[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3142-3143]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  DEPARTMENT OF PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE

  (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, yesterday a bill was introduced into the 
House of Representatives that gives the promise of transforming our 
country and the world. H.R. 808 creates a Department of Peace and 
Nonviolence. It is now supported by 52 Members of the House of 
Representatives, and it is supported by groups who yesterday came to 
Washington representing 45 States. Last night, nearly 1,000 people

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came to the George Washington University campus to hear about the 
Department of Peace and the hope that it brings for America.
  Mr. Speaker, if you were to look at this clerk's desk, just around 
the corner you will see engraved right into the desk of the clerk of 
the House of Representatives the word ``peace.'' Peace is a 
foundational principle of this Congress and of this country, and the 
bill gives it a chance to have an animating power in our civic life by 
addressing the issues of domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, 
violence in the schools, racial violence, all of those concerns we have 
both domestically and internationally.
  Peace.

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