Former Rep. John Dingell Jr. (D-MI), “the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who helped write most of the nation’s major environmental and energy laws, died Thursday,” the Detroit News repots. He was 92.

Politico: “Dingell’s power came from his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the panel he controlled from 1981 until 1995, and then again from 2007 to 2009, when he was knocked off by California Rep. Henry Waxman, whose candidacy was tacitly backed by Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Dingell foe.”

“So vast was Dingell’s jurisdiction atop ‘E & C’ that the entire planet came under his purview.”