Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
United States Representative, Michigan, Democrat
Representative Conyers, of the Fourteenth District of Michigan, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1964. He was a Legislative Assistant to Representative John Dingell (MI-D) from 1958 to 1961 and a Referee for the Michigan Workmen’s Compensation Department from 1961 to 1963. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Judiciary Committee. The following is from the House floor debate of June 18, 1999, on the Conyers amendment to H.R. 2122, the Mandatory Gun Background Check Act. The Conyers amendment sought to extend Brady bill background checks to gun shows, regulate firearms transfers at gun shows,…
