John Conyers

I hate to say this in this day and age, but immigrant bashing is a pretty popular sport, unfortunately, in some areas.

Now Hispanic Americans are even more frequently being targeted.

In a true spirit of bipartisanship, I would like to remind the Committee that President George W. Bush, in his first Inaugural Address, spoke very strongly against racial profiling as an unsatisfactory police technique.

We have had a nomination of Lou DeBaca, Esq., to be Ambassador at Large for Human Trafficking in the State Department.

I want to commend all of our leaders that have pulled together a new bill that makes more sense.

This is a critical test of what the Congress believes, in terms of helping out these first responders and people who, through no fault of their own, have been put in this incredible health situation.

He got a little too close to Wall Street for my two cents, but Wall Street was his district.

I wanted to compliment Attorney Luna for his opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing which is in his statement.

If it is not fair, I don't think anybody objectively knowing that it is not fair...

There are those that have certain opinions, for example, about the death penalty.

I do believe, when you take a look at the Byrne Grant and you took a look at the Justice Assistance Grant...

I think it would help those who are in this part of the practice of law in all the other states as well.

What I am suggesting is that we not have 49 other hearings, but that we----

Lack of proper funding for indigent defense systems has created a crisis.

States are struggling to meet this constitutional mandate.

The right of a criminal defendant to legal counsel is one of the hallmarks of our Constitution.

It is important and a delicate matter.

I have been favorably impacting on Judge Gohmert during the course of our careers here on the Judiciary Committee.

None of the arguments supporting Feres have ever struck me as persuasive.

It is too late to expect that the Supreme Court will overrule Feres. The restoration of the rights conferred on service members by the Federal Tort Claims Act can only come from Congress.

Feres was wrongly decided. The Federal Tort Claims Act does not exclude service members from its coverage.

Nobody in the service can be sued--nobody--whether you lost a limb or anything else.

There is a consensus that the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in the 1980s was particularly effective in confronting the historical record.

Reconciliation and justice can only come after the truth is known, and as commissions of inquiry have played important roles in the United States and abroad.

There is additional history involving other populations that were also mistreated during World War II that have not been sufficiently examined.