conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. conyers: in 2014 in a unanimous ruling delivered by chief justice roberts, the supreme court concluded that the police may not search a cell phone without first demonstrating probable cause. citing an obvious fourth amendment interest in the vast amount of data we store on our personal devices, the court wrote, and i quote, the fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the founders fought. our answer to the question of whether police must do -- what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple, get a warrant. with that decision, the court took a bold step toward reconciling the fourth amendment with the advent of modern communications technology. today the house takes a similar step to reconcile our interests in privacy and due process with the realities of modern c

conyers: thank you, sir. i'm pleased to recognize the gentlelady from california, linda sanchez, for two minutes. ms. sanchez: thank you, mr. conyers, for your leadership and for organizing this special order to highlight the grave consequences of senate republican obstructionism by blocking a simple up or down vote on the nomination of judge merit garland to the supreme court. republicans claim to love the constitution, yet they refuse to acknowledge their constitutional duty. senate republicans have chosen to play politics instead of doing what's right for the american people. they simply don't want to do their job. president obama faithfully fulfilled his constitutional duty by nominating chief judge merrick garland to the supreme court but senate republicans refused to even hold a hearing to consider, to just consider, chief judge garland's nomination. this refusal to fulfill a constitutional duty of theirs to vet and vote on this nominee is indicative of republicans' eight-year strategy of obstructing pr

and that's how nikki came here to safe, secure conyers. this is robert's house. here, they made a family. unusual in some ways, as you will hear. but -- >> it was nice. everything clicked just right. >> and she wanted her life to get even better. so while she kept her job as a hairstylist, she enrolled in atlanta's bauder college to study fashion design. >> that's when i actually learned that nikki was a hairstylist. >> rhonda anderson taught a couple of nikki's classes. she thought nikki had a sense of purpose, whether it was about her kids, her fashion, or other people's hair. >> i came in to class early one day, as i normally do. she looked up at me and said, miss anderson whaerks , what's going on with your hair? i said what? excuse me? nikki asked me this question, "do you have a hairstylist? does she know you have your hair looking like that today?" i said, "yes and no." she said, "miss anderson, i'm giving her one more chance. one more chance. if it's not right, i'm taking over." >> rhonda loved nikki, and nikki loved her girls. she put the twins in dance

and of course ranking member conyers. who has for so long been a guiding light on our party on issues of justice. but congressman, you and mr. conyers together have been this chamber's champions on civil rights and equality in our justice system. once again you're leading fight as we call for reforms to an unjust and unequal arbitration system. i am grateful and thank you for your leadership. mr. speaker, at the foundation of our democracy is one simple promise. that no matter who you are or where you come from, what you've done, you'll be seen as equal before the law. thomas jefferson himself wrote centuries ago, quote, the most sacred duties of government is to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens. forced arbitration, mr. speaker, is an affront to that duty. and a manipulation of the justice system that tips our scales in direction of influence, money and power. it removes the slightest veneer of fair treatment in cases ranging from sexual harassment and discrimination to loss of how it'sing and shelter to neg

welfare: how the system hurts the people it's supposed to help," the authors are phil harvey and lisa conyers and they will be upstairs signing some books, please join us for lunch and get your books signed. thank you very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv, the annapolis book festival from maryland state capital. afterwords the rise of elected women in public office with representative maxine waters. for a complete television schedule visit booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. >> here's a look at some authors recently featured on booktv's afterwords, our weekly interview program. former congressman jc watts talked about guiding principles he follows in his professional and personal life. professor and former chairwoman of the civil rights commission mary frances berry explore the history of voter fraud and suppression. nancy cohen discussed the challenges women face in politics and potential of a woman president. in coming weeks on afterwords the mother of columbine high school shooter dylan

i have the book for him here for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. for those of you following us online you can follow on twitter at cato events or the human cost of welfare. the u.s. federal government last year spent roughly $688 billion to fund more than 100 anti-poverty programs. federal, state and local governments spent an additional $300 billion on those and other programs. that means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. if you want to go back to 1965 when lyndon johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or $23 trillion fighting poverty. what have we really accomplished over the period of time? if you use the census bureau official poverty numbers, the rates have barely budged. and even if you use th sort of alternative measures which are more accurate and taking to account the taxation and other things, you find that progress against poverty really stalled out somewhere in the 1970s and it's pretty flatter ever since. we are spending more getting fewer and fewer results that as bad as tha

the authors are phil harvey and lisa conyers and they'll be upstairs signing books. so, please join us for lunch, and get your book signed. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations discussion] -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv recently took tour of the folger shakespeare library in washington, dc. it holds the largest shakespeare collection in the world. here's a portion of that tour. >> this is published in 1623. it's the most complete single volume record of shakespeare's works, and it's important that his friends assembled it because they probably had a better idea of what shakespeare thought what important they dade wonderful thing. they said here's three types of plays, comedies, histories and tragedies, which helps us as literary critics. this is an engraving that was -- it's part of the book, it's missing from some copies and very valuable, but ben joynson, who knew shakespeare, says this is a likeness of the man and that's one of those person-to-person familiar connections to shakespeare, and so we

to her social media accounts, she is an attorney and for conyers for 10 years . the first time he has had problem with staffers. he took responsibility for possible house violations after staffers said he made them babysit his son. he blamed that on a lack of clarity. we reached out to the congressman's office who said is disappointed and martin has been placed on unpaid leave. according to internet documents, she made $165,000 a year. leon: the head of the tsa is opening up about the moment bombs exploded at the brussels airport. he had just arrived that morning for a meeting. >> seeing the devastation, seeing the chaos of the airport a starkent, was reminder of the importance of the work we do everyday to protect travelers. senate committee there were no specific credible threats against the u.s. right now. the march attack killed 16 people. 16 more died at a nearby subway station. r days after flights resumed at the brussels airport, the first dulles flight took off today. flight 515 landed safely with more than 200 on board. for the employees of belgium's off

i am pleased that ranking member conyers is a lead sponsor of this important legislation and want to thank him and his staff for their efforts in developing this bill. i would also like to thank representative trot for introducing this -- trott for introducing this legislation and chairman marino on the committee of regulatory reform, antitrust law, who is one of the original sponsors of the bill and helped usher the bill through the committee. i also want to commend my colleague from georgia, who is also involved in this work, and who is the ranking member of that same subcommittee. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this important legislation, and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. -- 24 -- 2947, the stop the financial institution bankruptcy act of 2015, amends the bankruptcy code to establish a process for the expedited judicial resolution of large financial institutions to soften the disruptive effects of their collapse. as we all know, the great rece

conyers has served in the house for 52 years. martin pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property last week. she's been ordered to make restitution and is scheduled to appear again in d.c. superior court in september. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >>> well, tonight the prince william county school board will reconsider a school name change it made just a few weeks ago. the board renamed godwin middle school in honor of dr. george hat hampton. right now it's named for mills godwin and some residents don't support the name change and say the board never gave them an opportunity to weigh in. tonight's meeting begins at 7:00 at the kelly leadership center. that's in manassas. >>> i'm mark segraves in the district. it's been a problem for years throughout our ige. riders terrorizing citizens on public streets and sidewalks, but today d.c. police chief cathy lanier announced there's going to be a regional effort to crack down on the atv riders. she said both federal and local law enforcement are coming together to battle

conyers: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank the ought or of this bill, the gentlelady rom texas, who first saw the importance of it and i want to tell you that this measure before us today strengthens the terrorist screening base maintained by the federal bureau of investigation and in doing so, aids in our efforts to combat terrorism and keep our nation safe. the screening center helps to identify known and suspected terrorists by integrating information collected by law enforcement and the intelligence community. since its inception in 2003, this sophisticated watch list and screening system has undoubtedly saved lives. but despite the work the dedicated individuals who make the screening data base possible, the system is not flawless. past incidents such as the 2009 christmas day attempted attack on a northwest airlines flight bound from my hometown of detroit already mentioned by the gentlelady from texas, has put a spotlight on potential gaps in the system. over the years since, the f.b.i. s made signi

the book forum for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. for those folks who are following this online, you can follow along on twitter atcato event or hash tag human cost of welfare. the u.s. federal government last year spent roughly $688 billion to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. federal -- state, local governments, rather, spent an additional $300 billion on those and other programs. that means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. if you want to go all the way back to 1965, when lyndon johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or $23 trillion fighting poverty. what have we really accomplished over that period of time? if you used the census bureau's numbers, poverty rates have barely budged and even if you use the al concern i.t. poverty measure which are more accurate and take into account noncash benefits and things like taxation and other things, you find that progress against poverty really stalled out somewhere in the 1970s and has been pretty flat ever since. we're sp

congressman john conyers has placed a top aide on unpaid leave. cynthia mayor continue plemarti guilty to receiving stolen property and refused to return deposited into her congressional federal trade union savings account. the money was mistakenly routed from another customer's account. investigators say martin knew about the mistake but withdrew some cash and transferred the money to other accounts instead of returning it. >>> attorneys for former u.s. house speaker dennis hastert want probation for their client. attorneys for the illinois republican asked a federal judge yesterday to sentence him to a term of probation saying he was in poor health. hastert pleaded guilty to violating federal banking laws. he could face up to six months in prison. >>> now to a touching story that we've heard from many of you who want to help a firefighter who lost her apartment if a fire on easter sunday. on tuesday she received a huge gift from a fellow firefighter who didn't even know her. retired battalion chief john lee gave moore a check. turns out lee had

one here over northern rockland county and approaching the western shores here of the hudson river conyers. it could be a heavier downpour with that and it should be shocking to hear a rumble of thunder. also another batch of the showers have been moving through southern parts of the ,000,000ddlesex, new jersey, weakening a couple of sprinkles moving through northern parts of the county. and as you can see that it is not that impressive with a lot more moisture off to the south. but it will all shift offshore overnight. we are just kind of in this apparent right here where we here is the future cast as you can see that. it is not very impressed with the prospects of getting a lot of rain during the evening hours. just a spotty shower or storm right through midnight. by 7:00 in the morning the activity well to the south and the east and that here in the city we are cloudy at 62. then we will start clearing things out during the afternoon and with enough sunshine by mid- afternoon we will get back up to around 70 degrees. after a slow start with the clouds and maybe a shower southeastern tom

the authors are phil harvey and lisa conyers, and they will be upstairs signing some books. we are selling them so, please, join us for lunch and get your books signed. thank you all very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here's a look at what's on prime time tonight: >> thomas frank is next on booktv. he looks at the impact of liberalism on government policies in his book, "listen, liberal." >> welcome, everyone. my name's rick mcarthur, i'm the publisher of harper's magazine and the proud part owner of this beautiful independent bookstore on -- [applause] manhattan's beautiful upper west side. one reason i invested in this store was to help harper's magazine but also 'cuz i couldn't stand to see another cash machine open on columbus avenue. and -- i'm serious. and i am going to make an appeal to you before i introduce tom. because we're involved in a culture war here in this space that is worth fighting, the real culture war. and that is the fight against amazon's domination of the bo

congressman john conyers has just place one of the his top aides on unpaid leave. we broke the news earlier today that cynthia martin, chief of staff to the michigan congressman, has pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. in court records u.s. capitol police say martin refused to return $13,000 that was mistakenly deposited into her congressional federal credit union savings account. that money was mistakenly routed from another customer's account. investigators say martin knew of the mistake but withdrew some cash and transferred the money to other accounts instead of >>> high schoolers in loudoun county are spearheading an effort to spread hope and love. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver shows us how students at one school are trying to stop teen suicides. ♪ >> reporter: with each note played, the more than 1500 students filling wood grove high school's gym sat captivated. a school day unlike others initiated by the students, classes put on hold. but the lesson, life-saving, or so they hope. >> we have a huge problem and it's because there's a

on april 21, 2015, i was joined by representative john conyers in reintroducing the end racial profiling legislation i originally introduced before the death of trayvon martin. as baltimore emerged from the unrest i met with community hrerdz to discuss -- leaders to discuss legislative responses to help heal baltimore's physical wounds and how to address many of the core problems that underpin the unrest. i met with a pharmacy owner whose store had been looted. i spoke with residents in east and west baltimore. i visited freddie gray's elementary school to hear from teachers and community leaders about what tools they require for the federal government to better meet the needs of students. in the weeks following the unrest, i went back and forth from baltimore city to the senate and the white house relaying the needs of baltimoreans to my colleagues and top obama administration officials. i was joined by the maryland congressional delegation, my colleague and friends, senator senator mikulski, and members of our city delegation, congressman cummings and congressman sarbanes. i welcomed t

conyer, they're not unanimous -- >> 84%. >> there are plenty who take an opposing view. my impression is that the balance of opinion is very moderate about this. and most people think that the stakes -- the stakes are much -- >> it's difficult to -- >> are much lower than they were. >> you did -- >> the interesting feature of -- i think exports in the last ten years, exports of natural services to the eu have gone down for about 39% of our financial services exports by 32%, possibly even lower as a proportion of our exports. there are opportunities to go around the world. this is the moment to go global. what i fear is by staying locked into the eu system, where they consecrate the right to set trading arrangements to the commission, we're missing huge, huge opportunities. it would be -- i think it would be -- i think it would be massively beneficial to europe as well. >> can i ask you just one question? because you talk about the rest of the world. we did ask the rest of the world, why do they trade? london? why u.s. banks want to come to london? every one of them talk

that's why we're holding the hearing and why chairman goodlatte and i as well as chairman palone and conyersstablished a a group to examine this issue. in order for congress to confront the issue it will require patience, creativity, courage and more importantly cooperation. it's easy to call on congress to take on an issue but you better be prepared to answer the call when we do. this issue is too important to have key players sitting on the sidelines and therefor i hope all of you are prepared to participate as we take to heart what we hear today and be part of the solution moving forward. i yield back. >> gentleman yields back, now recognize mr. palone for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i welcome the opportunity to hear today from both law enforcement and the tech community as we seek to understand and develop solutions to this encryption debate. encryption enable the privacy and security that we value but it also creates challenges for those seeking to protect us. law enforcement has a difficult job of keeping our nation safe and they're finding some encrypted devices and prog

congressman john conyers has also provided invaluable support. in addition to the broad partisan support that we've collected here on this bill from our colleagues, we've gained endorsements from dozens and dozens of companies as diverse as boeing and corning, microsoft and dupont. it's also a testament, i believe, to the hard work and esteem in which senator hatch is held by his colleagues that senator hatch, who has long been a leader on intellectual property, has been able to lead such a successful, open and collaborative process that's allowed us to move the bill to this point today. many of our colleagues, republicans and democrats, had suggestions for ways to improve the original draft, and i'm proud that many of the senators who originally raised concerns or questions have now become cosponsors of the bill as a result of senator hatch's leadership and our collaboration. in today's political climate, it's easy to forget that to get things done, we don't have to agree on everything. we just have to agree on one thing. and in this case, we'