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John Conyers: “I will help the gentleman along the way. Now I will go to a quote of the gentleman's, and I am not picking on the…”

On the recordApril 18, 1996
I will help the gentleman along the way. Now I will go to a quote of the gentleman's, and I am not picking on the gentleman. He is just my chairman on the wrong side of an important bill. When the issue came up during the hearings the gentleman from Illinois said: ``I don't really see the wisdom of revisiting the whole habeas argument again in this committee on this bill.'' Now it is the keystone of the antiterrorist legislation. I know the gentleman does not remember that either.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan
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Discussing the importance of habeas corpus in antiterrorist legislation.

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