John Conyers
John Conyers
John James Conyers, Jr.is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district. He has been a member of Congress since 1965 and is currently its longest-serving current member, making him the Dean of the House of Representatives. The district includes the western half of Detroit, as well as River Rouge, Ecorse, Redford Township, Dearborn Heights, Highland Park, Westland, Garden City, Inkster, Wayne, and Romulus. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 May 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that, ... She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today.
Sunsets were a step in the right direction, but they don't address the underlying problem. They are not a solution for bad law. We should be fixing the problems of the Patriot Act. Sunsets will be of no relief to those who have their constitutional rights violated in the next four years.
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.
the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Americans. It means it's a national honor.
For a long time people were a little bit afraid of Rosa Parks because she had created this whole new modern civil rights movement,
We do not believe that a soft money ban will cripple minority voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Some have said it's unconstitutional on its face, ... Let me be more polite: We're troubled; we're deeply troubled.
Without a date certain, this proceeding could turn into a yearlong, two years, politicized fishing expedition of enormous expense,
The president has to answer this. I don't think we can laugh at the London Times and British intelligence. We need to know.
Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.
to understand how you could have permitted an individual with such views to broadcast such a program on your network, and learn what you intend to do to respond to this problem.
We are concerned that just as survivors of Hurricane Katrina are beginning to rebuild their lives, the new bankruptcy law will result in a further and unintended financial whammy,