John Conyers

I mean, Lamar Smith had that rule, Henry Hyde had that rule, Jim Sensenbrenner had that rule, and now you are not sure.

But you agree with the principle that we do not have bills of the Judiciary Committee on the floor at the same time the Subcommittees are holding hearings.

As the Chair knows, the PATRIOT Act is on the floor, the first thing up.

The only people that I can prove are urging bankruptcy is Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House; and Jeb Bush, the former Governor from Florida.

Well, look, there are so many conservatives that agree with my position of going slow that I am re-examining my own position.

Now, before bankruptcy, there could be bailout.

Neither should Congress permit States to file bankruptcy. Though States would have powerful tools in bankruptcy, like the power to break pension contracts with unions, States are sovereign entities and must handle their financial problems…

I would like to suggest that there is at least one point of accord. There may be others between the members of the Judiciary Committee in the consideration of the matter before us. Now I return to the assertion that the health care bill…

I frequently cite them as a credible source myself; but would the chairman of the committee explain how we insure millions more people and then have fewer and fewer jobs? Did the CBO explain anything about this job loss and about how the…

Dear friends, under the REINS Act we would be violating the separation of powers doctrine... the REINS Act would be constitutionally infirm and that the REINS Act would be a terrible thing for us to do if you are serious about jobs.

People don't pay user fees for patents as a gift to the society. They're making an investment to get a property right.

Instead of the funds that are paid to the PTO going directly to the PTO... it goes back to the Appropriations Committee.

Somewhere in the appropriations process the funds that are paid into the Patent and Trademark Office never get back to the Patent and Trademark Office.

The 1.75 trillion figure is a gaudy number that was sure to catch the ear of the media and the general public.

It's easy to see why the anti-regulatory critics have seized on the Crain and Crain Report and its findings.

But let's face it. Out of the first hearing on this subject and even this one, would it be unfair for impartial witnesses to come to the conclusion that a number of us here on the Committee have that E-Verify just isn't right now ready for…

Enforcement only will not diminish the demand for willing workers, but merely push the undocumented further into the shadows.

Enforcement without reform will promote a race to the bottom that can only hurt the American worker in the end.

Enforcement, yes, but that we have got to also talk about the real solutions of reform.

I thank you very much. My congratulations. I could observe that the view isn't quite as good from this end as it used to be when we were on the other side, but I'll get use to it again.

So you think this is an appropriate title of a bill then, No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act, because women in service may be able or might be able to get an abortion?

Did he ask to testify?

What he has got against the Planned Parenthood people I have yet to discover.

The power to tax is the power to destroy and here the taxing power is being used quite deliberately to destroy the right of every American to make private health care decisions free from government interference.

It seems that many Republicans believe in freedom, provided no one uses that freedom in a way they find objectionable.