John Conyers

Mr. CONYERS

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant), the only former sheriff in the House. (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette). (Ms. DeGETTE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Hefner). (Mr. HEFNER 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 American Samoa (Mr. Faleomavaega). (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA 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 California (Mr. Farr). (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) (Mr. FARR of California addressed the House. His remarks will appear hereafter in the Extensions of Remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume 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, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Kind). (Mr. KIND 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 Illinois (Mr. Costello). (Mr. COSTELLO asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Hooley). (Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Kennelly). (Mrs. KENNELLY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Vento). (Mr. VENTO 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. Stenholm). (Mr. STENHOLM 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 Michigan (Mr. Dingell). (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Clement).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), then I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Clement), then I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis), our deputy whip of the House, if you please. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume 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 yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Tierney). (Mr. TIERNEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fattah).

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to continue with apologies to recognize my colleagues on this side for 20 seconds each: The son of our friend Harold Ford, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ford, Jr.), the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fattah), the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Tierney). Mr. Speaker, I yield 20 seconds to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ford).

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Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the debate on House Resolution 581 regarding proceeding with an impeachment inquiry be expanded to the time of 8 hours.

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Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott), my dear friend. (Mr. McDermott asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks, and to include extraneous matter.)

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen).

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Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to yield the balance of our time to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dave Bonior) to close debate on our side.

Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, to my Republican friends, sincerely, Gerald Ford has said that we must take the path back to dignity. I want that to weigh on the Members' hearts for this next hour, because more is at stake than the President's fate. ``Moving with dispatch,'' Gerald Ford said, ``the House Judiciary Committee should be able to conclude a preliminary inquiry into possible grounds for impeachment before the end of the year.'' I think that we can do it. Our resolution calls for it. I have talked incessantly in private meetings with the gentleman from Illinois (Chairman Hyde) toward this end, and I hope that all of us will commit ourselves to that goal. Mr. Speaker, I just want Members to know that in my view, the American people have a deep sense of right and wrong, of fairness and privacy. I believe that the Kenneth W. Starr investigation may have offended those sensibilities. Who are we in the Congress? What is it that we stand for? Do we want to have prosecutors with unlimited powers, accountable to no one, who will spend a million dollars investigating a person's sex life, is that the precedent we are setting, who then haul them before grand juries, every person that they have known of the opposite sex, every person that they had contact with, and then record and release videos to the public of the grand jury questioning the most private aspects of one's personal life? Please, I beg the Members not to denigrate this very important process in Article II, Section 4. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Barney Frank), a senior member of the Committee on the Judiciary.