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After serving as the committee's ranking Democrat for 12 years, Dingell regained the chairmanship in 2007.

According to Newsweek, he had wanted to investigate the George W. Bush Administration's handling of port security, the Medicare prescription drug program and Dick Cheney's energy task force.

Time magazine has stated that he had intended to oversee legislation that addresses global warming and climate change caused by carbon emissions from automobiles, energy companies and industry ( citation: June 2007 issue, Time magazine ).