Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) may need to stage a sit-in on the House floor before a Department of Peace and Nonviolence is created.
Kucinich, newly empowered as chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vowed yesterday to hold hearings on legislation lawmakers have discussed since the dawn of the republic: a bill to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.
It seems that, like the Founding Fathers before him, Kucinich wont get past the talk even with a bit of Hollywood backing.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md. ), whose job is to manage the flow of legislation to the House floor, said that he considers Kucinich a thoughtful, substantive guy and a good friend, but that a lot of members have a lot to say about [the bill] and were going to give them a lot of time to say it.
Perhaps unintentionally, other Democrats slighted the initiative yesterday. The majority governs room assignments, and Kucinich had to hold his peace press conference in a cramped room in the Capitol basement. Meanwhile, a gathering of centrist Republicans, the Tuesday Group, had a better room despite its minority status.
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Kucinich, newly empowered as chairman of the domestic policy subcommittee on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vowed yesterday to hold hearings on legislation lawmakers have discussed since the dawn of the republic: a bill to establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.
It seems that, like the Founding Fathers before him, Kucinich wont get past the talk even with a bit of Hollywood backing.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md. ), whose job is to manage the flow of legislation to the House floor, said that he considers Kucinich a thoughtful, substantive guy and a good friend, but that a lot of members have a lot to say about [the bill] and were going to give them a lot of time to say it.
Perhaps unintentionally, other Democrats slighted the initiative yesterday. The majority governs room assignments, and Kucinich had to hold his peace press conference in a cramped room in the Capitol basement. Meanwhile, a gathering of centrist Republicans, the Tuesday Group, had a better room despite its minority status.
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