John Conyers

I urge my friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do the same.

I ask Members to follow their conscience and they will serve the country.

I think actually it was September, Madame Congresswoman.

I believe that this--that this proceeding is really about--not about crime--I believe that it's about the government's ability to secure the---- Rep.

I think many of the members of this committee have.

I think it's a political trick definition--the definition, and I've told you before how I feel about the political character of this lawsuit.

I think that's true not only in Massachusetts, but in virtually every other state in the country, that if the chief executive is convicted of a felony, that they are automatically removed from office.

I asked staff to do that, and sometimes they forget.

I think, can only be described as a memorandum of law, possibly a brief--contains no facts--no facts in the case before us today.

I think law school tells us that such a statement would be inadmissible in a court as hearsay in prior consistent statements in any event.

I think that it's appropriate for the committee to be conducting a review.

I think that if you look at this from the perspective of a trial lawyer, in terms of how this would play out, I think this would be really an impossible case to develop.

I think that in terms of perjury, I do think that one has to look a bit about what the underlying events are.

I believe that the Justice Department got it right and Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz got it wrong.

I submit that a federal prosecutor ordinarily would not prosecute a case against a private citizen based on the facts set forth in the Starr referral.

I submit for the Record certain deliberations by the Committee on the Judiciary.

I asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.

He admitted that relationship, and the whole world saw his testimony on that point when the video tape of the grand jury testimony was played

Well, politically, I guess, I had anticipated that all that might be the subject of negotiation before the votes were taken

I must say I'm humbled to answer this, because on my left was the assistant attorney general from the Criminal Division when I was an assistant U

It is interesting to me because in my experience, persons who make such statements, when they become the subject or the object of investigation---- Rep

I have had cases where the case went in through an agent at the grand jury and a lot of the agent's testimony would be hearsay

The law has raised very, very high barriers against any citizen being convicted of a crime, the presumption of innocence

I say this with all due respect: only a foolish or inexperienced prosecutor would attempt to indict and convict someone based on hearsay grand jury testimony

Yes, the evidence in a perjury case requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant not only made a false statement but knew it was false at the time it was made