John Conyers

March 14, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - House Judiciary Committe Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) delivered the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today regarding H.R. 3773, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008:

Mr. Speaker, there are few rights that are more fundamental to our democracy than the right to privacy. And there are few responsibilities that are more important than the government protecting us from foreign threats.    » read more »

March 13, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers released the following statement in response to news that the House of Representatives is expected to move into closed session tonight to review information regarding the administration’s warrantless surveillance program:    » read more »

March 13, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement after review of the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) use of National Security Letters (NSL) and 215 orders in 2006, as well as subsequent corrective actions taken last year.

The reports are linked below.    » read more »

March 11, 2008 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes released the following statement in response to the Justice Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence statement on new proposed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) legislation:

“The administration, which has refused to even attend negotiation sessions between the House and the Senate, has now apparently launched another round of scare tactics and falsehoods.    » read more »

Vows to Enforce Subpoenas

February 29, 2008 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) reacted to the Justice Department's decision not to present contempt citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten to a grand jury, despite a statutory obligation to do so:    » read more »

February 28, 2008 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statement in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referring the committee's contempt citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeffrey Taylor:    » read more »

February 13, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee chairman testified before the House Committee on Rules in support of statutory contempt and civil litigating authority resolutions against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten. The full text of his statement is below:    » read more »

February 03, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) – Today, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) criticized President Bush’s budget for cutting critical funding for vital law enforcement programs. "This budget is harmful to the American people, law enforcement and our nation's priorities," said Conyers. "While spending lavishly on the war in Iraq, the president continues to shortchange the needs of our communities."    » read more »

January 30, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL) Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sánchez have called upon former Attorney General John Ashcroft to testify at the CAL Subcommittee hearing, “Deferred Prosecution: Should Corporate Settlement Agreements be without Guidelines.” The hearing will address the alarming growth of secret corporate monitoring contracts awarded in the settlement of corporate fraud cases.    » read more »

January 24, 2008 -- (Washington, DC) - The White House has agreed to provide the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees access to classified documents concerning the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. As applied to the Judiciary committee, ten Democratic members, nine Republican members, and staff with appropriate security clearance would be "read into" the program next week and have access to documents including legal memoranda about the program and communications with telephone companies. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) released the following statment:    » read more »

December 19, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 660, the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) introduced the bill earlier this year and considers it one of his most important legislative achievements. H.R. 660 passed the House by voice vote and it is now headed to the President's desk for signature. Conyers made the following remarks today on the House floor:    » read more »

December 19, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) gave the following statement at the Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee Hearing on "Enforcement of Federal Criminal Law to Protect Americans Working for U.S. Contractors in Iraq." Today, former KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones, testified that she was raped and held captive by her KBR/Halliburton colleagues while serving as a contractor in Iraq.    » read more »

December 17, 2007 -- (Washington, DC) - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey reiterating the Chairman's request to have a Department of Justice representative testify at Thursday's hearing on the "Applicability of Federal Criminal Laws to the Interrogation of Detainees."    » read more »

December 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today remarked on the resignation of John Tanner as Chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division.    » read more »

December 13, 2007 -- (Washington, DC)- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) introduced the "End Racial Profiling Act of 2007." Conyers and Feingold were joined by Reps. Danny Davis (D-IL) and Christopher Shays (R-CT). The bill seeks to make racial profiling illegal, creates grants to support the development of best practices to end it, and creates requirements for data collection.

Chairman Conyers made the following remarks at the press conference to introduce the bill:    » read more »