representatives, charles rangel of new york, north carolina's rep and john conyers. [applause] >> good morning. we're here to honor those who served and to remember those who perished in the conflict. please stand for the presentation of the colors. ♪ 06 n uc ♪ by the dawn's early light? ♪ what so proudly we hail ♪ let the toilettes less greening ♪ whose bright stripes and bright stars ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ over the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets' red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ 0, said, does that star spangled banner ♪ yet wave ♪ over the land of the free ♪ and if the home of the brave >> please remain standing as dr. gary black gives the indication. >> lettuce pray. the eternal lord god will loan spreads up the heavens, we gather in prayer on of this 60th anniversary of america's forgotten war to seek your blessings. bless the family is of the fallen as well as the shrinking core of aging and korean war veterans -- of aging korean war veterans. let t

representatives, charles rangel, coble, and john conyers. this lasts about 50 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> good morning. today we are here to remember those who perished in the conflict. please stand for the presentation of the colors. >> ♪ 0, say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ was so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose bright stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ over the ramparts we watched were so proudlvaliantly streami♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ is approved through the night that our flag was still there -- gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ jose does that star spangled banner yet wave yetoh -- oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave for the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing. >> let us pray. the internal lord god who loan spreads out the heavens, we gather on prayer and rigid we gather in prayer

maile co-sponsors are john conyers and barney frank -- my lead the co-sponsors are john conyers and barney frank. >> senator george. >> thank you. i have the best record a bipartisan accomplishment. i have had to work with democrats. i have found a way to do it. one of by first packages a bill was end of life care legislation. it was meant to bring better care to dying patients. i have worked on smoke-free air regulation, which would not have passed the michigan senate without my help. i'm working on a bipartisan package of bills to help facilitate new uses for abandoned and tax reverted properties. there are nearly 70,000 in michigan. bipartisanship is necessary. working together with the other side to get things done for the common good of the citizens. >> share of bouchard. >> thank you. i do not think the last eight years have been a success story. we need to move things for dramatically. i was the majority floor leader in the senate before i left, the assistant before that, the president pro tem. i know how get votes. that is what a leader does. governor has not introduced one bill --

i want to thank the chairman of the judiciary committee, john conyers, ranking member, lamar smith, and representative fortenberry for their support on this measure. i urge my colleagues to support this important legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves her time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. smith: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: i co-sponsored this legislation sponsored by chairwoman lofgren and i urge my colleagues to support it. we have a tradition of welcoming new comers and met one million immigrants a year as many as all other countries combined. this continues thisen rossity by ensuring parents who want to open hair hearts and homes to children from around the world are able to do so. the act provides that u.s. citizens can adopt foreign children and have the children considered immediate relatives for immigration purposes if the children are adopted while under the age of 16 years. american families who initiated adoptions of foreign childre

madam speaker, i'd like to thank chairman john conyers. he's always on the case in a timely fashion prorkviding the leadership that's so desperately needed on issues such as this one. madam speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 5503, the securing protexts for the injured from limitation from liability act the spill act, h.r. 5503 is a good first step and must be passed to immediately assist the victims who would otherwise be denid adequate compensation under our current laws. i'm very disappointed at some of the arguments being made against this bill by my friends on the opposite side of the aisle. one of the arguments that they make is that the provisions of spe the spill act will allow surviving families to receive undue compensation. let me set the record straight. it currently provides outdated compensation for victims on the high seas because it fails to award damages for pain and suffering and loss of care, comfort, and companionship in many cases, including in accidents like the deepwater horizon explosion. this is not intended to sing

john conyers was on "democracy now" yesterday, and one of his colleagues came up with a little mottolike the republicans usually do, and that is "the war is making you poor." if we look at 70 cents of every tax dollar going to the military-industrial complex, at all public-works, schools closing left and right, parks are closing, you take 55 cents back from the military- industrial machine and invested back into our country, and then we would see infrastructure, our roads being fixed. we have the technology to go ahead with the wind turbines. we have the technology. we just take it away from the big oil, take it away from the big company, and give all our research and all of our resources -- we cannot put america back to work -- we can put america back to work, we just have to give them the profits and get off fossil fuels. host: to new yorkers feel like they should be getting more support from the federal government to lessen the burden? guest: i think that is why the governors of these large estates are lobbying the federal government to extend the assistance package. there is no d

and the end racial profiling act which is sponsored by representative john conyers which would eliminate law enforcement prtices singling out people for heightened scrutiny based on their race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. when will congress acts to make our streets safer for everyone? >> thank you for your question. we hope to take up the fair sentencing, the differentiation on crack and powder cocaine hopefully this week. this is something kind of shocking to you. this has already passed the senate. [laughter] kind of surprising. remarkable, remarkable. and i think it was a voice vote or something but anyway i am sure they didn't. we are hoping to take it up this week. we want to take it up under suension. we are trying to get as much bipartisan support as possible. we are operating under principles that it is possible for us to get republican support for code some of that is in doubt, but we are optimistic that we can go forward, so our hope would be to take it up under suspension this week, get a good strong vote for this to lessen-- it doesn't eliminate the disparity but

maile co-sponsors were john conyers and barney frank. an ability to focus on the issues and to focus on solutions and get the job done. >> i am the candidate with the best record of bipartisan accomplishment. i have served in the legislature for 10 years in a term limited and burma. i have had to work with democrats and found a way to do it. one of my bills was end of life care legislation. i am a physician. it was to facilitate better care for dying patients. i have also worked on smoke-free air legislation that would not have passed without my help. right now, i am working on a bipartisan package of bills to facilitate new uses for abandoned properties. there are nearly 70,000 in detroit, the face of michigan to the outside world. bipartisanship is going to be necessary, not giving up on one's principles but working together with the other side to get things done for the common good of the citizens of michigan. >> with all due respect, i do not think the last eight years have been a success story. i believe we need to move things forwa

staff of the judiciary committee, with the consent of the chairman of the judiciary committee, john conyers, with the compolicesy of the rules committee, chaired by louise slaughter, and i think at least in the silence of it all, within the arrangement of the speaker of the house's method of running this place, speaker pelosi. and so, this franchise that is every member of congress, each of us that represents about 700,000 people in this congress, we come here to carry the values of our constituents and out among our districts, we have all the solutions for america. we have all the answers that man and woman can device out there among our constituents, 700,000 i have the privilege to represent added to the other 305.3 million or so that are represented by the other 435 members of congress. and we go out, we have an information network. we gather data and we have those voices coming in to my office constantly. that's what we do. and as part of my job, weigh those ideas in, place them in the right place, get them to the subcommittees, get information before the hearings, get them to the subke

i thank the chairman, john conyers, for being persistent over the years on the criminal justice issues, even coming to houston, texas, and listening to a teeming room of individuals who came to tell him how they had been discriminated against by this overwhelming inequitable law dealing with crack cocaine. thank you. today we are doing something that is not going to be soft on crime. but let me see if you understand this. it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to trig they are five-year mandatory minimum. it takes just five grams of crack cocaine. it takes five kilogramms of crack cocaine but 50 grams of crack cocaine. it's important that this one to 18 be put many place. in response to the 1980's and we thought the devastating act of using drugs was the underpinnings of crime but what we have seen is that we are creating crime by throwing these individuals in jail instead of rah habilitation and by keeping this oppressive sentencing structure. so for the first time we're i limb nating the five-year mandatory prison term for first-time possession of crack cocaine. it encourages the u.s.

rahall: i join in thanking the chairman of the house judiciary committee, chairman john conyers, for his help on this legislation and in particular i want to thank the subcommittee chairman on crime, terrorism, and homeland security, the gentleman from virginia, bobby scott. i'm very happy to yield to him now four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for four minutes. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i'm pleased to join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in support of the legislation today which includes the tribal law and order act of 2010. others have spoken about the yepped of crime in our nation's indian land, unfortunately many tribes reported many of the crimes, including the very serious crimes such as rape and assault, are not included among those prosecuted in federal courts by u.s. attorneys e. either a matter of case priorities or limited resources. with inadequate funding and limited prosecutorial authority of the tribes, even when the crimes are first prted in tribal court, the limitation

john conyers was so important in the passage of this bill. everybody has mentioned attorney general thornburgh. he and his wife are both giants in the support of the education of so many of us and the challenge confronting those with disabilities. it has been mentioned over and over again that this is an historic time, 20 years, two decades since the passage of the americans with disabilities act. the first president bush signed into law one of the greatest leap and civil-rights legislation in history. it has been called the most significant civil rights legislation in 25 years, since the passage in 1965 of the civil rights act. the ceremony in the south line -- at the ceremony on the south lawn of the white house, president bush said that with the signing of this bill, every man, woman and child could now passed through once closed doors into a bright era of quality, independence and freedom. he was right. those stories certainly have come open. tens of millions of americans with disabilities now enjoy rights the rest of us have long taken f

john conyers was on "democracy now" yesterday, and one of his colleagues came up with a little motto like the republicans usually do, and that is "the war is making you poor." if we look at 70 cents of every tax dollar going to the military-industrial complex, at all public-works, schools closing left and right, parks are closing, you take 55 cents back from the military- industrial machine and invested back into our country, and then we would see infrastructure, our roads being fixed. we have the technology to go ahead with the wind turbines. we have the technology. we just take it away from the big oil, take it away from the big company, and give all our research and all of our resources -- we cannot put america back to work -- we can put america back to work, we just have to give them the profits and get off fossil fuels. host: to new yorkers feel like they should be getting more support from the federal government to lessen the burden? guest: i think that is why the governors of these large estates are lobbying the federal government to extend the assistance package. there is no