John Conyers: “As my ranking member and friend knows, we are trying to construct an environment that we can talk about this matter…”

“As my ranking member and friend knows, we are trying to construct an environment that we can talk about this matter among ourselves and that there needs to be a national dialogue around the country. I have talked with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) about it, to which he has agreed. I have talked with the senior Senators from Delaware, North Dakota, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Rahall), and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey). Here is what Martin Luther King said, ``We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.''”