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 U.S. Representative John Dingell from 1958 to 1961 and a Referee for the Michigan Women’s Compensation Department from 1961 to 1963. He serves on the Judiciary Committee, where he is the Ranking Minority Member. The following statement is from the House floor debate of October 9, 1998, on the conference report on H.R. 3150, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998. Were it not for the gentleman from New York [Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D)], this bill,…
