[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2810 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2810

  To designate the Federal building located at 985 Michigan Avenue in 
      Detroit, Michigan, as the ``John Conyers Federal Building''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 2023

Mr. Thanedar (for himself, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, and 
  Mr. Ivey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To designate the Federal building located at 985 Michigan Avenue in 
      Detroit, Michigan, as the ``John Conyers Federal Building''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Congressman John James Conyers, Jr., was born in 
        Detroit, Michigan in 1929.
            (2) Conyers served in the Michigan National Guard from 1948 
        to 1950, the United States Army from 1950 to 1954 (1 year of 
        which he was an officer in the Korean War with the Corps of 
        Engineers), and the Army Reserves from 1954 to 1957.
            (3) Conyers resumed his studies at Wayne State University 
        and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and Bachelor of Laws in 
        1958.
            (4) Conyers was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, 
        being present in Selma, Alabama on October 7, 1963, for the 
        Freedom Day voter registration drive.
            (5) Conyers was elected to the United States House of 
        Representatives in 1964 and was reelected 25 times.
            (6) Conyers was the first African-American Dean of the 
        United States House of Representatives, having been the 
        longest-serving member from 2015 to 2017.
            (7) Conyers was the longest-serving African-American member 
        of the United States House of Representatives, the third 
        longest-serving member of the United States House of 
        Representatives, and the sixth longest-serving member of 
        Congress in history.
            (8) Conyers was the second-longest serving member of the 
        congressional delegation of Michigan, trailing only Congressman 
        John Dingell.
            (9) Conyers was one of the 13 founding members of the 
        Congressional Black Caucus and was considered the Dean of the 
        group.
            (10) Conyers was the first African American to serve on the 
        Judiciary Committee.
            (11) Conyers was the first member to introduce the 
        ``Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for America 
        Americans Act'', which calls for the establishment of a 
        commission to research the history of slavery in the United 
        States and its effects on current society.
            (12) Conyers introduced the United States National Health 
        Care Act, which calls for the creation of a universal single-
        payer health care system in the United States, in which the 
        government would provide every resident health care free of 
        charge.
            (13) For 52 years, Conyers served his country in Congress 
        and became an acclaimed lawmaker and civil rights icon with a 
        strong reputation that extended far beyond Michigan.
            (14) Conyers always displayed advocacy on behalf of civil 
        rights, social justice, and workers' rights.
            (15) At the end of his political tenure, Conyers faced 
        accusations of sexual harassment. Fully recognizing the pain 
        that those failures caused, Conyers' legacy as a champion of 
        civil rights and social justice remains a significant part of 
        American history.
            (16) Conyers resigned from Congress on December 5, 2017.
            (17) Conyers continued to live in Detroit, Michigan, until 
        his death on October 27, 2019, at the age of 90.
            (18) Above all else, Congressman Conyers was a loving and 
        devoted leader and a fighter for his community.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION.

    To designate the Federal building located at 985 Michigan Avenue in 
Detroit, Michigan, as the ``John Conyers Federal Building''.

SEC. 3. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the Federal building and United States 
courthouse referred to in section 2 shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ``John Conyers Federal Building''.
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