In 2003, he missed more votes during the first seven months in office than any other House lawmaker except U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., according to nonpartisan vote-tracking services.
His staff turnover is extreme. His office budget is often exhausted by December, forcing him to make employees take unpaid leave headed into the holiday season.
He has been under a House Ethics Committee inquiry that followed a 2003 Free Press report that alleged his staffers worked on political campaigns on congressional time.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
John Conyers vs.George W.Bush
The Detriot Free Press has a story on John Conyers.Near the end of the piece they lay the boom on him:
