Dingell Reassures Auto Suppliers. By David Shepardson, Detroit News, June 12, 2008. "U.S. Rep. John Dingell... said Wednesday he is working to complete a wide-ranging climate change proposal that would stand a better chance of passage than a Senate bill rejected last week. Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee... said [the] Senate bill rejected Friday was 'poorly written' and never had a chance... The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act got 48 votes -- 12 shy of ending debate and putting it to a vote, [meaning] it likely won't be considered again this year... Dingell told the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association... at a luncheon on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the climate bill he was working on would be a 'balanced, decent, sensible piece of legislation.' Passing a climate bill 'is not only a matter of almost supreme technical difficulty,' Dingell said, 'but it is a matter of extraordinary political concern, as the Senate found out'... 'The environmentalists and others -- including the do-gooders -- who care relatively little about your industry are able to be quite frankly outshouted,' Dingell told the auto supplier group. 'The rightness of your cause is not necessarily measured by the volume of your voice.'"
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