
**FILE** U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu (second from right) listens as Jason Forcier (right), vice president and general manager of A123 Systems, shows off a battery at their plant in Romulus, Mich., on July 18, 2011. Standing at left is A123 President and CEO David Vieau and Rep. John Dingell, Michigan Democrat. (Associated Press)

Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich.), center, speaks with retired Navy Seaman McKenley Morgan, of Flint, Mich., left, and his son Bruce Morgan, of Virginia Beach, Va., second from left, and retired Army Sgt. Stanley Kaczor, of Woodhaven, Mich., right, both World War II veterans, at the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program which flies U.S. veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich.), center, speaks with retired Navy Seaman McKenley Morgan, of Flint, Mich., left, and his son Bruce Morgan, of Virginia Beach, Va., second from left, and retired Army Sgt. Stanley Kaczor, of Woodhaven, Mich., right, both World War II veterans, at the World War II memorial on the 68th anniversary of D-Day as part of the Honor Flights program which flies U.S. veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit memorials on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

** FILE ** Marcelas Owens (foreground left) of Seattle, Rep. John Dingell (seated at right) and others look on as President Obama signs the heath care reform bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)