kucinich's resolution. it's been amazing to me that i have heard so much debate today about nato's feelings, nato's feelings, how about the feelings of the american people? how about the people that pay the taxes in this country? how about their feelings? isn't it time that their feelings come first? that's why i sincerely believe and i want to be on the floor today becausi thank mr. boehner, the speaker of the house, for presenting the resolution, but that does not do it. that does not do it. the constitution says that mr. kucinich is right with this resolution. the american people say that he isight with this resolution. the american people are calling on the congress to meet their constitutional duties and to vote for this resolution. madam speaker, before i close, i want to say again to mr. kucinich, thank you for taking the lead on this. this should actually be the only resolution we are voting on, but let's show the american people we believe in the constitution and let's support mr. kucinich's resolu

kucinich's resolution. it's been amazing to me that i have heard so much debate today about nato's feelings, nato's feelings, how about the feelings of the american people? how about the people that pay the taxes in this country? how about their feelings? isn't it time that their feelings come first? that's why i sincerely believe and i want to be on the floor today because i thank mr. boehner, the speaker of the house, for presenting the resolution, but that does not do it. that does not do it. the constitution says that mr. kucinich is right with this resolution. the american people say that he is right with this resolution. the american people are calling on the congress to meet their constitutional duties and to vote for this resolution. madam speaker, before i close, i want to say again to mr. kucinich, thank you for taking the lead on this. this should actually be the only resolution we are voting on, but let's show the american people we believe in the constitution and let's support mr. kucinich's re

kucinich: another 30 seconds. mr. sherman: the boehner resolution just grudgingly acquiesces to an imperial vision of the presidency. the kucinich resolution enforces the war powers act and starts us on a war powers act process. we owe it to our fighting men and women that when they risk their lives they do so pursuant to our laws and our constitution. when they risk their lives for an extended period of time, they do so not because of a decision of one individual, but rather because of the decision of the representatives of all of the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: yes, madam speaker. i'm pleased to yield to the ranking member of the appropriations committee, the gentleman from washington, mr. dicks. three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington is recogniz

. >> ohio congressman dennis kucinich, a democrat, filed a lawsuit this week against u.s. president barack obama, a democrat. kucinich and nine other house members are suing the president for violating the war powers act. the 1973 war powers act calls on the president to notify congress when u.s. troops are in combat situations and to withdraw them within 60 days of the notification unless both houses of congress declare war or otherwise approve the use of the troops. the 10 lawmakers argue that the president violated this war powers act by not receiving congressional approval for u.s. military actions against libyan leader moammar gaddafi. president obama's 60 days safe harbor period ended without any authorization from congress. north carolina republican congressman walter jones says the president not only violated the war powers act, but also the u.s. constitution. >> where and when does the constitution say to a president, you may bypass congress and send millions of dollars of bombs and equipment over to invade a country that is not a threat to you? >> on wednesday, p

kucinich talked about that he met with members of the opposition. to go to the military hospitals where we know protestors who have been injured are forced to go and in the area where they are not allowed to go to the regular hospitals. so he wasn't in the areas where he was actually meeting with protestors, correct? >> reporter: the opponents of the regime that congressman kucinich spoke with probably are those that are tolerated by the government right now. but arwa and i have spent several days now just trying to persuade a few people to speak off camera to us, just the audio of their interviews. so it's nearly impossible to say that anyone at this stage can mean all the opposition in syria. >> if the congressman is right and he did not say all these things, then this would seem to be a clear example of yet again the syrian government media -- controlled media putting out fake stories, making up things. i mean, literally making up quotes and putting words into a congressman's mouth. >> well, when you look -- when you look at the quote on the news

democratic congressman dennis kucinich of ohio. congressman kucinich, i want to start with you. you filed this lawsuit over libya. the president sent up a packet of information tonight including a legal memo asserting the administration is not in violation of the war powers resolution and he says what's happening in libya does not meet the bar for hostilities abroad. do you agree? >> no. our lawsuit, by the way, address it is war powers act and assert that the president violated both constitution and the war powers act and not getting approval from congress within the requisite 60 day. >> you are not swayed tonight at all. >> no. i have seen the argument already. it doesn't pass legal muster. i think that when we get to court with this if we can get standing, we will win. >> senator, do you share that opinion? is the commander in chief of the united states in violation of the law? >> yes. i agree completely with congressman kucinich. i think people on the left and right can both believe in the constitution and our founders were specific. they wanted the initiation of war to be b

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host: another e-mail for you, congressman kucinich. guest: it does, but it still does not trust the constitution. the un security council cannot determine for the united states when we go to war and neither can nato. this constitution has presidents over all of it. that's what this discussion is so important. these are the first principles. when the founders came together, they were not talking werenato or the un -- there were not talking about nato or the u.n. these principles were designed to america big a to adapt in the future. here we are in 2011 deciding whether or not the founders when they drafted the constitution and said congress shall have the power to declare war, that statement that and did not mean some executive later on determines that he or she can appropriate that power and that's ok. no, it's very clear that based on their experience dealing with the king of england that they did not want to repeat that experience in having an executive or a monarchs waging war without any consent. host: lawmakers suing to end the u.

if we do i think we can win this state because it's true congressman dennis kucinich of ohio thanks so much for taking the time today we appreciate it and we're going to have much more on the resignation of a congressman anthony weiner just now that's right he gave him a vow to meet it and then just cut him off just like nancy pelosi but it's really mind boggling there were an economic crisis the illegal wars are being waged on behalf of the american people but the media doesn't want to talk about any of that i guess maybe that's what happens when you're a corporate owned you know what to anger the corporate overlords by pointing out the fact that it's corporations those military contractors the benefit for waging on stop wars or maybe the fact that corporate profits are soaring all the rest of america suffers you see if you just don't say it maybe the american people will never know those problems and all that corruption exists to just show taking the wiener and everything else will go away. yes emory here in the same thing that you are if you can just see a little bit of this room i

kucinich, is recognized for one minute. mr. kucinich: i want to thank mr. rooney anthank my colleagues. i think this has been a very importandebate for this country and for our constitution. i'm opposed to this war and want to end it. i think mr. rooney's bill is a powerful stp in the direction of ending the -- step in the direction of ending the war, but it's not the only step we should take. it's the purse step. the first step is a vote for mr. rooney's. you limit the war, stop the mbat ops. then the secondtep would be to vote on a defense appropriations amendment that would strike all funding for the war. so we take two steps here. the first step today. and we have me of the best people inhis congress have been in this debate today and they don't agree with mr. rooney's bill, but what they have said is that this bill would end the mission in libya. and it's said if you don't have the ability to suppress, you couldn't continue th the bombing campaign. so tse are people on our side of the aisle who want to defeat this bill. they have made the argument, i t

kucinich. mr. kucinich: i would beg to -- prior to the distinguished gentlelady from texas, because there are those of us who oppose this bill in principle an we believe we are fighting for justice as well. i want to state that if you believe the war should end, then at least believe we should limit it today. that's what mr. rooney does. i oppose this war, it's unconstitutional, it's in violation of statute, and there's a way to end the war, vote for rooney step one and the kucinich-amash amendment which defunds the d.o.d. bill, you can do that when we come back. but to claim that the arab league is somehow asking for us to continue this attack on libya is plain false. the fact of the matter is we have al jazeera reporting that italy's foreign minister and outgoing head of the arab league have called for a halt to hostilities in libya. it was reported that two days ago, the outgoing head of the arab league, said now it's time to do whatever we can to reach a political solution and that has to start

congressman kucinich, why did kucinich, why did you follow suit in several court? guest: ne constitutional issue has to be brought to the federal court if they are -- any constitutional issue has to be brought to the federal court if you want to get any issue resolved. in this case it is our contention that the president of the united states violated article 1, section 8 of the constitution when he proceeded to order an attack against libya absent a vote by the united states congress. furthermore, we say he violated the statute of the war powers act which requires him to come to congress within 60 days for approval once initiating possibilities. we also say that even though the president had approval of nato and of the u.n. security council, those two institutions cannot trump the united states constitution and the fact that the president has to come back and get approval. finally, peter, the issue of cost. where is this money coming from? we have not appropriated money for this war. and what the united states of being in the so much fiscal difficulty, it really be

kucinich does.hat the resolution, my friends in the republican leadership, has drafted does is nothing. your resolution doesn't even have to go to the senate. it won't go to the senate. it directs the president to do a whole bunch of things that, quite frankly, he can ignore because this bill doesn't mean anything. what this is, let's be clear about what this is, this is a way for some of my friends on the other side of the aisle to cover their backsides. to be able to say to their constituents, we did something tough on libya. let me read to you how tough the language is in the bill that the speaker of the house has drawn up. all the tough language. sounds good except when you look a little bit more closely, you realize this is an h.res. which doesn't mean a anything. so if you are into symbolism, if you are into therapy, vote for the boehner resolution. if you are interested in action, if you are interested in actually living up to our responsibilities as lawmakers in the united states congress, t

kucinich: mr. speaker, good morning.nanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, mr. kucinich, is recognized for one minute. mr. kucinich: we've been in iraq for eight leers and a long-term cost of at least $8 trillion. those who said we would be in libya for days are now wanting to extend it for a year. it is surreal that we are considering this war at a time when the government is collapsing in debt. those who told us the war in libya was to save civilian lives shifted to regime change. we launched hundreds of cruise missiles and dropped tons of bombs on libya. since nato took over, the u.s. has struck from the air at least 90 times including drone attacks. but these are not hostilities, claims the white house. so what business is it of congress? we must put an end not only to the war in libya but we must put an end to the thinking that the constitution is a door mat and our constituents must simply bear the consequences of the misguide

stand by mark i want to bring in ohio congressman dennis kucinich it's good to see you congressman as always obviously anthony wiener was a very forceful voice and the liberal and of the party your reaction and does this indeed mean that you can get on with the business of congress. you know his whole conspiracy. what really war wieder gave me this is absurd listen to what happened with the congressman did actually get in a few words about the war. if we do i think we can wear it on him and destroy the constitution congressman dennis kucinich of ohio thanks so much for taking the time today we appreciate it and we're going to have much more on the resignation of a congressman anthony weiner just now that's right she gave him a vow to meet it and then just cut him off just like nancy pelosi and it's really mind boggling there were an economic crisis the illegal wars are being waged on behalf of the american people but the media doesn't want to talk about any of that i guess maybe that's what happens when you're a corporate owned you don't want to anger the corporate overlords by pointi

. >> i don't see that happening, but there is consistency on the part of dennis kucinich and walter johns here, that they took that position under the previous administration. what i find rather disturbing or rather fascinating is to watch these people readjust, whether it is john boehner becoming a boarding and supporter of the war powers act or the democrats -- born-again a supporter of the war powers act or the democrats who railed about the need for the war powers act under george bush saying this is not really a military action. >> even though the drones worked pretty well, i cannot help but believe there will come a time when we regret the ease. we aren't trying to assassinate gaddafi, although we don't quite add that -- admit that. >> we are not. nato is. >> but we provide 75% of nato. nato is us. although these things can work, i have an uneasy feeling that the time is going to come when we regret having been quite so cavalier about it. >> nato is more kabuki >-- us or nato is more kabuki. dennis kucinich, dovish democrat, gave a backhanded compliment to the constitutional , asncy

kucinich made it clear today he will offer -- >> mr.cinich made it clear to you offer an amendment that would prohibit funding for anything in libya. many of the republicans opposed the authorizing bill that was modeled again by senator mccain they said, we should not abandon our allies and the support of the work we are doing in libya, but they did not like the way the president was doing it. we have yet to see if they will cut off support for spending. i also think there'll be some language on afghanistan and a variety of other issues in terms of the overall level of spending. >> i wanted to ask you about the war powers act. there are some who say it is time to revisit the way the war powers act is structured. some have said that our definitions of war are obsolete and that leaders around the world are not doing that anymore. >> the way the constitution was set up in the first place was almost purposely ambiguous. if congress has the right to declare war. if war is -- war is nowhere defined in the constitution. the president is the co

kucinich. mr. kucinich: i would beg to -- prior to the distinguished gentlelady from texas, because there are those of us who oppose this bill in principle an we believe we are fighting for justice as well. i want to state that if you believe the war should end, then at least believe we should limit it today. that's what mr. rooney does. i oppose this war, it's unconstitutional, it's in violation of statute, and there's a way to end the war, vote for rooney step one and the kucinich-amash amendment which defunds the d.o.d. bill, you can do that when we come back. but to claim that the arab league is somehow asking for us to continue this attack on libya is plain false. the fact of the matter is we have al jazeera reporting that italy's foreign minister and outgoing head of the arab league have called for a halt to hostilities in libya. it was reported that two days ago, the outgoing head of the arab league, said now it's time to do whatever we can to reach a political solution and that has to start

kucinich. mr.ld beg to -- prior to the distinguished gentlelady from texas, because there are those of us who oppose this bill in principle an we believe we are fighting for justice as well. i want to state that if you believe the war should end, then at least believe we should limit it today. that's what mr. rooney does. i oppose this war, it's unconstitutional, it's in violation of statute, and there's a way to end the war, vote for rooney step one and the kucinich-amash amendment which defunds the d.o.d. bill, you can do that when we come back. but to claim that the arab league is somehow asking for us to continue this attack on libya is plain false. the fact of the matter is we have al jazeera reporting that italy's foreign minister and outgoing head of the arab league have called for a halt to hostilities in libya. it was reported that two days ago, the outgoing head of the arab league, said now it's time to do whatever we can to reach a political solution and that has to start with a cease-fi

i think so i had a chance to speak with congressman dennis kucinich last week about his he's one of the authors of this bill one of the sponsors of this bill and he was adamant about the fact that he being a democrat that his democratic president was not following the law and that congress should have been informed much for fully about this operation but again we get into the situation of the united states sort of having one foot in this in this conflict another foot out which i think the president barack obama is depending on that kind of thinking that kind of logic to justify the presence of of american influence in these nato strikes is that decision by the lower house. not exactly representing what the american people are thinking at the moment because obviously they're saying about we can't have the authority but they are saying let's carry on with the funding is the american taxpayer getting a little fed up now with the funding of overseas conflicts. well again that's a great question because in this country a lot of talk shows american talk shows that many people are saying a ver

kucinich. mr.ould beg to -- prior to the distinguished gentlelady from texas, because there are those of us who oppose this bill principle an we believe we are fighting for justice as well. i want to state that if you believe the war should end, then at least believe we should limit it today. that's what mr. rooney does. i oppose this war, it's unconstitutional, it's in violation of statute, and there's a way to end the war, vote for rooney step one . . amendment which defunds the d.o.d. bill, you can do that when we come back. but to claim that the arab league is somehow asking for us to continue this attack on libya is plain false. the fact of the matter is we have . and outgoing head of the arab league have called for a halt to hostilities in libya. it was reported that two days ago, the outgoing head of the arab leagu said now it's time to do whatever we can to reach a litical solution and that has to start with a cease-fire under international position. you don't have the arab league here sayi

they certainly didn't want to lose the second one, and i will say, you mentioned dennis kucinich and his effort coming up after july 4. he should have an amendment on a defense spending bill that will completely cut off spending. >> brown: that's still to come. >> still to come. 144 republicans votedly for the defund, this partial defund, many of them not because-- many of them, you know, didn't vote for it because it wasn't strong enough. when a full defund come,how many member will vote for something that's as strong as it conclude, choking off funding. where will the chips fall on that. >> brown: let me ask you about the republicans. yesterday john boehner made a statement to sort of reassure, i guess, nato allies that it was a symbolic gesture, that the u.s. forces will still be there. so they were playing an interesting game in all this as well, right sqloo domestic politics clashes with foreign policy, leaders have to do this. the speaker knows that even if a defund had passed the house tcouldn't pass the senate skrks even if it pass the the senate, this is a bill. the presiden

they will not explain that dennis kucinich is a marginal member of congress. with all due respect.etimes i think foreign policy is too serious to be left to members of congress. it sounds anti-democratic in spirit you can't send amateur congressmen coming in and looking around for a day or two for a few hours and then coming and pronouncing on very complicated matters. >> when you spoke with dennis kucinich, did he say he was coming from washington with a message from anyone from the u.s. government, the obama administration? or did he just say he was there on his own. >> he said he was there on his own. he said he did not speak for the obama administration. this was a fact-finding mission. he hadn't written his report yet, but what i found interesting is that he said he met with members of the opposition, but here in syria, members of the opposition often times, those who haven't been vetted by the government or authorized to gather in the way that the opposition members that gathered in the damascus hotel did, don't come forward. they still are very much afraid for their own safe

and john boehner you see congressman kucinich wrote a resolution to remove all u.s. troops from libya within fifteen days that vote failed the house hundred forty eight two hundred sixty five after being postponed by boehner earlier this week yeah more spineless politicians they just can't say no to another u.s. war now the week a resolution that one came from john boehner himself and his resolution is directed at the president not to deploy to establish or maintain ground troops in the country the only stipulation would be if american forces needed to be rescued and that one passed with a whopping sixty eight to one forty five you know it's really funny because the best way to make sure that there are no troops on the ground and make sure that no americans are in harm's way you'd think would be to cancel the whole damn thing to actually go after the president call him out on starting an entire war illegally but no instead republicans chose to just publicly show once again that they don't trust him at his word because remember obama has said since day one that there

before we go ahead to ed henry, i want to replay some of my interview with congressman kucinich.cans and democrats, believe president obama violated the war powers acts. watch what congressman kucinich told me. >> i want to back up and go back to my question about boots on the ground, again the white house saying no boots on the ground. the u.s. playing a support -- >> it's a constitutional -- >> let me ask you, do you have information that perhaps the white house doesn't have with regard to u.s. forces in country. >> this isn't about footwear. it's about constitution of the united states. >> sir, i took at look at this 36-page suit. you specifically cite examples of different members within the u.s. -- >> i don't know where you are coming from, but we initiated a war against libya, no question about that. to say just because we don't have boots on the ground, it's not a war, huh? there's bombing that's occurred. we've had planes over there. we've got ships offshore that launched attacks. you -- you can't claim that this isn't a war. >> sir, i'm not claiming that. i'm reporting w

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kucinich and mr. kelly and mr. johnson. mr.owbarger, throughout this process what kind of interaction was there between the auto task force and -- because you were heading the pension guarantee board then. throughout this process you were involved with the delphi and this process, so what kind of interaction took place between the two of you? is. >> in regard to general motors? >> in regard to both, delphi/general motors overall. >> my recollection was that very early in the process pbgc had a conversation with mr. ratner, i believe mr. bloom was invite today that meeting but was held up at another occasion, at which we discussed the consequences of a general motors failure on the pension system of general motorses and what the impact of that might be on the pension insurance system -- >> what discussion did they have with you relative to the hourly being topped off and not the salary? is. >> none. >> any, any comments, any correspondence that they gave you on that specific question? >> i don't recall any, no. >> okay. ranking

for a little old dennis kucinich.my favorite political bomb burst occurs of all time said, "dennis kucinich, 0.0004% of the population cannot be wrong." and by the way, he has been talking about moving from ohio to washington state just to run for congress. he is not a leader. nobody is going to vote for him. not even within his own party are they going to vote for him. i had friends who were hard-core kucinich people who turned and got behind obama because they realized simply that kucinich could not win. we need to get behind people who can win. it does not do any good to spend this time and effort if we do not have people that can stand in the public square and influence people. when they do everything from twitter 2 facebook 2 public debate, we need someone who can influence others. that 20% who says, may not agree with everything that he or she says, but i can follow them. there are three qualities to a leader, based on aristotle and rhetoric. ethos, whats called ito' we call integrity. we have to have people wit

area of all this is that dennis kucinich, very dovish liberal democrat who is suing over this, the libya war and the non- consultation, acknowledged that the bushes, father and son, had consulted and not approval from congress in advance. >> in decisive, but he did pull the trigger on osama bin laden -- >> what president would not have? >> excuse me -- >> come to you and said -- >> didn't president clinton had a chance to pull the trigger? >> the decisions he made a leading up to bin laden were the most difficult and gutsiest he had seen from any president. on what charles said about libya, certainly we would get a better position if, after the attack, he had gone and gotten a resolution from congress approving that. it shows the wisdom of doing that when you still got some support. by charles had a very thoughtful column about this whole issue -- column.es' [unintelligible] >> with that kind of endorsement, i may have to reconsider. >> the president received from congress a resolution that calls for regime change in iraq. that was already on the table. you have to give the bushes credit

. >> reporter: congressman kucinich is also taking action. he and nine other lawmakers have filed suit against the white house to try to bring an end to u.s. involvement in libya and speaker boehner says he may pursue a path of trying to withhold funds for the mission. >> kristen welker at the white house tonight. >>> if you were watching last night, then you know, the good news from last night was this. the boston bruins are bringing the stanley cup home to boston for the first time in 39 years. roughly two generations. they won game seven and the cup last night and there was big celebration in that big hockey town. the bad news, there was trouble in canada. when the game ended in vancouver and the hometown canucks lost. violence broke out in the streets. someone in the crowd held up a sign that said riot 2011 and that's what the crowd did. now that the smoke has cleared, across canada today there's anger, sadness and embarrassment. while canadians take their hockey very seriously, this was something else entirely. >> the streets and bars we

. >> one of every liberal member, democratic congressman dennis kucinich, proposing a withdrawal from libya. we are told that the piggyback is empty and we have to do something about national security, we're told that national security requires a presence in iraq, afghanistan, now libya, secret meetings in pakistan. voters are getting restless. >> in part because the president, the one who is involved us in the big, has yet to give us a coherent explanation of what -- it would involve us in libya, has yet to give us according explanation of what it is we are after and how we will get their. america initiating a war in libya -- america-supported action, we were the main thrust, and then withdrawing to the rear, allowing europe, which cannot defeat half of libya, to carry on a mission that is going on and on. if the reason for the mission was humanitarian, and i respect that, what we have done by withdrawing, starting and withdrawing partially, is a prolonged agony and the bleeding and the killing. >> i will argue with that completely. that is not the point at all. there is the humanita

that is exactly what we see with dennis kucinich.le tell us that redistricting is the only enterprise where it is fair to compare dennis kucinich and lebron james. leaving ohio is no guarantee of winning and no matter where does this -- kucinich goes, he will be competitive. that is the reality we move to a new state to run. i don't remember when the last time this was done there is a long line of politicians who have risen up through the rank- and-file of state politics and have an advantage because they have their organization back home and voters reject the carpetbagger label. dennis kucinich has been looking at one of washington state's new seats in congress. we're not sure what that state will look like because the washington commission has not read from the lines. could be a case of a state where a candidate is running for something that does not exist yet. host: a link is available to our website and you can check out various states and the seven congressional districts at the cook political report. let me ask about new york s

a chance to send an even stronger message the house debated a resolution from congressman dennis kucinich that calls for an immediate end to the u.s. involvement didn't leap year and the majority of lawmakers again though they know who that proposal nevertheless the lawmakers don't like being ignored but even those who truly want to stand up against the military actions in libya there is little they can do as one congressman said you can do resolutions until you are blue in the face but still be ignored by the white house but it seems it's not just resolutions that can be more of a.