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 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 January 11, 2017, House floor debate on H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017. I rise in opposition, of course, to H.R. 5, the so-called Regulatory Accountability Act. Under the guise of improving the regulatory process, H.R. 5…