John Conyers

Under Federal regulations and according to all available precedent, the appointment of special counsel is reserved for extraordinary circumstances.

Most of your progress, or much of it, is going to be obstructed by the appropriation processes in the legislative body.

H.R. 3349, the Innovation Protection Act. It's bipartisan legislation that establishes a permanent statutory funding mechanism for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The current funding mechanism has failed the patent system by allowing an estimated billion dollars in fees over the last two decades to be diverted to other agencies

The health of our intellectual property system is integral to the health of our nation's economy.

Would you discuss, Director Rodriguez, the sheer numbers that we are talking about?

That determination is what democracy is all about.

Youngsters with valid claims should have a speedier way to have that determined.

We have too few judges, too few asylum officers.

The President isn't enforcing immigration law.

I think the balanced budget amendment is still no better an idea than when Newt Gingrich brought it to our attention in 1994 in the Contract with America.

It is not the case that benefits have to be cut. Taxes could be increased.

Social Security taxes could be covered and not cut by merely raising the Social Security tax.

I oppose the concept of a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

The balanced budget amendment was not a good idea when it was included in the Contract with America in 1994, and it is still not a good idea today, 20 years later.

It seems to me like there is an under-prosecution. Normally, I come to the Committee complaining about overcriminalization.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo).

It is my pleasure now to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Judy Chu, a distinguished member of the House Judiciary Committee.

I am pleased now to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California, Ms. Zoe Lofgren, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee.

I believe that we should work to ensure that the copyright system provides adequate incentives and fairly compensates its creators.

I think this over-criminalization panel is one of the most important in the House Judiciary Committee.

The increase in unaccompanied children apprehended along our southwest border in recent years is evidence of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in our region.

I couldn't more strongly disagree with a misleading title such as this and supplanted by the arguments just presented.

The number of children we are seeing is sure to test our resolve with respect to the rule of law and our obligation to protect people fleeing persecution.

The dramatic flow of children across our southwest borders is a symptom of the real humanitarian crisis that's going on every day in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.