conyers: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to the manager's amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. conyers: thank you very much. must oppose t, i the manager's amendment because they do not significantly alter the underlying bill which will be making sweeping and unnecessary changes to patent litigation and encroach upon the independence of the federal judiciary. that does tion 6-d not address the substantive deficiencies in the bill. 6-d, by mandating u.s. law applies in determining the rights of intellectual property licensees directly contraconvenients the important principles that -- contraconvenients the important principles that pertain to chapter 15 of the bankruptcy code which deals with transitional -- transnational bankruptcies. congress intended the chapter 15 not mandate any one country's substantive law. substantive law should control. but section 6-d does exactly this and may encourage other countries to opt out of the cooperative insolvency system pa

was honored by a number of members of congress including john conyers and. allison and others. joins us from. amherst massachusetts tim for that we've got a problem with the video feed cameras weigh in too tight on you so we're just going take your audio from the first ball walk in the program. ok thanks tom i'm here if you will get the video but we're here yeah we got audio there you go thank you. thank you my just tell whoever's there if they can just pull the camera back i think that's that's the problem. that's not the problem ok never mind. so our guys are talking to each other so anyway let me start with you what first of all what got you into your e.r. . what got you what but got me to politics yes what got me in politics well i guess the honest answer would be my sixth grade done it seems a city is crazy school i was part of a group of at the time misfits who weren't cooperating during seventh area so we were corralled and take it into a sister paulette's room where she organized. does it work and part of the busy work we keep working on political campaigns we drew name

was honored by a number of members of congress including john conyers and. ellison and others. joins us from. amherst massachusetts tim for the we've got a problem with the video feed the cameras way into tight on you so we're just going take your audio for a minute but first of all walk in the program. take someone here if you look at the video that we're here because we got audio there you go thank you. thank you my just to tell whoever's there if they can just pull the camera back i think that's that's the problem. that's not the problem never mind. so our guys are talking to each other so anyway let me start with you what first of all what got you into your radar and what got you what brought me to politics is what got me in politics well i guess the honest answer would be my sixth grade done it seems to scream school i was part of a group of at the time misfits who weren't cooperating during seventy three and so we were corralled and take it into a sister paulette's room where she organized a sit to do. it work and part of the busy work we keep working on political campaig

conyers. of the theory that the affordable care act actually intended to have the very benefits the law was passed to create to create the core constituency of needy people that was the target of the law my friend mr. cannon came up with is something that no one on either side of the idol had anything about when the law was passed. he and some other clever colleagues came up with a theory at least nine months after it was passed into the factors -- and they were happy that they have done so and they've bloated that their theory adopted by the courts would drive the stake through the part of obamacare. that's their words that it would sink the aca and threaten its survival. in fact however it does not universally acknowledged the purpose of ensuring access to health insurance for all the millions of americans who cannot afford it. to the contrary, mr. cannon and his colleagues have a few isolated words in the context and ignore the rest of this huge statute. but if you look at the entire statut

conyers.other members' opening statements will be made a part of the record. we welcome our panel of witnesses today. would all please rise, we will begin by swearing you in. and each of you swear that the testimony you are about to give shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? allthe record reflect that of the witnesses responded in the affirmative. thank you. i will now begin by introducing our witnesses. our first witness is jonathan turley, a professor of public interest law at george washington university law school. professor turley is a nationally who hased legal scholar written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory. he has published over three dozen academic articles in over articles and newspapers. professor turley has been recognized as the second most cited law professor in the country. witness is nicholas rosenkranz, a professor of law at georgetown. professor rosenkranz has served and advise to the federal govern

ideally to be wound up within six months that president of conyers said he doesn't see that that is a realistic goal. he wants those french troops on the ground for at least one year from sa's hoping that those african forces can step in and fill that gap there and bring about stability to the country to the district will restore stability and once again lead the way to elections are held and tell us a little about some of the of the issues that the leaders they are going to be discussing summary of the topics well security has really been central to the summit and that the focus is very much been on this rapid response force that can be put together by the african union to sustain in the pipeline for about five years but coming along very slowly. ideally this would be a force of about thirty two thousand five hundred troops under the auspices of the african union and instead of countries like france having to step in in these situations they can deploy that false very quickly. but that has been a lot of progress a lot of talk in the parking deck can be up and running a bike two thous

tried earlier this year with the conyers amendment to the national defense authorization act that would have stripped funding from the n.s.a.'s bulk collection programs as it amendment was narrowly defeated but now months later in several new explosive leaks later lawmakers in the senate are eager to try it again with their and they believe that if the vote were held today it would pass there too however leadership is pushing back as the chairman of the armed services committee carl levin doesn't want any n.s.a. reforms included in this year's and. this fray over the n.s.a. along with other issues related to sanctions on iran might prevent congress from even passing an n.d.a. for the first time in fifty one years again no n.d.a. for the first time in fifty one years so that is what's going on in congress and that's also what has the top defenders of the n.s.a. so concerned chairman rogers and chairman feinstein their rank and file members willing to wreak havoc on the legislative schedule just to make sure they get a vote on an essay reform but the wildcard here will be the american peo

the privacy of each and every american that was a tactic tried earlier this year with the l marsh conyers amendment to the national defense authorization act that would strip funding from the usa's all collection programs. the amendment was narrowly defeated. now months later and several new explosive weeks later lawmakers in the senate are eager to try again with their own dna. they believe that if the vote were held today they would pass their two however leadership is pushing back as the chairman of the armed services committee carl levin doesn't want any of the reforms included in this year's and the head this fray over the nsa along with other issues related to sanctions on iran might prevent congress from even passing in the nba for the first time in fifty one years. again no and da day for the first time in fifty one years. so that is what's going on in congress and that's also what has the top defenders of the nsa so concerned. kevin rogers and kevin finds their rank and file members willing to wreak havoc on the legislative schedule just to make sure they get a vote on an essay r

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was honored by a number of members of congress including john conyers and. keith ellison and others. joins us from. amherst massachusetts for the it we've got a problem with the video feed the cameras way into tight on you so we're just going take your audio from the first ball walk of the program. so you think someone here if you will get the video but we're here yeah we got audio there you go thank you. and thank you might just tell whoever's there if they can just pull the camera back i think that's that's the problem. that's not the problem never mind. so our our guys are talking to each other so anyway let me start with you what first of all what got you into your radar and what got you what you got me to politics as. well i guess the honest answer would be. grade school.

conyers, for holding is to let me thank the witnesses. whenever witnesses come before our body, it is of course valuable, and we trust your judgment. also we may disagree with you vigorously. let me say that the wasteland that mr. lazarus spoke of, and mr. lazarus, please let me cite you and indicate that i will be using this across the land, the vast lands of this nation. which is a rhetorical waste that this hearing equates, but also to suggest that the reason why this body that professor turley has suggested may be on the verge of some basis of irrelevancy, which i take issue with, is because under the president's house leadership we passed no legislation for the president to be up to implement in the first place. we have not passed immigration reform. we have not held with the question of a mandatory minimum. we have not dealt with a budget process. we've not dealt with sequester. if we would simply do our jobs, the relevance to the american people would exceed our expectations. i just came from the fast for family. just a few hours a

other democrats, we had jim mcdermott with us, some of our most senior members, john lewis and john conyers, charlie rangel, maxine waters, people who had actually been active in the antiapartheid movement, and so there was a lot of curiosity about that. the affordable care act, he sort of stuck to his guns about it, but i do think that we were able to really break through some of the talking points and really challenge them. >> really? do you think that he's -- look, nobody is expecting him to suddenly say i think this is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you felt like he was listening to you? >> i am sure that i changed his mind at all. as a matter of fact, at the end of the trip he asked me was i ready to become a republican. >> so he was hoping for the opposite. >> right. i said the republican party would have to change a lot. >> would you like to state unequivocally here that you are not switching parties? >> i am definitely not going to switch to today's gop, but just let me say -- >> yeah, go ahead. >> chris, i do think that there was a lot of very candid conversation. we we

the conyers bill got a lot of votes, but i think they made sure it couldn't pass, and the senate nevercome from the judiciary, as often happens in this nation, and that's probably why republicans were so angry about the nuclear option, because it's judges that make the difference in people's rights. that's what happened in the '60s, that's what's happened throughout our history, and so, now the judicial branch will be the one that saves us. >> well, and that perfectly tees up today's judicial decision by a federal judge, who is not just a george w. bush appointee, a longtime republican operative, essentially, worked on republican committee staff on the hill, was doing stuff on sort of quashing iran contra investigation. i mean, he was a very controversial pick when he was picked, was seen by democrats as, you know, as a stalwart right-winger, and the decision today is pretty remarkable. >> it is, it is, but you know, republicans care about the fourth amendment, too, right? there are 130 co-sponsors of the usa freedom act, which is a bill that reform a lot of these problems. >> includin

tried earlier this year with the amash conyers amendment to the national defense authorization act that would have stripped funding from the n.s.a.'s bulk collection programs the amendment was narrowly defeated but now months later and several new explosive leaks later lawmakers in the senate are eager to try it again with their and they believe that if the vote were held today it would pass there too however leadership is pushing back as the chairman of the armed services committee carl levin doesn't want any n.s.a. reforms included in this year's and. this for a over the n.s.a. along with other issues related to sanctions on iran might prevent congress from even passing an n.d.a. for the first time in fifty one years again no n.d.a. for the first time in fifty one years so that is what's going on in congress and that's also what has the top defenders of the n.s.a. so concerned chairman rogers and chairman feinstein they're rank and file members willing to wreak havoc on the legislative schedule just to make sure they get a vote on n.s.a. reform but the wild card here will be the ameri

let's start off with the year that is about to conyers. -- end.hat do you think will continue into next year? >> i think for me, the biggest surprise was the strength of equity markets. 2014 repeat what we have seen in 2013i think will be the big challenge. it is hard to see how equity markets and risk markets in general can rally to the extent they did in 2013. 53% or thereabouts. that is probably not going to happen again next year. i guess it is going to be the real litmus test for abenomics, what happens in japan and whether we actually begin to see proper growth -- profit growth to ming through. also, wages going up and a bit of self -- a bit of inflation which is sustained. >> in japan, you have a lot of optimism surrounding the fiscal and monetary plans that came through. i think level central banks continue -- global central banks continue to provide liquidity and you saw risk markets respond to that. i think 2014 at least from the u.s. perspective, you're going to see a little bit of curtailing of that liquidity. to whatbe a question of e

john conyers hr 1076, had it for 10 years, 39-page bill. would have made it simpler. it is hard to get their mind around all the complexities of the affordable care act. jenna: jonah, is there still a messaging problem? >> there is messaging problem and also a product problem. alan is right, eventually the website will work. eventually people who think they're enrolling and aren't will vent ali enroll and all that. three core promises of obama care it will cheaper for everybody and keep your doctor and keep your plan. all three of those things are not true. they have nothing to do with the when site. they have to do with the policy and will create real problems. jenna: does this have anything to do with age at this point? people with age have issues with that. does this discriminate. nice to have you weigh in on the sexiest man alive. >> jon scott, should have been asked to do that, don't you think. >> alan, that was very sweet of you. i wasn't expecting that. jon: i don't have enough tattoos. who does? jenna: that's true. well, again, great to have both of you. thank

32 democrats voted against the bill, including some of your colleagues, such as bass and chu, john conyers, sander levin, ranking member of the ways and means committee, raul grijalva. how much swaying was done? guest: there was no whipping on the part of the progressive caucus toward this deal. i had a good talk with keith ellison, and i do not fault him for voting against the deal. there were no benefits for extended unemployment benefits. there are over a million people who will lose benefits, starting december 31, and it is going to wreak havoc on our economy on top of it. these people will not have not only money to sustain themselves, that will not have money to put act into the economy. we extended unemployment i cannot count the number of times since the 1960's what out any offset -- >> both the professor and the doctor of the world health organization will he here on monday. if any journalist would like to have a one-on-one interview or one on two interview with the doctor or with the professor i will pass out my card now and you can get in touch with me and we will see if we can

assessing progress in haiti act of 2013 including representative yvette clarke, maxine waters,on conyers, charlie rangel, karen bass and of course ileana ros-lehtinen. i want to thank congresswoman sheila jackson lee for staying strong and steady and supporting this legislation and for all of their tireless work and long-standing commitment to the well being of haitians and the country of haiti. nearly four years ago, i stood as chair of the congressional black caucus and led a special order recognizing the importance of our relationship with haiti. a short time later, i led a delegation to hay he tee and we witnessed firsthand the devastation firsthand. the congressional black caucus has a long history of working with the haitian people and the haitian american community on a variety of issues. we share a close and long-standing relationship and this has continued under the magnificent leadership of our current chair, chairwoman marcia fudge. on january 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck near haiti's -- haiti's capital. it killed hundreds of thousands and left millions more homel

conyers, be entered into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. scott: and, mr. speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from new york for his comments and for his legislation. i urge my colleagues to support the legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. coble: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from new york for his generous words. i appreciate that, mr. israel. and i too yield back. i first ask unanimous consent, mr. speaker, that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 3626, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. does the gentleman yield back the balance of his time? mr. coble: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the 3626. .r. 3626, -- those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the op

conyers for his opening statement. >> thank you. good morning -- top of the morning to the witnesses and to my colleagues on the house judiciary committee. the president's constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws would be an important issue worthy of a hearing by this committee if there was any evidence that the president has indeed failed to fulfill his duty. but unfortunately, it appears that some here view policy disagreements as constitutional crises and proof of possible wrongdoing. the fact is that disagreements are even allegations that a program is not being carried out the way congress intended should not raise constitutional concerns. if some of my friends want to disagree with the administration, it is of course it's certainly their right. but we should keep some days here and consider the following issues. to begin with some of the administration's actions criticized by the majority are not really that much out of the ordinary. .. deadlines in medicare part d. even though it was legislation he strongly supporte