John Conyers

Our Nation's economic future depends on the ability of inventors to innovate and create, while at the same time being able to efficiently and effectively protect their products.

Congress must continue to ensure that we promote policies that will provide for a strong patent system.

Certainly, it is appropriate that we conduct regular oversight of the various programs, their administration, and their implementation, both because of the amount of funding involved and because of the important role they play in helping…

Clearly, this program works, and we must continue to support it.

Grant funding also helps provide some measure of assistance to crime victims who need and deserve help after being harmed.

This becomes an incredibly important hearing, which I hope this Subcommittee and its leaders will continue to press on even after this hearing.

The New York Times indicated yesterday that officials across the government receive special waivers to disregard ethics rules.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is an important hearing, and I would like to begin by asking whoever talked about the Flint water crisis, or wants to talk about it, or deal with the situation.

I have co-sponsored H.R. 371, the 'Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act', to require the President and Vice President to disclose and divest any potential financial conflict of interest.

Today's oversight hearing concerns the work of Civil, Environment, and Natural Resources and Tax Divisions along with the U.S. Trustee Program.

So, this had gone on before the present administration?

What explains the dearth of the prosecutions of those involved in these fraudulent activities?

I thank the gentlewoman and congratulate her on this very important amendment. This amendment creates alternative sentencing specifically for teenagers who participate in sexting and could, as a result of this bill and the application of…

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), the ranking member on the prime subcommittee on the House Judiciary Committee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Frankel).

It's time for a thorough investigation into Sessions.

I have no further requests for time, and I am pleased to make my closing remarks. Mr. Speaker, the Child Protection Improvements Act is a reasonable, bipartisan piece of legislation intended to protect our children and vulnerable adults…

I want to thank my colleague from Michigan (Mr. Bishop) for his contribution. I yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from California (Mr. Schiff), the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee and the author of the bill.

I commend the gentlewoman for her consistent understanding and explaining why mass incarceration is at the base of all of the debate that is going on. I am hoping that more and more people who listen to these discussions that we have here…

It is now my pleasure to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee), who is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations in the House Judiciary…

As usual, we are indebted to the gentleman from Virginia, who, for years, was the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations in the Judiciary Committee and still carries with him the…

It is my pleasure to yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

It is my pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), a distinguished former member of the Judiciary Committee.

I am pleased to yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler). {time} 1515

If we do not do anything more today with you four, to me the most important thing is that you take back a message that there are people like myself who have been working in different capacities long before I came to Congress in race…