conyers mentioned, was the involvement of stevie wonder.inally, a major factor was the successful holiday legislation passed at the state level. let me talk briefly about each of these. the congressional black caucus. mr. conyers and other countries people introduced the bill in every session of the legislator. they received the support of all the members of the congressional black caucus. you read a lot of things about the congressional black caucus, and do they stand together? they stood together as a unified party on this legislation. and not just them. neighbor in the to garnish support from other members of congress -- they were able to garner support from other members of congress. you mentioned jack kemp was one of the stronger leaders of support. once we had the legislation in the final round in which it passed the house, there was a freshman female who was placed in a key position and decided she would put her name on the bill and would introduce it. so it was the willingness of her, when it came down to getting this thing passed,

stevie wonder sang that dr. king's vision of peace should be celebrated throughout the world and that a holiday would help achieve dr. king's dreams of integration and love and unity for all of god's children. on november 3, 1983, legislation was signed into law designating the third monday of january as a federal holiday in observance of dr. king. madam speaker, i urge all my colleagues to support this resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: thank you, madam speaker. i thank my friend, la mart smith, for his -- lamar smith, for his significant contribution and his work as a co-leader on the judiciary committee for all the other thimmings we work on as well. i -- things we work on as well. i turn now to john lewis of georgia who i knew before he was a member of congress and he knew me before i was a member of congress as well. i yield him as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the

i remember stevie wonder being there. this is not long after stevie wonder sang happy birthday to dr. king. in 1982, i remember that particular demonstration because it was very cold that day. it was two days after an airplane went down in the potomac river. at 74 people were killed. the demonstration was two days after that. it took me 4.5 hours to get home from work that day. two days later, to imagine that people would take buses and come to washington and i would find myself standing out on the mall in this cold weather and the snow was still on the ground and it was damp. if you would be shivering and would try to find some comfort. i remember going to the botanical gardens by the house office building, trying to get a little warmth because it was so cold. i remember remarking that people are serious about this bill because they just would not be out here in all of this cold weather. that is when i knew that we would get this bill passed because when we were out there and all that cold weather, whenever it snowed, we

conyers has already mentioned, is the involvement of stevie wonder, and finally, a major factor was the successful holiday legislation passed the state level, and let me talk briefly about each of these. the congressional black caucus

. >> stevie dissents the justices were skeptical? >> the best answer i can give you to that question is in 1996 when the only other time i argued a case before the supreme court, i walked out with a sense that some of the justices were skeptical of my position, and in the end we won eight to one. i think it's very dangerous to draw inferences based on the justices questioned that i think there's no doubt that justice breyer had some serious questions, but aside from justice breyer, who may simply have been engaging in aggressive questioning and who may not have been showing his opinion, i think it's very hard to tell how all of the other justices would have ruled. >> okay. >> is there anyone here from american needle? >> did anybody lose their blackberry? [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> nfl players want to come over? can we get somebody from the info players? >> can we get your name until? >> my name is jeffrey kessler, and i'm counsel for the nfl players association, the nba players association, and filed a br

two years ago i met stevie wonder in los angeles.era at celia, compelling her to marry me. that was just the backup. the real thing was her favorite author is an american author named john uptike, and he wrote a very obscure early book named "marry me." it's her birthday, took her to paris for the weekend, she opens the present, it's a first edition of "marry me" by her author. >> did she get it right away? >> there were tears. i've moved greyhounds move slower than that, to be honest. >> did you pull the ring out after that? >> no. i kept it a little different. >> where is the ring? >> that's a later stage. it has to be a bit more precise. >> i love that proposal. >> thank you. >> that's a beautiful way of doing it. there's another beautiful girl i want you to see. >> who is that? >> we have video of her. she's 2 years old and she is so cute. just watch the best video. listen. listen. >> merry christmas. >> ho, ho, ho, merry christmas, santa. >> you could die. that's my niece, hannah. i just had to show you her. ho, ho, ho, merry ch