John Conyers

I beg my colleagues to support the Slaughter amendment and not discriminate against women.

Mr. Chairman, we have a difficulty here. We have passed the Chrysler amendment that enhanced the penalties for crimes against children and adults. We passed the Frost provision that increased penalties for sex offenses against children…

I will help the gentleman along the way. Now I will go to a quote of the gentleman's, and I am not picking on the gentleman. He is just my chairman on the wrong side of an important bill. When the issue came up during the hearings the…

During the 40 years that we claim that Democrats were running wild, we had Presidents Nixon, Bush, Eisenhower, Ford, and Reagan. We had Republican majorities in the Senate. In many years, in some of those years, we had Republicans with…

Then does the gentleman know that in those two States, that the requirement of supermajority does not apply to sales tax, which is the principal means of raising revenue in those two States?

Mr. Speaker, is the gentleman aware that in his charts where he indicates the supermajority of States, he includes California and Florida?

Mr. Speaker, I do not know where my friend the distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee [Mr. Barr] was yesterday, but the Fraternal Order of Police were here again to beg us not to repeal this ban. The International Association of…

That is the kind of rhetoric Members are going to get all day. We are going to constantly get the baseball bat analogy and a lot of other silliness, when the fact of the matter is that this list was shortened because of the people that…

Mr. Chairman, briefly, this amendment would extend the temporary program and allow foreign nurses into the United States for another six months. Case closed. I mean, we need more foreign nurses coming into the United States for longer…

More sneaking reservations continue to crop up. Let me call the attention of the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Goodlatte] to the fact that the growers like this idea. If the gentleman had only contacted the National Council of Loraza that…

I will tell the gentleman, there is another little nervous provision in here from my point of view. The certification of the workers goes from the Department of Labor to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Does that raise a red…

I appreciate that. I have heard this kind of argument that we know what is best for the workers. They do not want this. Their organizations that support them do not want it. But really if they need it, they would be happy to have it.

I understand. Now, why did the gentleman not offer this amendment in the first place, instead of taking us through the voluntary charade?

Suicide bombers do not care about the Conyers provision or the Hyde provision. Suicide bombers are not afraid of habeas corpus, sir. They have no concern. The problem is that these are madmen who do not obey or care about laws. The reason…

I begin by throwing away my Chairman Hyde's remarks of yesterday. He did not mean it. It was a moment of passion. He was maybe even ticked off, as we say. He said, ``With the Barr amendment, this is not an antiterrorism bill.'' On…

The idea of us now going back into habeas, the gentleman from North Carolina has just reminded us that we have already passed a habeas bill overwhelmingly.

Now, let us figure out how many times in the Federal jurisdiction that the gentleman can remember there have been multiple killings or multiple attempted killings in which the gentleman's provision, if it became law, would have…

May I say, my colleague from New York is always temperate in his remarks and is thoughtful in analyzing the contributions or problems that other organizations raise that lobby us all the time. I just think that this would strike a blow at…

Would the gentleman be very greatly disappointed in the legislative product that is on the floor, which is antiterrorism, if his measure happened to not succeed?

Mr. Chairman, let me say this, sir, is there not something redeeming about us passing legislation on its own bottom, since more people want this, since the gentleman has as many Attorney Generals, and then throw in Dan Lundgren on top of…

Mr. Chairman, the reason Attorney Generals Levy, Richardson, Katzenbach, and Civiletti have explained they tried hard to explain that what the Members are trying to do is unconstitutional. I know you want to fry them as soon as you can, I…

I thank the gentleman for describing what my tone ought to be for the victims' families. However, I know victims' families that oppose the death penalty. They do not want them executed in 10 years or 2 years or 2 days, because they happen…

I want to point out to my good friend from Missouri that they may not have invented laser sighting devices when he was a prosecutor.

Does he know that the Islamic Jihad would be not denominated a terrorist organization under his provision? Does he understand that?

Mr. Chairman, I am not quite sure where the gentleman whose amendment this is is coming from because of his very strong prosecutorial and law enforcement background, and it leaves me confused that his amendment does not stop the FBI from…