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President Barack Obama's Justice Department has changed little from the Bush Justice Department because the same people are still running the show, says former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

An impromptu memorial of artificial flowers and dozens of stuffed animals remained Monday near strands of yellow crime-scene tape in a vacant lot where relatives say 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney Jr.'s father shot him in the head while he begged for mercy.

U.S. Rep. John Conyers is on Barack Obama 's case again, this time saying the president has failed to show enough leadership on health care and suggesting he's been "bowing down to every nutty right-wing proposal" during the debate.

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Rep. John Conyers in Huffington Post:"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," said Conyers.

Rep. John Conyers blasted President Barack Obama today, accusing him of "bowing down" to the right.

Michigan workers eligible for extended unemployment benefits recently approved by Congress will soon get application instructions in the mail.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has set a modern record for sluggishness in the impeachment proceedings against federal District Judge Thomas Porteous of Metairie.

November 12, 2009: Minority Media and Telecommunications Council Exec. Director David Honig and Spanish Broadcasters Association Director Frank Montero have written to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers to ask that their organizations be represented at a discussion on the Performance Rights ...

Just days after a visiting professor at Williams College pleaded guilty to charges of fraud in federal court, the aftermath of his conviction is still being felt on campus and has led to the postponement of Monday's Congressional Black Caucus symposium.

A judge ordered the maximum five-year prison sentence Friday for a key figure in a corrupt city sludge-hauling deal and likened the FBI's ongoing investigation to a hero in Greek mythology who clears manure from a king's stables in one day.

Because an outrageous amendment was attached to the House health reform bill, it gives hope to the notion that the disastrous so-called health reform legislation in Congress will die.

A senior policy fellow for Rep. Danny Davis has pleaded guilty to defrauding the government and private lenders of nearly $822,000 by using aliases to obtain student loans and more than 90 credit cards.

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., suggested Monday that President Barack Obama should use brute political force to gain Senate approval of the health care proposal agreed to Saturday by the House of Representatives.

Although not on the front burner, the effort to renew the federal government's domestic surveillance powers has Democrats grappling with a handful of dicey issues, causing some lawmakers to acknowledge that Congress might have to pass a short-term extension to buy more time.

The most senior African American in Congress offered some unsolicited advice Monday to President Barack Obama on how to get his signature health care bill through a balky Senate: knock their heads together.

The debate over a plan to overhaul the nation's health care system that passed the House this weekend is now headed to Michigan.

As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Ninth District Congressman Steve Cohen testified last week before the panel's Crime Subcommittee on the need to examine racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith has told a group of legislators that he will need an ethics rule waiver to agree to their request to participate in a discussion with them and music industry representatives on the issue of royalty payment.

Reps. Gene Green and Mike Conaway have sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers asking that they be included on the upcoming November 17 meeting regarding the issue of the Performance Rights Act.