1.10.1966

Dingell introduces a bill to provide a prescription drug benefit as part of Medicare.  Dingell introduces this bill 6 months after the Medicare bill was signed into law and 6 months before the law went into effect.  (Detroit Free Press, 1.10.66, HR 11068)

[A Medicare prescription drug benefit is not enacted until 2003, passing 220-215.  It is such a bad plan that Dingell opposes it.  (11.22.03)]

11.4.1966

Dingell elected to a 7th term with 63% of the vote over John T. Dempsey.  Vote results: 71,787 – 42,738.