Political Quotes

On the recordJune 24, 2010
I thank the gentleman. Reclaiming my time, the oil companies, let us stipulate, are not eleemosynary or charitable organizations. They make huge profits at the expense of the taxpayers. And they are making even more profit because the fact of the matter is we now have to monetize the cost of all the pollution that's coming out of the gulf. No matter what BP pays, we will be paying for generations to come. Support the Kucinich amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Pascrell The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 4 printed in part B of House Report 111-511.
Said by
Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio

Share & report

More from Dennis Kucinich

Sep 13, 2012

An article opposing the bill, by Autumn Hanna and Henry Sokolski in the National Review Online, states: The total number of projects this bill grandfathers isn't publicly available. Par for the course with this highly secretive program. We…

govinfo.gov
Sep 21, 2012

The Stop the War on Coal Act is up today. It is the coal industry which is waging war on our mountains by leveling them, war on our lungs by burning dirty fuel, war on healthy children by being the single largest source of mercury…

govinfo.gov
Aug 1, 2012

I would like to include for the Record a statement by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, which says that the new sanctions push the U.S. and Iran closer to war. New Iran Sanctions Push U.S., Iran Closer Toward War--Friends…

govinfo.gov
Aug 1, 2012

I yield myself 1 minute. Sanctions are a form of war in this case, and it will lead to war. And remember, we're not talking about--some time ago we were talking about if Iran would have a nuclear weapon, but then the bar's been lowered to…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation