John Conyers

Mr. CONYERS

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Baldacci). (Mr. BALDACCI asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, once again the exigencies of time have required me to apologize in advance to my colleagues because I am now going to have to limit all of them to 1 minute. I recognize my friends that have been waiting so long. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Weygand). (Mr. WEYGAND asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Farr.) (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Clayton).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I profoundly apologize to those of my colleagues on this side of the aisle who have been waiting so very long to be recognized. We have the exigencies of the evening. We have still a lot of Members, and our time is running shorter. I am going to have to reduce to 1\1/2\ minutes many of my colleagues whom I had intended to give a much larger amount of time. I apologize for it. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin). (Mr. CARDIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\3/4\ minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Olver). (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\3/4\ minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Evans).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter). (Ms. SLAUGHTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, if I might, the requests on our side are so numerous, we still have over 40, I want to read the names of my colleagues, and, with apologies to some of the Members who have been waiting all morning, I would like to indicate that the next Members that will be recognized on this side of the aisle are Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Filner, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Klink, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. Hastings, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Kucinich and Ms. Pelosi. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Yates). (Mr. YATES asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks, and include extraneous material.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey), a ranking Member of the House. (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Jackson). (Mr. JACKSON of Illinois asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek), who has waited patiently for her turn. (Mrs. MEEK of Florida asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ortiz). (Mr. ORTIZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Barr) announced a moment ago that the perjury trap is a legal impossibility. I refer him to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which said in 1991 that a perjury trap is created ``. . . when the government calls a witness to testify for the primary purpose of obtaining testimony from him in order to prosecute him later for perjury.'' Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute and 40 seconds to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Eshoo). (Ms. ESHOO asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green). (Mr. GREEN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Sawyer). (Mr. SAWYER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Pickett). (Mr. PICKETT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sisisky). (Mr. SISISKY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, that is absolutely correct, and it does not contradict what I corrected the gentleman about.

Mr. CONYERS. Yes, Mr. Speaker, absolutely true.

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Could I point out to my friend, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Canady), who took exception to why the income tax charge was not brought against Mr. Nixon in 1974, if he would read our report of the minority at page 10, he would learn that it was not for lack of evidence, it was because we determined that this was not a high crime or misdemeanor. And we were joined by Republican Lawrence Hogan, Maryland, Wiley Mayne, Republican--Iowa, and others.

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Woolsey), and I would ask her to yield to me.

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind). (Mr. KIND asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)