House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement after the Department of Justice released a report that cites the Missouri Ferguson Police Department engaged in a systemic and broad pattern of racially biased enforcement, including the use of unreasonable force against African-Americans: “In verifying longstanding community complaints, the DOJ Fer... Read more »
Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr. “ISIL in America: Domestic Terror and Radicalization” House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:00am Like you, Mr. Chairman, I am deeply concerned about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. “ISIL” is a grave regional threat. Operating from Anbar province in western Iraq, it has seized terri... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E. Serrano, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement in support of the District of Columbia’s legal authorit... Read more »
Statement of Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. Hearing on: The Unconstitutionality of Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration Committee on the Judiciary Wednesday February 25, 2015 2141 Rayburn Building In three days, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funds. While tens of thousands of federal government workers could be furloughed, around 200,000 workers will be forced to c... Read more »
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), today introduced the Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implem... Read more »
U.S. Representatives John Conyers, Jr.(D-Mich.), Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Member on the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, delivered the following statement today after a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security immigration directives issued in November 2014. “While we are d... Read more »
Today, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law hearing consumer protection and mortgage lending settlements, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. issued the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery: “The stated purpose of today’s hearing is to determine whether there has been a misuse of mortgage settlement funds by the Administration for i... Read more »
Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Ranking Member for the Hearing “Consumers Shortchanged? Oversight of the Justice Department's Mortgage Lending Settlements” Before the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Thursday, February 12, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The stated purpose of today’s hearing is to determine whether there has been a... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) reintroduced the bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015. The legislation aims to uphold the most vital principles of the historic law, which was first enacted 50 years ago. Reps. Conyers and ... Read more »
