51-535: (Redirected from Mi-1 ) MI-1 or MI1 may refer to: Michigan's 1st congressional district M-1 (Michigan highway) Mission: Impossible , 1996 film MI1 , a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Mil Mi-1 , a Soviet three- or four-seat light utility helicopter [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
102-531: A 2004 United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report on Modi stating that he was "widely accused of being reluctant to bring the perpetrators of the killings of Muslims and non-Hindus to justice". (See 2002 Gujarat riots .) The resolution was not adopted. In April 2006 Conyers, together with ten other senior congressmen , filed an action in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division , challenging
153-622: A December 16, 2010, hearing of the House Judiciary Committee on the subject of "the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks ", Conyers "argue[d] strongly against prosecuting WikiLeaks in haste – or at all." He strongly defended the whistleblowing organization, saying: As an initial matter, there is no doubt that WikiLeaks is very unpopular right now. Many feel that
204-425: A college education. He earned both his BA (1957) and LL.B. (1958) degrees from Wayne State University . After he was admitted to the bar, he worked on the staff of Congressman John Dingell . He also served as counsel to several Detroit-area labor union locals . From 1961 to 1963, he was a referee for Michigan's workmen's compensation department. Conyers became one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. He
255-632: A desire to remain in office that it entered into an almost unending series of plans for spying, burglary and wiretapping, inside this country and against its own citizens, and without precedent in American history. Conyers submitted the United States National Health Care Act (Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) (H.R. 676); as of 2015, it had 49 cosponsors. He introduced it with 25 cosponsors, in 2003, and reintroduced it each session since then. The act calls for
306-654: A house resolution that would have condemned the conduct of Narendra Modi , then the chief minister of the State of Gujarat in India. The resolution was cosponsored by Republican Representative Joseph R. Pitts (Republican of Pennsylvania). The resolution's title was: "Condemning the conduct of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his actions to incite religious persecution and urging the United States to condemn all violations of religious freedom in India ." The resolution cited
357-631: Is a United States congressional district that fully contains the 15 counties of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and 20 counties of Northern Michigan in the Lower Peninsula . The district is currently represented by Republican Jack Bergman . The district is the second-largest congressional district east of the Mississippi River by land area, only behind Maine's 2nd congressional district . Its boundaries contain
408-634: The Congressional Progressive Caucus after it was founded in 1991. Conyers supported creation of a single-payer healthcare system and sponsored the United States National Health Care Act . He also sponsored a bill to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday, and was the first congressperson to introduce legislation in support of reparations for the descendants of African American slavery. Conyers ran for Mayor of Detroit in 1989 and 1993, but he
459-718: The Detroit City Council . (She won a seat in 2005.) He also forced them to baby-sit and chauffeur his children. In late December 2006, Conyers "accepted responsibility" for violating House rules. A statement issued December 29, 2006, by the House Ethics Committee chairman Doc Hastings and Ranking Minority Member Howard Berman , said Conyers acknowledged what he characterized as a "lack of clarity" in his communications with staff members regarding their official duties and responsibilities, and accepted responsibility for his actions. In deciding to drop
510-972: The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act , a bill that would overturn the NIH Public Access Policy , an open-access mandate of the National Institutes of Health . Conyers's bill would forbid the government from mandating that federally funded research be made freely available to the public. The legislation was supported by the publishing industry, and opposed by groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Writers Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen accused Conyers of being influenced by publishing houses, who have contributed significant money to his campaigns. On January 13, 2009,
561-662: The Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott , moved to Detroit and served on Conyers's staff between 1965 and 1988. Conyers was known to have opposed regulation of online gambling . He opposed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 . After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Conyers introduced the first bill in Congress to make King's birthday a federal holiday. He continued to propose legislation to establish
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#1732797901324612-591: The Second Blair ministry to invade Iraq in 2002. The Times , among the first to publish news of the leak, wrote that the discovered documented revealed the intentions of Bush and Blair to invade Iraq, along with revealing that the two had "discussed creating pretextual justifications for doing so." The memo story broke in the United Kingdom, but did not receive much coverage in the United States. Conyers said: "This should not be allowed to fall down
663-602: The Sunlight Foundation , which referred to readthebill.org in response. In October, Conyers responded to allegations from four Republican Congress Members, in the wake of the launch of the book Muslim Mafia , that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sought to plant Muslim "spies" in Capitol Hill . He strongly opposed the accusations, saying: It shouldn't need to be said in 2009, and after
714-732: The torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, as well as further evidence of torture having been committed but not made known to the public. Finally, the document reports on a series of "smear tactics" purportedly used by the administration in dealing with its political adversaries. The document calls for the censure of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney . Conyers refused to back impeachment proceedings, however. Conyers proposed House Resolution 288, which condemns "religious intolerance" and emphasizes Islam as needing special protection from acts of violence and intolerance. It states that "it should never be official policy of
765-537: The "Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act" ( H.R. 3745 ) in January 1989. He re-introduced this bill each congressional term. It calls for establishing a commission to research the history of slavery in the United States and its effects on current society, which is to recommend ways to remedy this injustice against African Americans. The current version was introduced and referred to committee on January 3, 2013. Conyers first introduced
816-520: The Bush administration. In late July 2009, Conyers, commenting on the healthcare debate in the House , stated: "I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill' ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?" His remark brought criticism from government transparency advocates such as
867-500: The CBC was founded to strengthen African American lawmakers' ability to address the legislative concerns of Black and minority citizens. He served longer in Congress than any other African American. In 1971, he was one of the original members of Nixon's Enemies List . In 1965, Conyers won a seat as a freshman on the influential Judiciary Committee , which was then chaired by Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler of New York. The assignment
918-757: The House Committee on the Judiciary, led by Conyers, released Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush , a 486-page report detailing alleged abuses of power that occurred during the Bush administration , and a comprehensive set of recommendations to prevent recurrence. Conyers introduced a bill to set up a "truth commission" panel to investigate alleged policy abuses of
969-530: The Iraq War , an edited collection of information intended to serve as evidence that the Bush administration altered intelligence to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq . The Constitution in Crisis examines much of the evidence presented by the Bush administration prior to the invasion and questions the credibility of their sources of intelligence. In addition, the document investigates conditions that led to
1020-758: The United States Government to disparage the Quran , Islam, or any religion in any way, shape, or form," and "calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith." The bill was referred to the House subcommittee on the Constitution in June 2005. In 2005, Conyers introduced House Resolution 160,
1071-504: The WikiLeaks publication was offensive. But being unpopular is not a crime, and publishing offensive information is not either. And the repeated calls from politicians, journalists, and other so-called experts crying out for criminal prosecutions or other extreme measures make me very uncomfortable. Indeed, when everyone in this town is joined together calling for someone's head, that is it a pretty strong sign we need to slow down and take
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#17327979013241122-554: The ballot, ruling that the requirement that circulators be registered voters was similar to an Ohio law which had been found unconstitutional in 2008 by a Federal appeals court. The Michigan Secretary of State's office subsequently announced they would not appeal the ruling. Conyers was one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and was considered the Dean of that group. Formed in 1969,
1173-543: The claims in the report pertaining to voter suppression tend to have been supported, including through court cases. Some of the claims pertaining to manipulation of the count and similar election fraud have been refuted. Consequently this report should be considered a representation of a minority view. The report included the following claims: While some courts before the election found that certain restrictive voting policies of Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell were illegal, claims of voter and machine fraud swaying
1224-914: The constitutionality of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 . The complaint alleged the bill was not afforded due consideration by the United States Congress before being signed by the President. The action was subsequently dismissed on grounds of lack of standing . In April 2006, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office sent independent letters to the House Ethics Committee , saying two former aides of Conyers had alleged that Conyers used his staff to work on several local and state campaigns of other politicians – including his wife – for
1275-462: The creation of a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, in which the government would provide every resident health care free of charge. To eliminate disparate treatment between richer and poorer Americans, the Act would prohibit private insurers from covering any treatment or procedure already covered by the Act. Conyers was one of the House impeachment managers who prosecuted
1326-422: The elected were Polish-American) and the dissolved 16th district (where all three elected representatives were of Polish descent). In 1964, the 1st congressional district was drawn as a new, African-American majority district reflecting the changing demographics of Detroit, while enough of the old 1st district was moved to the 14th district so that the 14th district retained the 1st's old congressman. John Conyers
1377-568: The election have not achieved mainstream acceptance, and several have been refuted. Conyers was one of 31 members of the House who voted not to count the 20 electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election . The state was won by Republican President George Bush by 118,457 votes. On August 4, 2006, Conyers released his report, The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retributions and Cover-ups in
1428-407: The entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan and much of the northern part of the Lower Peninsula . Altogether, the district makes up about 44% of the land area of the state of Michigan yet contains only 7% of Michigan's population. It contains the second-longest shoreline of any district in the United States, behind Alaska's at-large congressional district . Prior to 1992, the 1st congressional district
1479-532: The federal holiday in every session of Congress from 1968 to 1983, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day was finally signed into law by President Ronald Reagan . In 1983 he joined with 7 other congressional representatives to sponsor a resolution to impeach Ronald Reagan over his sudden and unexpected invasion of Grenada . According to The New Republic , Conyers was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in 1983. Conyers introduced
1530-412: The fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery; It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves; It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans; and the commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans." Conyers served as
1581-554: The historic election of our first African-American president, but let me remind all my colleagues that patriotic Americans of all races, religions, and beliefs have the right – and the responsibility – to participate in our political process, including by volunteering to work in Congressional offices. Numerous Muslim-American interns have served the House ably and they deserve our appreciation and respect, not attacks on their character or patriotism. At
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1632-603: The in case the impeachment trial of Judge Alcee Hastings . Hastings was found guilty by the United States Senate and removed from his federal judgeship. On May 5, 2005, Conyers and 88 other members of Congress wrote an open letter to the White House inquiring about the Downing Street memo . This was a leaked memorandum that revealed an apparent secret agreement between the Bush administration and
1683-471: The longest-serving African American member of Congress in history. After serving in the Korean War , Conyers became active in the civil rights movement . He also served as an aide to Congressman John Dingell before winning election to the House in 1964 . He co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969 and established a reputation as one of the most left-wing members of Congress. Conyers joined
1734-522: The matter, Hastings and Berman said: After reviewing the information gathered during the inquiry, and in light of Representative Conyers's cooperation with the inquiry, we have concluded that this matter should be resolved through the issuance of this public statement and the agreement by Representative Conyers to take a number of additional, significant steps to ensure that his office complies with all rules and standards regarding campaign and personal work by congressional staff. Conyers repeatedly introduced
1785-588: The memory hole during wall-to-wall coverage of the Michael Jackson trial and a runaway bride ." Conyers and others reportedly considered sending a congressional investigation delegation to London. In May 2005, Conyers released a report about voting irregularities in the state of Ohio during the 2004 U.S. presidential election called What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election . Some of
1836-426: The proposed resolution in 1989, and has stated his intention to annually propose this act until it is approved and passed. Since 1997, the bill has been designated "H.R. 40", most recently, H.R. 40 , alluding to the promise of " forty acres and a mule ". If passed, the commission would explore the longstanding effects of slavery on today's society, politics, and economy. "My bill does four things: It acknowledges
1887-587: The ranking Democratic member on the House Committee on the Judiciary from 1995 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2017. He served as chairman of that committee from 2007 to 2011 and as chairman of the House Oversight Committee from 1989 to 1995. As the longest-serving current member of Congress, Conyers was the dean of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017. In March 2016, Rep. Conyers and Representative Hank Johnson introduced legislation to protect consumers' access to civil courts. The bill
1938-567: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MI-1&oldid=1146836687 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michigan%27s 1st congressional district Michigan's 1st congressional district
1989-495: The west side of the state. 46°09′26″N 86°26′13″W / 46.15722°N 86.43694°W / 46.15722; -86.43694 John Conyers John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929 – October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. Conyers was the sixth-longest serving member of Congress and
2040-433: Was a Detroit-based congressional district. From the election of Republican John B. Sosnowski in 1925 until 1964, the former 1st district was represented by only one non- Polish-American politician, Robert H. Clancy . Along with Sosnowski, 6 Polish-Americans served as the 1st district's representatives elected 7 times, since 1925. The other strong Polish Michigan congressional districts were the 15th district (where half of
2091-580: Was also the last member of the large Democratic freshman class of 1964 who was still serving in the House. In May 2014, Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett determined that Conyers had not submitted enough valid nominating petition signatures to appear on the August 2014 Primary Election ballot. Two of his workers circulating petitions were not themselves registered voters at the time, which was required under Michigan law. But on May 23, Federal District Judge Matthew Leitman issued an injunction placing Conyers back on
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2142-480: Was considered an elite one, as Judiciary ranked behind only Ways and Means and Appropriations in terms of the number of Members who sought assignment there. According to the National Journal , Conyers has been considered, with Pete Stark , John Lewis , Jim McDermott , and Barbara Lee , to be one of the most liberal members of Congress for many years. Rosa Parks , known for her prominent role in
2193-596: Was defeated in the primary both times. Conyers served as the ranking Democratic member on the House Committee on the Judiciary from 1995 to 2007 and again from 2011 to 2017. He served as chairman of that committee from 2007 to 2011 and as chairman of the House Oversight Committee from 1989 to 1995. As the longest-serving current member of Congress, Conyers was the dean of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017. By November 2017, he
2244-577: Was elected to congress from the 1st district, a position he would hold until the 1st was removed from Detroit. After 1992, the 1st district covered land in the UP and Northern Michigan. Most of this territory had been known as the 11th district from 1892 to 1992. The 1st from 1992 to 2002 was similar to the present district, except that it did not extend nearly as far south along Lake Michigan , while it took in Traverse City and some surrounding areas on
2295-442: Was entitled the "Restoring Statutory Rights Act". Conyers served more than 50 years in Congress, becoming the sixth-longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history ; he was the longest-serving African American member of Congress. By November 2017, Conyers was the last remaining member of Congress who had served since the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson . Conyers was critical of President Richard Nixon during his tenure. He
2346-464: Was listed as number 13 on President Nixon's enemies list during the president's 1969–74 presidential tenure. The president's Chief Counsel described him as "coming on fast", and said he was "emerging" as a "black anti-Nixon spokesman". Conyers, who voted to impeach Nixon in July 1974, wrote at the time, My analysis of the evidence clearly reveals an Administration so trapped by its own war policy and
2397-477: Was present in Selma, Alabama , on October 7, 1963, for the voter registration drive known as Freedom Day. In 1964, Conyers ran for an open seat in what was then the 1st District, and defeated Republican Robert Blackwell with 84% of the vote. He was reelected 13 times with even larger margins. After the 1990 United States census , Michigan lost a congressional district, and there was redistricting. Conyers's district
2448-511: Was renamed as the 13th district . In total, Conyers won re-election twenty-five times and was serving in his twenty-sixth term. He was the dean of the House as longest-serving current member, the third longest-serving member of the House in history , and the sixth longest-serving member of Congress in history . He was the second-longest serving member of either house of Congress in Michigan's history, trailing only his former boss, Dingell. He
2499-410: Was renumbered as the 14th district . In 1992, Conyers won re-election to his 15th term in his new district, which included western suburbs of Detroit, with 82% of the vote against Republican nominee John Gordon. He won re-election another nine times after that. His worst re-election performance was in 2010 , when he got 77% of the vote against Republican nominee Don Ukrainec . In 2013, his district
2550-487: Was the last remaining member of Congress who had served since the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson . In the wake of allegations that he had sexually harassed female staff members and secretly used taxpayer money to settle a harassment claim, Conyers resigned from Congress on December 5, 2017. Conyers was born and raised in Detroit, the son of Lucille Janice (Simpson) and John James Conyers, a labor leader. Among his siblings
2601-572: Was younger brother William Conyers. After graduating from Northwestern High School , Conyers served in the Michigan National Guard from 1948 to 1950; the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1954; and the U.S. Army Reserves from 1954 to 1957. Conyers served for a year in Korea during the Korean War as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was awarded combat and merit citations. After his active military service, Conyers pursued
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