. conyers to the record. i ask unanimous consent to insert an article from the hill to the record. >> article from the hell will appear without objection. >> and quite apart from that, revealing president obama's health care law would let members of congress keep the government subsidized insurance coverage after they retire, and of course the rest of the article would be available for members. >> we look forward to that. >> i would yield back. >> the vote occurs. >> i have not read that article. is the suggestion that the vote tomorrow is somehow a self-serving vote for the members of congress and the health care benefits as opposed to all the other things we will talk about today? >> as a matter of fact it could have been carved out by the republican majority so the republican majority did intend to make sure the members of congress that their benefits i don't know if they are predicting perhaps in a large number of retirements on the other side of the polls were not.

mr. levin: i think i want to remember those in the state of michigan who years and years ago argued this issue. i think i'll go back to john dingell's father who was from michigan, a member of this distinguished body, who started with others this effort to bring health insurance to every person in this country. after seven decades of failure, this now happened and the republicans want to repeal it without anything to replace it. so i'll quote again governor romney, mitt romney, and he said, a conservative approach is one that relies on individual responsibility. but in my view, when others are free to disagree, expecting people who can afford to buy insurance to do so is consistent with personal responsibility. and that's a cornstone of conservativism. it's a cornerstone of america as a community and to repeal this is to undermine the sense and reality of community in the united states of america. remembering the past and looking to the future, we must vote no to repeal. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. camp. mr. camp: i yield myself the balanc