John Conyers: “I will be happy to report that to the predecessor chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from…”

“I will be happy to report that to the predecessor chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde). He will be happy to know that you do not feel it does and that a whole group of Senators, not to mention a fairly substantial number of Members of the House, all think that it does, and to think that by running an end-run around this provision with an arcane debt farmers provision, it is not going to work. Now, for my friend, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Smith), who has served with great distinction in the Congress, I will be happy to let his farmers know that everything is okay, that the provision has expired; but somehow he can get into court, or somebody, and they can just continue on, that with the judges, even though the provision has no effect, that the farmers are okay. I am sure they will be very comforted to hear that.”