[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Today, a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress 
have introduced a privileged resolution calling for a vote in this 
Congress to end the war in Afghanistan. More than 60 percent of the 
American people want us out of there. This war is already approaching 
the cost of a half trillion dollars. We have Americans who are losing 
their jobs; their wages are being knocked down. We have Americans 
losing their homes, losing their retirement security. They can't send 
their kids to the colleges they want, and we're spending all this money 
on a war that is a waste of time, money, blood, and treasure to try to 
prop up a corrupt regime in Afghanistan. Our occupation over there is 
fueled in insurgency.
  It's time for Congress to take its constitutional responsibilities 
under Article I, section 8. We haven't really done that with respect to 
Afghanistan. It's time for us to do that. Let's have an up-or-down 
vote. That's what this resolution is about.
  I urge all Members of Congress to consider supporting the privileged 
resolution that ends the war in Afghanistan.

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