While I respect Congressman Dingell’s service, I learned via Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast that he and his office could be particularly bullying of people who appeared before his committee. The instance he particularly talks about was with Bernadine Healy, the first woman to head the NIH, whom he accused in graphic terms of sleeping with a male scientist then signing off on his grants as a favor.
I hope that he’s being comforted and kept pain-free, but would find it karmic if it came from one of those grants.
He has been an amazing presence on twitter! A John Dingell tweet is always worthy of a retweet.