Dennis Kucinich

As I am listening to the testimony one of the things that strikes me is that we have got men and women out in the field right now with their lives on the line--veterans that will be returning home.

Closing the wage gap will help families stay in their homes, decrease reliance on government programs.

It is unacceptable that workplace discrimination continues to be so prevalent.

If you want to do business with the federal government you will treat our citizens fairly.

Taxpayer dollars should never be used to violate civil rights or to perpetuate discrimination.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of the late Honorable Donald M. Payne, so that we may commemorate his extraordinary life of dedication and commitment to service.

To earn what men earned in 2011, women must work all of 2011, and then keep on working, right up until April 17 of this year.

Yesterday was Equal Pay Day. Equal Pay Day marked the day on which women's compensation finally caught up with their male counterparts from last year.

I know Senator Coburn is one of the most fluent people on these issues and I appreciate your presence here for that reason.

Well, I want to make sure that I correctly. This is the President's budget that I'm citing under the Department of Energy.

Do you think that these industries should continue to be rewarded with tax breaks and other benefits?

I appreciate that, thank you, for the members of the panel here.

Well, I could understand the sympathy that you have; you represent the smaller developers very well, but my question is back home in Cleveland I have people who are looking at $4 or $5 a gallon for gas and are wondering why are these oil…

Has anybody in this Congress suggested that those who are getting a bailout should take a drug test? That those who have oil depletion allowances should take a drug test? That those who were the recipients of the Bush tax cuts in the top…

But they have been a pretty integral part. There was a time when there were little kids working in factories throughout this country.

We have had 16 hearings on employees, and busting unions.

Terrible decision, probably the worst decision in my lifetime in the Supreme Court.

I think the record would show that there were in fact some unions who supported Ronald Reagan's candidacy.

This is about right to work for less.

While I pledge to you in George Meany's memory that the voice of the American worker will once again be heeded in Washington, and that the climate of fear that he spoke of will no longer threaten workers and their families.

I don't understand what this attack is going on in this country, except it is about an effort, they call it right to work, it is about an effort to create right to work for less.

His assassination left a vacuum in American politics that still hasn't been filled.

We have to stop fighting battles that are 55 years old, and let's get contemporary.

We can't be fighting battles that are 55 years old. We can't be doing that.

I am tired of being hounded by mailings telling me how to vote and what initiatives to support.