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BeyondGeography

(39,276 posts)
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 02:21 PM Nov 2017

Congressional Black Caucus member: Conyers should step down as top Dem on House panel

Washington (CNN)Rep. Gregory Meeks, a New York Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Wednesday that his colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan should leave his post as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee as he is the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation.

"No one is exempt from bad behavior, and I think that he's agreed and I clearly see where Leader (Nancy) Pelosi has said there will be an immediate ethics committee, a review," Meeks told CNN's John Berman and Poppy Harlow. "I really think that probably the appropriate thing right now is that he should step down as the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee and be subject to this ethics investigation."

The House Ethics Committee announced on Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into allegations that Conyers, the longest-serving active member of the House, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 after allegedly sexually harassing a staffer, according to an explosive report published by BuzzFeed News. Conyers said he is "expressly and vehemently" denying any wrongdoing.

...Pressed later in the interview, Meeks said that it would "not be appropriate" for Conyers to remain the top Democrat on the committee given the multiple allegations against him. "If he defends himself and says and shows there is nothing there, then he could come back," he said. "But you can't, in my estimation, just in the scenario that we're in to be the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee at this time. I think that he should step down."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/politics/gregory-meeks-john-conyers-judiciary-committee/index.html
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Congressional Black Caucus member: Conyers should step down as top Dem on House panel (Original Post) BeyondGeography Nov 2017 OP
That's unfortunate. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2017 #1
Raul Grijalva has also called for Conyers to step down BeyondGeography Nov 2017 #2
Wow!! How the mighty have fallen. InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2017 #3

BeyondGeography

(39,276 posts)
2. Raul Grijalva has also called for Conyers to step down
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 04:14 PM
Nov 2017
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/22/john-conyers-no-judiciary-gregory-meeks-258457

“As agonizing as it might be for all of us, the ranking member needs to step down at the minimum,” said Grijalva. “And then the chips will fall from there.”
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