John Conyers

If you have sufficient choices, the issues of net neutrality vanish because there is no incentive, no ability whatsoever, to engage in that kind of conduct.

That is why the former Chairman of this Committee, a Republican, and Zoe Lofgren from California and I, all three of us introduced a bipartisan piece of legislation going back to 2006 to strengthen antitrust law to address net neutrality.

I congratulate them on their good work. And I welcome all of our witnesses, especially the chairman of FCC himself, to join in this discussion this afternoon.

Whatever approach one uses to ensuring an Open Internet inaction is not an option.

We should be both true to fairness and the rights of victims to be made whole.

As a general matter, I am concerned about expanding mandatory minimums and reducing judicial discretion.

I'm concerned that placing mandatory minimum punishments into any legislation may produce unforeseen and unwanted results.

It is my hope that the hearing today will help refine the issues, provide a voice to child crime victims, and ultimately deliver restitution to those who most need it.

We need to address the importance of the ruling by the Supreme Court in Paroline.

This legislation will make this process less responsible, less professional and less accountable.

I'd like to describe what I think are three thoroughly flawed bills.

The Act offends federalism by undermining State laws in State courts.

When Congress considered the measure 10 years ago, I warned that it would simply benefit corporate wrongdoers to the detriment of large numbers of people who suffer great harm.

Although proponents of this legislation claimed in 2005 that the Act was necessary to curb forum shopping by plaintiffs, in reality this law has proved to be the ultimate tool for forum shopping by defendants.

I think you have set the pace for how it ought to be done.

Race, ethnicity, gender have not place in terms of policing. We treat everybody equally...

I want to commend the testimony we have heard here today from these gentlemen and it is, to me, very important that I compliment Sheriff Stanek...

The rise of the Islamic State is not an excuse for domestic law enforcement to stigmatize American Muslims.

I am deeply concerned about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, ISIL.

The United States Copyright Office plays a critical role in promoting and protecting our Nation's copyright system.

Inexplicably, the bankruptcy code excludes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the purpose of defining who may be a debtor under Chapter 9.

I want to find a solution to the problem, not keeping having hearings here where the four distinguished jurists who all know a lot about the law are not going to decide the case.

So my only point to you is, you are not going to deport 11 million people. This is a political case.

You see the parameters were dealing in. We are dealing in political parameters on what should be an issue about how it is we deal with an immigration system.

Religious freedom, of course, was one of the core principles upon which our Nation was founded.