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Candidate Notes on 07-HR808

 


07-HR808 on Feb 5, 2007

Establishes a Department of Peace and Nonviolence, which shall be headed by a Secretary of Peace and Nonviolence appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth the mission of the Department, including to:
  1. hold peace as an organizing principle;
  2. endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights; and
  3. develop policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict.

Introductory statement by Sponsor:

Rep. KUCINICH: HR808 gives the promise of transforming our country and the world. It is now supported by 52 Members of the House of Representatives, and it is supported by groups who yesterday came to Washington representing 45 States. Last night, nearly 1,000 people came to the George Washington University campus to hear about the Department of Peace and the hope that it brings for America.

If you were to look at the House Clerk's desk, just around the corner, you will see engraved right into the desk, the word "peace." Peace is a foundational principle of this Congress and of this country, and the bill gives it a chance to have an animating power in our civic life by addressing the issues of domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, violence in the schools, racial violence, all of those concerns we have both domestically and internationally.

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Democrats participating in 07-HR808

Neil Abercrombie s1oHawaii Democrat
Robert Andrews s1oNJ Former Democratic challenger; U.S. Rep.
Tammy Baldwin s1oWisconsin Democrat
Leonard Boswell s1oIowa Democrat
Corrine Brown s1oFlorida Democrat
Julia Carson s1oIndiana Democrat
William Lacy Clay s1oMissouri Democrat
Emmanuel Cleaver s1oMissouri Democrat
John Conyers s1oMichigan Democrat
Elijah Cummings s1oMaryland Democrat
Danny Davis s1oIllinois Democrat
Susan Davis s1oCalifornia Democrat
Peter Defazio s1oOregon Democrat
Keith Ellison s1oMinnesota Democrat
Sam Farr s1oCalifornia Democrat
Chaka Fattah s1oPennsylvania Democrat
Bob Filner s1oCalifornia Democrat
Al Green s1oTexas Democrat
Raul Grijalva s1oArizona Democrat
Luis Gutierrez s1oIllinois Democrat
Alcee Hastings s1oFlorida Democrat
Maurice Hinchey s1oNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Mazie Hirono s1oHawaii Democrat
Rush Holt s1oNew Jersey Democrat
Mike Honda s1oCalifornia Democrat
Jesse Louis Jackson s1oIllinois Democrat
Eddie Bernice Johnson s1oTexas Democrat
Hank Johnson s1oGeorgia Democrat
Marcy Kaptur s1oOhio Democrat
Dale Kildee s1oMichigan Democrat
Carolyn Kilpatrick s1oMichigan Democrat
Dennis Kucinich s1pOhio Democrat
John Larson s1oConnecticut Democrat
Barbara Lee s1oCalifornia Democrat
Sheila Jackson Lee s1oTexas Democrat
John Lewis s1oGeorgia Democrat
Carolyn Maloney s1oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Ed Markey s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Betty McCollum s1oMinnesota Democrat
Jim McDermott s1oWashington Democrat
Jim McGovern s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Michael McNulty s1oNew York Democratic/Ind./Cons.
Gregory Meeks s1oNew York Dem./Working-Families
George Miller s1oCalifornia Democrat
Gwen Moore s1oWisconsin Democrat
James Moran s1oVirginia Democrat
Jerrold Nadler s1oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Eleanor Holmes Norton s1oDistrict of Columbia Democrat
James Oberstar s1oMinnesota Democrat/Farmer/Labor
John Olver s1oMassachusetts Democrat
Donald Payne s1oNew Jersey Democrat
Nick Rahall s1oWest Virginia Democrat
Charles Rangel s1oNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Steven Rothman s1oNew Jersey Democrat
Tim Ryan s1oOhio Democrat
Jan Schakowsky s1oIllinois Democrat
Jose Serrano s1oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Brad Sherman s1oCalifornia Democrat
Pete Stark s1oCalifornia Democrat
Ellen Tauscher s1oCalifornia Democrat
Ed Towns s1oNew York Democrat/Liberal
Maxine Waters s1oCalifornia Democrat
Diane Watson s1oCalifornia Democrat
Lynn Woolsey s1oCalifornia Democrat
David Wu s1oOregon Democrat
Albert Wynn s1oMaryland Democrat



Republicans participating in 07-HR808



Independents participating in 07-HR808



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 66
Republicans: 0
Independents: 0