Honorable John Conyers
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 served as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative John Dingell (MI-D) from 1958 to 1961, as a practicing attorney from 1959 to 1961, and as a Referee for the Michigan Workmen’s Compensation Department from 1961 to 1963. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee. The following is from the March 22, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 1433, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007.This is an important moment in American history. We must now act to discontinue…
