John Conyers

I am not impugning any of your motives or what you did during the course of this particular case, but what I am suggesting is the authority ought to be moved from prosecutor's offices--I disagree with Mr. Rosenberg--to the judiciary.

I appreciate the opportunity to make this statement, and I hope that all the past corporate or political papers that are brought forth by Mr. King will be after Hayes-Tilden because that way we can rely on you for experience.

The most effective way to fix our broken health-care system would look like Medicare, but improved and expanded to cover everyone.

Since I know the President and the Attorney General better than anybody in this room, would you explain to me why the President is so ambivalent and why the Attorney General didn't send anyone to this hearing?

He acknowledged that the privilege is overbroad and overused, and that he plans to embrace several principles of reform.

I am for state secrets. There are some secrets that we've got to keep away from citizens and Congress people and everybody else--bloggers.

I just wonder what you eight and Mel Watt and Maxine Waters respond, how would you all respond to this chronological fix that I think we are in.

We are holding them because they are combatants in the traditional definition of combatants and under the rules of war, you have the right to hold them until the cessation of hostilities.

It is time to make real change in our health care system, a change that works, a change that is fair and affordable and serves all Americans.

Private health insurance companies make their money by avoiding risk, not managing it.

Health reform has been a priority of the American public for decades, and precisely because the private marketplace doesn't work in the health insurance field today.

Which would include the subsidies that they are already enjoying.

I was moved by the Scott recommendation that we come up with a national strategy for dealing with papers.

This democracy will not survive without newspapers and journalism. It won't.

I am glad to know that. I am not, but I think I am going to get more familiar with them.

What we are talking about here is democracy. We want the people to be able to get information.

This is an important issue. And what we will begin to look at, as this examination of what to do with newspapers in crisis continues, is the exact nature of the crisis.

Since the founding of our country, newspapers have been a cornerstone of our democracy.

Means tests indiscriminately blocking debtors from relief without successfully weeding out abuse.

Over-aggressive marketing, exorbitant penalty fees and interest rates, that is a scandal in itself.

Increased filing fees that put bankruptcies out of reach for the very people that might need it.

One of the things that we are going to look at is credit card practices that have pushed people to the brink of bankruptcy, aggressive marketing to financially vulnerable borrowers.

But I think what there is disagreement about is having noted that we all agree--or I think all of us do agree on that--whether it is appropriate to round up everybody in sight because of their race, which it sounds like is happening in…

Clearly--well, I won't say clearly, but I think there is pretty unanimous agreement that individuals who have been convicted of a serious crime and who are not U.S. citizens should be deported, apprehended and deported, as provided for in…

The truth of the matter is, we don't have an anti--the second panel is coming up, so we will have Professor Harris here.