John Conyers actually said...

Speaker Pelosi always speaks of what Dr. Martin Luther King spoke about, and that is the fierce urgency of now.

Conyers highlights the importance of urgency in passing legislation.

01/21/2009

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this legislation; this provisional draft is hardly a way for us to start an important hearing like this.