[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13420]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. When the leadership of this House said back in October 
of 2006 that impeachment is off the table, what they did is they set 
the stage for the administration ignoring the subpoenas of the Congress 
for information. Once the administration understood that they did not 
have to comply with the law and that Congress essentially took away the 
one power that Congress has to compel the administration to respect 
Congress as a coequal branch of government, once that was taken away, 
the administration basically just decided it wasn't going to appear in 
front of Congress to answer questions, they wouldn't produce documents 
or papers that were relevant to congressional investigations.
  Congress is a coequal branch of government. It is urgent that we 
reestablish our coequality, that we create conditions of a check and 
balance of administrative abuse of power. This isn't a Republican 
matter, it is not a Democratic matter, it is a matter for our country. 
We need to have the Congress be strong. We need to hold this 
administration accountable.

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