[CitizensTruth] If you would like to help Kucinich, please contact members of the House Judiciary Committee and demand a hearing on the articles of impeachment:

[Daniel Stafford]

If you would like to help Kucinich, please contact members of the House 
Judiciary Committee and demand a hearing on the articles of impeachment:
Committee Email: http://judiciary.house.gov/contact.aspx
Committee Phone: 202-225-3951
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) Chair 202-225-5126
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) 202-225-5635
Melvin L. Watt (D-NC) 202-225-1510
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) 202-225-3072
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) 202-225-7931
Howard Coble (R-NC) 202-225-3065
Trent Franks (R-AZ) 202-225-4576


http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/11/kucinich-judiciary-committee-must-begin-review-of-impeachment-articles/


      Kucinich: Judiciary Committee must begin review of impeachment
      articles
      <http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/11/kucinich-judiciary-committee-must-begin-review-of-impeachment-articles/>

By Mike Sheehan | Congress 
<http://rawstory.com/news08/category/congress/>, White House 
<http://rawstory.com/news08/category/white-house/>, impeachment 
<http://rawstory.com/news08/category/impeachment/> | Wednesday, 11 June 
2008

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), two days after presenting 35 articles of 
impeachment against President George W. Bush 
<http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_presents_Bush_impeachment_articles_0609.html>, 
urged in a statement that a key House committee commence examination of 
the articles.

"It is now imperative that the Judiciary Committee begin a review of the 
35 articles," said Kucinich. "I will be providing supporting 
documentation to the committee so that it can proceed in an orderly manner.

"The weight of evidence contained in the Articles makes it clear that 
President Bush violated the Constitution and the US Code as well as 
international law," said the Ohio lawmaker, whose efforts to impeach 
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been largely ignored by the 
mainstream media.

The House of Representatives approved Kucinich's motion today 
<http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/11/house-voting-to-send-impeachment-resolution-to-judiciary-committee/> 
to refer the articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee, chaired 
by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). Kucinich said on Wednesday that he would 
meet with Conyers this week.

Conyers has yet to release a public statement on the motion, but has in 
the past not been supportive of impeachment efforts. The resolution to 
impeach Cheney, which Kucinich presented in April 2007, remains stalled 
in the committee he chairs.

"It is the House's responsibility as a co-equal branch of government to 
provide an effective check and balance to executive abuse of power," 
Kucinich continued in the statement. "President Bush was principally 
responsible for directing the United States Armed Forces to attack Iraq.

"I believe that there is sufficient evidence in the Articles to support 
the charge that President Bush allowed, authorized and sanctioned the 
manipulation of intelligence by those acting under his direction and 
control, misleading Congress to approve a resolution authorizing the use 
of force against Iraq.

"As a result over 4,000 United States soldiers have died in combat in 
Iraq, with tens of thousands injured, many of them permanently 
impaired," explained Kucinich. "Over a million innocent Iraqis have 
perished in a war which was based on lies, a war which will cost the 
American taxpayers as much as three trillion dollars.

The Ohio lawmaker said that it is now "incumbent" for the Judiciary 
Committee to review evidence he presented. He promised that if the 
committee failed to hold any hearings on the resolution within thirty 
days, he would repeat his efforts. He told one reporter Wednesday 
<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/06/kucinich_vows_to_keep_up_impea.html>, 
"Leadership wants to bury it, but this is one resolution that will be 
coming back from the dead. ... I will be bringing the resolution up 
again, and I won't be the only one reading it."

Kucinich closed in his statement, "We must not only create an historical 
record of the misconduct of the Bush administration, but we must make 
sure that any future administration is forewarned about the 
constitutionally proscribed limits of executive authority and exercise 
of power contravening the Constitution."

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      <http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/11/house-voting-to-send-impeachment-resolution-to-judiciary-committee/>
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