John Conyers: “May I respond to my colleague on the Committee on the Judiciary by saying that there are relatively rare instances where…”

“May I respond to my colleague on the Committee on the Judiciary by saying that there are relatively rare instances where a defense counsel is paid on a contingency basis except that the way that they are paid is contingent upon an outcome as well. So in the larger sense, I want to just make sure that we have everybody wearing the same restriction, to the extent that that is possible. By the way, I want to commend the gentleman, I understand that civil rights litigation is excluded from this provision. I think that is a very thoughtful provision. I would hope that the gentleman would accept this perfecting amendment.”