House Proceeding 09-08-09 on Sep 8th, 2009 :: 0:08:55 to 0:10:15
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Dennis J. Kucinich: friends of officer critenden and i urge all americans who put their lives in danger every day in order to protect us. i yield back. . mr. kucinich: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. kucinich: thank you.

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Speech By: Dennis J. Kucinich

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Dennis J. Kucinich: i want to thank the 85 members of the house who have signed on to h.r. 676, the bill which john conyers and i authored which establishes medicare for all. it's very clear that there's only one way that you can control costs and make it possible for people to have the doctor of choice, and that

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Dennis J. Kucinich: legislation, h.r. 676, accomplishes that. i would like to suggest that the underlying angst we have seen reflected across this country in the last couple months at town hall meetings and individual confrontations, is not simply about health care. and we ignore at our peril the

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Dennis J. Kucinich: underlying economic issues that are confronting this country. the fact there are 15 million americans out of work. the fact that so many people have lost their investments, many people have lost their pensions. this is what is moving the american people to revolt against their own government. so we need to look at this in a