Former US Representative John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress dies at 90
Former US Representative John Conyers addresses the audience during a program to announce the first round of loan commitments to transform older factories during a news conference at the Ford Motor Research & Innovation Center in Dearborn, Michigan June 23, 2009.
The Detroit News said Detroit police had confirmed Conyers' death. Reuters could not immediately reach a spokeswoman for the police department. In November 2017, the House Ethics Committee said it was investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Conyers, who said his office had resolved a harassment case with a payment but no admission of guilt.
The Bush administration's central justification for the war, begun in March 2003, was the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were found. But as he prepared to take over as chairman of the Judiciary Committee after Democrats regained control of the House in the November 2006 elections, Conyers said any impeachment effort against Bush was "off the table.
Conyers investigated the 2004 US presidential election in which Bush edged Democrat John Kerry, with Bush's narrow victory in Ohio proving pivotal. Conyers' report said that "numerous serious election irregularities" and Republican misconduct tilted Ohio to Bush.
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