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3/12/13 - Letter from Conyers, Nadler, Scott, Watt, and Deutch Urging Justice Roberts to Support Funding for Federal Defenders

We write to express our concerns about the deleterious effects that funding cuts may have on the Federal Defender Program.

House Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment

Conyers, Cleaver Urge President to Invoke Constitutional Authority to Raise Debt

President has authority and moral obligation to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid economic catastrophe

Conyers Criticizes Ideologically Extreme “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act”

Conyers: The “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act” Enshrines Republican Ideology and Corporate Interests into the Constitution.

Republicans Make it Virtually Impossible to Repeal Special Tax Breaks for the Wealthy or Big Oil and Gas Producers, But It Would Allow Congress to Destroy Medicare or Veterans' Hospitals by Simple Majority

Judiciary Committee Republicans Defend Corporate Tax Loopholes

Conyers Fights to Protect Medicare From Republican Slash-and-Burn Budget Amendment

Conyers Offers Amendment to Exempt Medicare Program From Republicans’ Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Balance Budget

Conyers: Looming Government Shutdown Reveals House Leadership's Fiscal Irresponsibility and Willingness to Put Americans At Risk

Conyers Issues Committee Report on GOP Budget Proposals -- America On the Brink

ADVISORY: Conyers to Host Forum on the Impact of Budget Proposals on Justice, Job Creation, Public Safety, and Civil Liberties