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Kucinich Helps Find Potential Funding Alternative for Circulator Bus Program
Dec 18, 2009
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to General Manager of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Joe Calabrese recommending that he apply for a new federal grant to pay for Circulator buses. “I still hear from constituents on a daily basis who complain that the new longe...
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Kucinich Announces Credit Cards That Don’t Cost You Your Legal Rights
Dec 17, 2009
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) released the following statement:“This holiday shopping season, consumers have the choice of using credit cards that don’t take away their legal rights. Until now, all major banks have required their customers – through provisions hidden in the fine print of credi...
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Kucinich Wins $8 Million Dollars for Gulf War Illnesses Research
Dec 17, 2009
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Efforts by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to continue to help ailing veterans of the first Gulf War paid off yesterday when he won the inclusion of $8,000,000 for Gulf War Veterans Illnesses (GWVI) in H.R. 3326, the Defense Appropriations spending bill. “One in four veterans of the first Gulf Wa...
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Expanding the Debt for War and Wall Street
Dec 16, 2009
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Following a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement:“The Greatest Generation sacrificed during their lifetimes so future generations could have it better. Here, the ‘Bailout Generation’ demands the future will b...
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Kucinich Speaks Against War Appropriations Bill:
Dec 15, 2009
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Following a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement:“The word is that with over 15 million Americans out of work and desperately in need of extended unemployment benefits, Congress will put unemployment compensat...
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Early Bipartisan Support for Privileged Resolution to End War in Afghanistan
Dec 15, 2009
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Washington D.C. (December 15, 2009) – Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) today announced a quick bipartisan response to his call to introduce a privileged resolution to end the war in Afghanistan. The proposed legislation already has 12 cosponsors. The privileged resolution will require debate in the Hous...
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Kucinich: Iran Sanctions are Counterproductive
Dec 15, 2009
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Following his vote against H.R. 2194 - Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement outlining his opposition: “I strongly oppose the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009. This legislation obstructs the Obama Adminis...
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Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine
Dec 11, 2009
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“Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war’s instrumentality in the pursuit of peace and just wars. It is important for us to reflect on his words, because once we believe in the inevitability of war, war becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Once we are committed to war’s i...
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Kucinich: Why I voted No on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009
Dec 11, 2009
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After voting against H.R. 4173 – Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement:“Although I am supportive of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency as well as other provisions in the bill, ultimately I do not think this bi...
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Kucinich Challenges Linking Unemployment Benefits to War Spending:
Dec 10, 2009
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Following a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement:“According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the sharp increase in war spending is taking up a greater portion of our Gross Domestic Product, whic...
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