John Conyers actually said...

"Yet today's hearing--like the hearing we held on this very same topic just 3 months ago--is being held in the absence of any evidence of such failure."

"an unruly presence in the hearing room does not aid your cause in any way, my friends."

"I would strenuously urge anybody else in the room that wants to display signs to only get evicted, that it is not helping your views on it."

"To begin with, let's acknowledge what today's hearing is really about: it is yet another attempt by the Majority to prevent the President's implementation of duly enacted legislative initiatives that ..."