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John Conyers, left, and Monica Conyers. As Monica Conyers resignation from the Detroit City Council becomes official today, her husband, U.S. Rep.

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Sen. Maria Cantwell listens to the concerns of an elderly friend after hosting a 90-minute panel on health care reform Wednesday at Southwest Washington Medical Center.

Even I am getting tired of writing about ACORN today , but another story came over the transom.

During George W. Bush's successful 8-year run as President, one of his chief antagonists was Michigan senator John Conyers.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking at way to make the law prohibiting gays from serving openly in the armed forces "more humane" until Congress eventually repeals it.

Monica Conyers, President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bribery, a charge which could land her in jail for up to five years.

He may have faded from the national political scene a year ago, after his dark-horse presidential run came to naught, but Rep.

Convicted felon Monica Conyers has resigned from the Detroit City Council, effective July 6. Conyers' letter of resignation was received Monday morning by Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey.

Monica Conyers has admitted accepting bribes in a sludge deal, but the Detroit councilwoman's political adviser and onetime chief of staff told the Free Press she received cash and jewelry for brokering other questionable transactions.

Who told House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Michigan Democrat, to lay off the radical activist group ACORN? The 23-term congressman, who has been enamored of the aggressively partisan group for years, gave a truly odd explanation last week when he reaffirmed a May 4 statement that a probe of ACORN "appears unwarranted at this time." ...

A Detroit councilwoman married to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, the latest batch of bad news for a city already shaken by scandals and financial peril.

Detroit -- The 14th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization has passed a unanimous resolution backing Congressman John Conyers Jr., whose wife pleaded guilty in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit bribery.

We're starting to see what happens when Michigan's notoriously uncollaborative public officials actually pull together and fight for the state's economic interests.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, spent Friday casting a long series of votes and avoiding reporters' questions as news spread at the Capitol about his city councilwoman wife's guilty plea.

So, in the meantime, they keep themselves busy by getting busy -- usually with women not their own wives .

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea.

I think it's just automatic now. When a high-profile Republican gets into trouble, Fox News steps in to mislead their sheep viewers by labeling them as Democrats.

With unanimous consent, the U.S. Senate apologized Thursday on behalf of the nation to African Americans for the legacy of slavery and the enforced system of segregation known as Jim Crow.

And now another episode of Name That Party where the news customer reads a story and tries his darndest to discern from what party a scandal plagued politician hails.