[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 24, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SPACE ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE DEVOTED TO PEACE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, this week I will offer an amendment to the 
defense authorization bill, cosponsored by the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Tierney), the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. 
Slaughter), and the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), 
which will reaffirm the policy of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Act of 1958, signed into law by President Eisenhower, that it is the 
policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted 
to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
  This amendment will reaffirm that it is U.S. policy to preserve peace 
in space by not deploying space-based weapons. Today's New York Times 
states: ``Congress and the administration need to assess whether a 
multilateral treaty to ban space weapons might not leave the Nation far 
safer than a unilateral drive to put the first weapons in space.''
  Please support my amendment, cosponsored by the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Tierney), the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. 
Slaughter), and the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller) to 
keep space devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind; 
and support H.R. 2420, now cosponsored by 28 Members of the House, 
which sets the stage for a multilateral treaty to keep space devoted to 
peaceful purposes.

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