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 September 28, 2016, House floor debate on the President’s veto of S. 2040, the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States constituted the deadliest foreign attack on American soil in…
