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John Conyers was a prominent American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1965 until 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and played a significant role in advocating for civil rights and social justice throughout his career. Conyers was known for his commitment to issues such as healthcare, education, and labor rights, and he introduced legislation aimed at improving the lives of his constituents and marginalized communities across the nation.
From 559,000 to 314,000, and that is just one of the automobile corporations; they are all contracting. And most of the Fortune 500 companies are contracting their workforce. So how do we end up thinking that this is very important because…
I have figured this out now. This has been confusing me, why this is a high-tech boondoggle. That is what this is. Waive the rules so the high-tech people can run wild. The gentleman from Utah is exempt from this. They do not have many…
The gentleman is very kind. I just want to remind the gentleman, it is his amendment, but it not only affects managers, it affects every employee in the INS, everyone.
Mr. Chairman, I have not been surprised by many amendments before, but here is an amendment that proposes to set aside the civil service laws as applied to hiring people at INS, and to set aside civil service law as it applies to their…
I also wanted to raise the memory of his wife, Loret Ruppe, who was a former head of the Peace Corps and an Ambassador to Norway as well. I do not think it has ever been done before, but if ever there was a case for naming this Federal…
I think they are probably in the same condition today that they were yesterday, which is overworked; and I would like to use the gentleman's solution, which is that we get more judges into the judicial system. I think it is 70-something…
Just answer this one, please. Are you aware or are you not? You are not. Then I suggest you look at section 1715, and you will see that this request that you are making, as one-sided as it is, is already in the bill that I guess you are…
I know Enron is not a nice word to bring up on the floor with our conservative friends. I raise the name Enron reluctantly, because it is offensive to some of our colleagues. But several of the employees in the Enron case, if they were…
Mr. Chairman, for the benefit of my distinguished chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), who referred to the infamous airline cases where the plaintiffs were given airline coupons, and he illustrates this as really…
I must confess, as I return to my seat, I am not sure if we should be expanding the war to Iraq.
I guess that is not very ambiguous, is it? And then he went on to explain something that could be troublesome: we are not at war with Iraq, but we are at war with Saddam Hussein. Well, that introduces a new concept. I am only on the…
I want to just throw this out because I may not be correct; but is this measure, H.J. Resolution 75, a way of us expanding the war to Iraq? I assume the answer is yes.
I would like the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson) to know that the Committee on the Judiciary made a great pitch to increase the funding for Customs. It was blocked by the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means sitting…
I would like to make it clear, Members of the House, that I am very proud of the results that have come out with reference to money laundering because we dropped the administration proposal that would have eliminated due process safeguards…
I am happy about this great coordination between staffs, but I want a conference, and staffs do not control conferences. Let us look at where we find ourselves.
I think the subcommittee chairman is of good heart and great cheer and wonderful spirit, and I think the Frank amendment to this, notwithstanding what the President wished and wanted earlier on, maybe if we went back to the President, he…
Reclaiming my time, we can authorize it ourselves. Do we not have at least that much power? I thought we could do that. Who is this supreme authorizing body in Washington, D.C., that I do not know much about?
Has the gentleman from New York heard of Agent Orange in Vietnam and the aftereffects?
I deplore desecration of the flag in any form, but I am strongly opposed to this resolution because it goes against the ideals and elevates a symbol of freedom over freedom itself. I would like unanimous consent to say that for everybody…
When the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), subcommittee chairman, hits a nerve, he said how long. That is what we have been saying in the civil rights movement for a long time, Madam Speaker. How long? How long will it take? Well…
Mr. Speaker, apparently, Members of the Congress now all very simplistically refute James Madison. The gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Hart), the previous speaker, a very important and valuable member of the Committee on the Judiciary…
I support the bill. It has been described very adequately by the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. I might remind our colleagues that we passed the bill by voice vote twice under suspension of the rules. It is an important…
The bill would give many creditors, including credit card companies, finance companies, auto lenders and others, greater claims to a debtor's limited resources than they have under current law. This would intensify the competition for…
As more and more Members begin to examine this, I think the awesome power of the credit lobby is becoming very, very clear. We are making a bill that makes bankruptcy worse. So for the chairman of the subcommittee to be telling us that…
I could give the gentleman the answer as well, but the question is, is this bill before us merely a vehicle to enact the bankruptcy provisions?
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