John Conyers: Bill is a serious attack on transparency . CNN — One morning, just over a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt threw his breakfast sausages out of a White House window.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., announced on Dec. 5 that he was immediately retiring from the House. The announcement came after multiple Democratic lawmakers asked the embattled congressman to resign ...

The Clinton campaign also did not comment on the Conyers bill. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), another 2008 White House hopeful, supports the Conyers measure and a formal apology for slavery.

Conyers is co-sponsoring a bill that would strike down the federal ban on marijuana possession and allow Americans to grow and sell marijuana in states where it's legal.

Conyers introduced the bill proposing the King holiday on April 8, 1968 — four days after King was killed. Ronald Reagan didn’t sign the law making it a federal holiday until 1983.

Westland Mayor Bill Wild has officially placed his name in the hat to succeed John Conyers in Michigan's 13th U.S. Congressional district. Wild said the vacant seat — held by Conyers for 53 ...

Should gun owners with a concealed permit have the right to carry their weapons in other states? The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to consider that question today.

Retired Congressman William (Bill) Clay (D-Missouri) served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years with retired U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), who died Sunday, October 27 at age ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Democratic New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman about the effort to reintroduce H.R. 40, a bill that would create a task force to study reparations for Black Americans.