Dennis Kucinich said "this bill is flawed from the sky above to the earth below. Here on terra firma the bill would hurt the poor, the elderly and the disabled by cutting their housing assistance and the sky above, our space program, and its innovation, its ability to create new jobs is being destroyed. Glenn Research Center in my district, which is one of the finest centers in this country, is under attack in this bill. America is in effect eating its technological seed corn by destroying the ability of the space program to create new jobs with cuts like this, and at the same time America turns its back on the poor while the rich are getting richer, the poor are indeed getting poorer. It is time to take this bill away from fat city and send it back to committee." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 8, 1999

this bill is flawed from the sky above to the earth below. Here on terra firma the bill would hurt the poor, the elderly and the disabled by cutting their housing assistance and the sky above, our space program, and its innovation, its ability to create new jobs is being destroyed. Glenn Research Center in my district, which is one of the finest centers in this country, is under attack in this bill. America is in effect eating its technological seed corn by destroying the ability of the space program to create new jobs with cuts like this, and at the same time America turns its back on the poor while the rich are getting richer, the poor are indeed getting poorer. It is time to take this bill away from fat city and send it back to committee.

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Dennis Kucinich

Independent · Ohio

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Opposing a bill that cuts housing assistance and funding for the space program.

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