Rep. John Conyers

Democrat  •  14th District, Michigan  •  23rd Term  •  Sworn In 1965
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 96%
  • Abstains: 12%

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10/15/09
RE: John Conyers

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., compared a witness the Obama administration sent to Capitol Hill to the witnesses dispatched by ...

Source: The Associated Press
10/15/09
RE: John Conyers

The House version of the PRA has been approved by the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who introduced the bill. ...

Source: Streaming Magazine
10/15/09
CAIR: Members of Congress Blast Claims That Muslim Interns are 'Spies'

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today issued the following statement in support of American Muslim congressional interns: "It ...

Source: Reuters
10/15/09
RE: John Conyers

Supporting comments by Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., were singled out for praise by CAIR. "I am appalled by this request ...

Source: WND.com
10/14/09
Letter: Politicians can't read their own bills

When House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers announced, "What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to ...

Source: Enterprise-Record
10/14/09
RE: John Conyers

... the “Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009,” sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., committee chairman. Sen. ...

Source: Search-Autoparts.com
10/14/09
Six Degrees of President Barack Obama

You aren't. The best they can do now is bury the truth in a thousand pages of legalese and then play dumb. REP. JOHN CONYERS, D-MICH. ...

Source: FOXNews
10/14/09
RE: John Conyers

“We want him to stand strong,” said Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat. In a conference call recently, Mr. Obama reminded CBC members that most of them ...

Source: FinalCall.com News
10/13/09
Harry Reid, Future Health Insurance Lobbyist

She should have directed John Conyers to hold hearings about Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, and the Justice Department Rove-directed attorneys. ...

Source: OpEdNews
10/13/09
Who's In, Who's Out: Live Nation Merger

... House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers and ranking member Lamar Smith are among those who have sought information through letters and hearings. Rep. ...

Source: National Journal (blog)
10/13/09
House consider limited repeal of McCarran-Ferguson Act

... the “Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009,” sponsored by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., committee chairman. Sen. ...

Source: Search-Autoparts.com
10/13/09
SOUTHGATE: Legislator will be guest speaker at next chamber luncheon

US Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-14th District) will be the featured speaker at the Southern Wayne Regional Chamber's Legislative Forum on Oct 26. ...

Source: Southgate News Herald
10/13/09
Watching ACORN Get Chopped Down

Back in March, Rep. John Conyers, the liberal congressman from Michigan who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, recommended that a hearing be held on ...

Source: The New American
10/13/09
AS I SEE IT: Will judges determine your health care needs?

Carper could well have been echoing the sentiments expressed to a National Press Club luncheon in July by House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., ...

Source: SuburbanJournals
10/13/09
RE: John Conyers

John Kerry, Congressmen Barney Frank and John Conyers, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and “The Wire” creator and ...

Source: NewsOK.com
10/13/09
Wrangle Over Rangel Shows Signs of Strain

Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan — the only other founding member still in the House — strongly defends Rangel. “It would take a lot for that ...

Source: CQPolitics.com
10/13/09
House Public Option Still Viable, Says House Committee on Aging & Health ...

29 at House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers' 80th birthday party, after the Senate Finance Committee had just rejected the Medicare-like public ...

Source: Reuters
10/12/09
He's No Dummy

John Kerry, Congressmen Barney Frank and John Conyers, Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken ...

Source: Pollstar
10/12/09
Why Hate Crimes Bill May Be Doomed

The House attempted yet again to move a perennial pet project of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers: making it a federal ...

Source: FOXNews
10/12/09
Racial Profiling or Good Police Work?

There was some hope that Congress would finally consider passing the Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act introduced by Michigan Democrat John Conyers in 1999 ...

Source: BlackNews.com (press release)
10/11/09
If PRA passes, everybody loses

... Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Conyers (D-MI) and Darrel Issa (R-CA) are looking out for their interests at the expense of local radio stations – both local ...

Source: Radio Business Report
10/10/09
Racial profiling or good police work?

There was some hope that Congress would finally consider passing the Traffic Stops Statistics Study Act introduced by Michigan Democrat John Conyers in 1999 ...

Source: The Daily Voice
10/10/09
RE: John Conyers

Born and raised in Delaware County, former 3-star Admiral Joe Sestak served in the Navy for 31 years and now serves as the Representative from the 7th ...

Source: Pottstown Herald
10/09/09
Round up hard-core, liberal politicians and send them to Alaska

Our politicians keep saying our 12th-graders can't read at the 6th-grade level but yet when I see Congressman John Conyers of Michigan on the news, ...

Source: The Bay City Times - MLive.com
10/09/09
ADL hails House passage of hate-crimes bill

...Leaders in the House of Representatives over the years who deserve recognition include: Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Jerry Nadler (D-NY). The support of Pr

Source: JTA
10/09/09
Thompson case just one more example

Lack of integrity is rampant from our top echelons down. Remember Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., cancelled a congressional probe into ACORN? And Rep. ...

Source: Montgomery Advertiser
10/08/09
Newt Gingrich: Democracy: The joke is on us

said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers, D-MI. The Democrats' insistence on not reading bills before they make them law brings to mind two ...

Source: Washington Examiner
10/08/09
RE: John Conyers

Others Michigan members of Congress signing the letter were John Conyers and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Detroit; Bart Stupak of Menominee; Dale Kildee of ...

Source: Detroit Free Press
10/08/09
House Panel To Consider Data-Sharing In Health Antitrust Bill

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., and DeGette introduced a bill last month that would remove the health and medical ...

Source: NASDAQ
10/08/09
RE: John Conyers

Oddly, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., whose judiciary committee produced the hate-crimes legislation in the first place, voted against the final defense bill. ...

Source: World Magazine

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