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
The most secretive administration in history continues to stonewall the American public with non-answers to vital questions about their most important civil liberties and personal freedoms,
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.
For a long time people were a little bit afraid of Rosa Parks because she had created this whole new modern civil rights movement,
When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
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.
The bill does nothing to target the one percent of gun dealers who are responsible for selling nearly half of the guns traced to crime, ... It does nothing to plug the NRA-sponsored loopholes that, among other things, allows criminals to get out of jail and get their guns back.
The administration's continued defiance of constitutional safeguards seems to have no end in sight, ... This decision decimates the Fourth Amendment.
I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
I'm the one that's been driving this thing, man,
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.
They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.
While we all support First Amendment Rights, we simply cannot countenance statements and shows that are replete with racism, stereotyping, and profiling.
bottle it and take it around the country.
Watergate involved a wholesale corruption of government, ... This matter involves the concealing of a private affair in which the majority of facts are already known.