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Cochair of the congressional progressive caucus who has led the fight with low wage workers to raise the standard of living for good paying jobs. Congressman keith ellison. I had a constituent call me the other day and he said you know, keith, ive heard some things about this Transpacific Partnership and im concerned about it, you need to send me a copy of that bill. Of course i cannot do that. Because ive never seen it. If they show you the bill at all they show you one little title of it and then you cant have stats, you cant take notes you cant do anything. This is an invisible process. Eac...

We had the honor to introduce a few people who will make some remarks to celebrate congressman conyers. First, as a tribute to congressman conyers and the way he works the way he builds strong coalitions to fight for what is right in this country there are 19 other groups that have joined i. P. S. And honoring congressman conyers here tonight. I mention them as among the hundreds of groups that have worked with the congressman over the year, that have partnered with this man for this half century. Let me mention the 19. The naacp, the sentencing project, the nation, now celebrating its 150th a...

The institute for policy studies hosted this 50minute event. Welcome to this historic evening to celebrate the first congressman to serve in congress for over 50 years, congressman john conyers. [applause] we thank pacifica radio and we thank cspan for being here so hundreds of thousands if not millions more across the country can share in this celebration. I am John Cavanagh, director of the institute for policy studies. My colleague, karen dolan and i , will be your moderators for tonight. We had the honor to introduce a few people who will make some remarks to celebrate congressman conyers....

2007 . Not at all. Not really. I have been blessed. Korea was the issue back years ago. It was. There was a nightmare that i went through. On november 30, 1950 was surrounded by tens of thousands of chinese that came from nowhere. The indictment of the whole military policy in your korea in korea, we have 90 casualties. Eople were captured screaming rockets in the air. Trumpets lowing. That you could imagine would scare the hell out of you, especially people being killed. And i just figured since we were trapped for three days and at night the chinese would tell us and inquiries if we didnt en...

Hes a members member, always available for counsel, always with an encouraging word. How many of us have benefited from hisess tute advice. This chamber his astute advice. This chamber says thank you to a man who knows how to negotiate, who knows how to legislate and who knows how to foster great change. Hes a master of the art of compromise. His service has been honorable for over half a century. Hes been indefat kabul. Hes walked forth rightly in the shoes of his father before him and he served his nation nobly in this house and the people of michigan who reelected him 30 times. His service ...