[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10661]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WAR AND WAR POWERS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Congress is awakening to its constitutional obligations 
on matters of war and peace. In the past 2 months, we have sparked a 
great debate on war and on war powers, the implications of which will 
continue to be felt in this Nation and around the world.
  Soon, the war in Libya and the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 
will go beyond foreign policy issues. They will become domestic issues, 
financial security issues. As we continue to wage these wars, more and 
more Americans will become aware that this administration has decided 
that bombing bridges in other countries is more important than building 
bridges in America with our present and new foreign adventures.
  America, under this administration, chooses war, not jobs and wealth 
building here in America; bombs, not books; financial instability, not 
Social Security; austerity, not prosperity.
  This isn't about partisan politics. This is about an administration 
that is demonstrating more of an interest in nation building abroad 
than a rebuilding of America here at home.
  It has time to change, but will it?

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