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(DETROIT) – Today, President Obama commuted the sentences of eight federal inmates serving lengthy time behind bars for nonviolent offenses related to crack cocaine under an older sentencing regime. This decision follows the implementation in 2011 of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, landmark criminal justice legislation that reduced mandatory minimum sentences for crack offenses and minimized the arbitrary disparity between crack and powder cocaine. Ranking member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr.
(DETROIT) – Today, Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Co-Chairs Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) joined Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), CPC member and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, to urge the president to take swift action on 46 recommendations made by a presidential taskforce to reform the surveillance program at the National Security Agency (NSA) to protect Americans' civil liberties:
(DETROIT) – Today, U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) responded to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon's ruling yesterday that the National Surveillance Agency's (NSA) bulk metadata collection program, which collects information on virtually all telephone calls in the United States, is likely unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Specifically, Judge Leon, who is an appointee of President George W.
Floor Statement of Rep. Melvin L. Watt (N.C.)
General Debate in Opposition
H.R. 3309, the "Innovation Act"
December 5, 2013
Floor Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
in Support of Conyers-Watt Substitute Amendment
H.R. 3309, the "Innovation Act"
December 5, 2013
On behalf of Representative Watt and myself, I am offering a substitute amendment that gives members an opportunity to vote for language that will actually address the identifiable abuses in the patent system.
Floor Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
H.R. 3309, the "Innovation Act"
December 5, 2013
Madam Speaker:
Statement of Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.
Hearing on: The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws
Committee on the Judiciary
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 10:00 AM
2141 Rayburn Building
(DETROIT) – Today, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, and Rep. Elijah E.
Today, U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte announced the Markup of H.R. 3309, the "Innovation Act," this Wednesday, November 20th. In announcing the Markup, Chairman Goodlatte released a Manager's Amendment making changes to H.R. 3309. In addition, this afternoon Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the "Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013" to curb patent abuse, without infringing the independence of the federal judiciary and harming small inventors. In response to these developments, U.S.