[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 24, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            STUMBLING BLOCKS TO AMERICA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to America's 
economic recovery is that corporations can legally buy elections and 
then influence policies which move millions of jobs out of America 
which escape taxation by offshoring profits, which cash in on wars, 
which press military industrial spending through the roof.
  While we pledge allegiance to the red, white and blue, corporations, 
whose only allegiance is to green, are selling out America; and they're 
becoming ever more powerful because of a Supreme Court decision in 
Citizens United, which effectively turns this government into an 
auction where policies may go to the highest bidder.
  We must stand up for America. We must reclaim our Nation. House Joint 
Resolution 100 is a constitutional amendment which aims at taking all 
private money out of elections and returning government to the people.
  I urge my colleagues to support H.J. Res. 100 so that we can break 
the golden shackles which are imprisoning this government right now and 
so that we can get rid of corporate influence once and for all. No 
private money in elections. Support H.J. Res. 100.

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