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November 6, 2017

Last week, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging him to hold hearings on gun violence in America.

Issues: Crime

November 2, 2017

U.S. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), along with U.S. Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), today submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to reconsider and overturn a 25 year-old case determining whether states can require out-of-state businesses like online vendors to collect and remit state sales and use taxes.


October 26, 2017

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Oversight of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security


October 25, 2017

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during the debate of H.R. 469 the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017.


October 24, 2017

H.R. 732, the "Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017," would prohibit the federal government from entering into or enforcing any settlement agreement requiring donations to remediate harms that are not "directly and proximately" caused by a wrongdoer's unlawful conduct.

I oppose H.R. 732 for several reasons.


October 24, 2017
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee's markup of H.R. 4092 the Agricultural Guestworker Act.

H.R. 4092, the "Agricultural Guestworker Act," is yet the latest attempt by the Majority to address one aspect of our Nation's broken immigration system. And, on at least two prior occasions, our Committee has considered previous iterations of this legislation.

Issues: Immigration

October 24, 2017

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to an announcement that Chairmen Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte are opening a partisan Republican investigation into decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2016:


October 13, 2017

WATCH IT HERE

I am pleased to join my colleague, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, in sponsoring this important event.

Today's Forum brings together some of the Nation's leading experts from the medical research and athletic communities to review the causes, effects, and treatments of concussions and other head trauma.


October 12, 2017

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks during the House Judiciary Committee's markup of H.R. 2228, the "Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017"