What bill does Congressman John Dingell introduce at the beginning of each session?
The congressman from the 15th District of Michigan is John Dingell, the dean of the House of Representatives and until late 2008 chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. His father, John Dingell, Sr., was first elected to the House in 1932; the first Congressman Dingell was one of the most productive urban liberals of his day. John Dingell Jr. has been around Capitol Hill almost as long. He was a House page from 1938–43 and served in the Army in World War II. After his father died in September 1955, Dingell was elected to succeed him in December, at 29, from a district entirely within Detroit with large Polish, black and Jewish populations. He still uses his father’s office furniture and every session continues to introduce as H.R. 15 (the number matches the district) the national health insurance bill his father co-sponsored in 1943. He is the only member of the House who served in the 1950s. He has an interesting personal life, raising his children after his divorce and marryin
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