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Post by bot on Jan 26, 2015 18:13:35 GMT -5
Representative John Conyers' 50 Years in Congress by info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) Guests, including Danny Glover, Julian Bond, and others, celebrated Representative John Conyers (D-MI) 50 years in Congress. Born in 1929, John James Conyers, Jr. was first elected in 1964 and in 2015 became the Dean of the House of Representatives, the longest serving member. During his tenure, Representative Conyers was one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus and was the first member to introduce a bill to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday. www.c-spanvideo.org/program/323623-1
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