Ex-House Commerce Chairman Dingell Recovering From Heart Attack

Retired longtime House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich., is “in good spirits, cracking jokes like always" at a Detroit area hospital after an apparent heart attack Monday, said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., his wife, in a statement. John Dingell, long one of the top members of the House on communications policy, was the committee’s lead Democrat beginning in 1981 until House Democrats ousted him after the 2008 election in favor of now ex-Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. John Dingell left the House in 2015 after choosing not to seek re-election (see 1402250056).