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'''John David Dingell, Jr.''' (born July 8, 1926 – February 7, 2019) was the [[DemocraticDemocrat]] U.S. Representative representative for [[Michigan]]'s 15th current 12th congressional district, which includes Monroe County, parts of Washtenaw County and Wayne County, and the southwest suburbs of [[Detroit]], from 1995 to 2015. Taking the seat that his father held before him, Dingell is the longest the third longest serving House member ever.
Dingell voted with a majority of his Democratic Democrat colleagues 98.2% of the time during the current at one point in [[Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/d000355/</ref> He voted against authorizing military force in [[Iraq]] and stated he was not against [[Hezbollah]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDNodOVnO14</ref> He supports [[liberal]]s on [[education]], [[energy]], the [[environment]], and government-run [[health care]]. Some of Dingell's stances are were [[conservative]], -leaning; he strongly opposes [[gun control]] and received a 100% rating from the [[National Rifle Association]], and voted to ban [[partial birth abortion]].
In August 2009, Dingell compared opponents of [[Obamacare]] to the [[Ku Klux Klan]] (an organization that was created by Democrats).<ref>https://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/11/video-dingell-says-town-hall-protests-remind-him-of-the-klan/</ref>