happy birthday, harry belafonte. i love you, america loves you, and the entire world will always love and admire your artistic genius, your steadfast devotion to causes of justice, peace, and your enduring spirit to transform both our country and the world so it is a more compassionate, soulful, and just planet. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman yield back? mr. conyers: i'm going to yield at this time to the gentlelady from texas, ms. sheila jackson lee, as much time as she may consume. ms. jackson lee: i want to thank the gentleman from detroit and with his own august history in the civil rights movement. as they say he is no short man when it comes to the work that he has done more than one that we have known him for and thank him for in the hiring of rosa parks and the friendship of dr. martin luther king, john conyers has proceeded with his legislative history from the time of his embracing of the 1965 voting rights act as an ongoing where we have joined on that committee dealing with issues of police b

like harry belafonte and other entertainers who marched for civil rights, tyrese is also lending hisgle here. thank you both for being here tonight. why has labor groups joined in this fight against immigration and voter i.d. laws this weekend put so much into this effort? >> reverend sharpton, the truth is that we're all connected. and when we look at what's happening across this country, workers, immigrants and those who believe we should have a right to vote. we have a common enemy. workers in this country have been under attack, particularly in the last year. they've tried to take away their right to have a voice in the workplace. to strip them of collective bargaining. the same people who are pushing the anti-worker legislation and trying to prevent workers from having a voice in the workplace are the very same people that are trying to stop the poor, people of color, the elderly and the youth from being able to have a voice in the voting booth. and they are the very same ones pushing this draconian anti-immigration legislation instead of trying to work for real comprehensive im

. >> singer, actor, and activist harry belafonte travels to the most violent places in the world.the resisters to the violence. >> with his inspirational words belafonte gives each inmate a personal challenge. >> your failure is my failure. your success is my success. somewhere where you go, you carry a responsibility and the destiny of my children and my children's children and their friends and their community. and they can either look at you as someone as a group to be shunned or they can look at you as an example of how to take the worst cards dealt in life and turn the deck around and make it your game and play a winning hand every time out. [ applause ] >> get the community's focus on something it can have faith in, and for that institution to then move to the outside world and says you must look in a very different way at how the prison population is being treated. i think it's a great opportunity. >>> next on "lockup" -- inmates in the l.a. county jail get back their freedom. this is delicious okay... is this where we're at now? we just eat whatever tastes good? like these

aarp likes to tout harry belafonte.is so far to the left he makes president obama look conservative. pat boone likes to tout his friendship with ronald reagan. aarp -- the association against retired persons they say they are a listening tour, but did date -- did they listen to the voices of millions of lives? now, they did not care if they turned their hearing aids off. if they turn their backs on us. what their reward was was an obama-care waiver. i am here to demand you give america's seniors, all americans, a life time waiver from obama-care. [applause] look, we know that is not going to happen, so we are taking matters into our own hands. the people are speaking loud and clear. thank you for your efforts. obama-care is on life support. it is our job to pull the plug. it is bad medicine. it is hazardous to our health. you know, it is the biggest threat to our house that has ever been enacted. i have been here for 50 years. i would like to remind many of the seniors, two years ago 60 + predicted there would be a seni

aarp likes to tout harry belafonte. so far to the left he makes president obama look conservative. pat boone likes to tout his friendship with ronald reagan. aarp -- the association against retired persons they say they are a listening tour, but did date -- did they listen to the voices of millions of lives? now, they did not care if they turned their hearing aids off. if they turn their backs on us. what their reward was was an obama-care waiver. i am here to demand you give america's seniors, all americans, a life time waiver from obama-care. look, we know that is not going to happen, so we are taking matters into our own hands. the people are speaking loud and clear. thank you for your efforts. obama-care is on life support. it is our job to pull the plug. it is bad medicine. it is hazardous to our health. you know, it is the biggest threat to our house that has ever been enacted. i have been here for 50 years. i would like to remind many of the seniors, two years ago 60 + predicted there would be a senior citizen ts