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Dennis Kucinich
U.S. House: Representative
Democratic Next Election Year: 2010

Education:
MA, Speech Communications, Case Western Reserve University, 1974 BA, Speech Communications, Case Western Reserve University, 1973

Profession:
Consultant, Publicly Owned Electric Systems, 1979-present President, Marketing and Communications Firm, 1985-1995 Instructor, Communications and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, 1991-1994 Professor, Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1982-1992 Communications Entrepreneur, Software and Public Relations, 1982-1992 Clerk of Courts, Cleveland Municipal Court, 1976-1977 Sportswriter

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Voting Record on Legislation Involving Executive Branch

(2009) HR 2749 Food Safety Regulation Amendments

Outcome: Bill Passed (283/142)

Summary: -Institutes an annual registration fee for each facility in order to pay for "food safety activities," and specifies that the fee shall be $500 for fiscal year 2010 and shall be adjusted for inflation in each subsequent fiscal year (Sec. 101). -Limits the total aggregate registration fee liability for an owner or operator of multiple facilities to no more than $175,000 for any fiscal year (Sec. 101). -Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to suspend the registration of any facility for violating this bill in a manner that could cause "adverse health consequences or death" to humans or animals, and allows the Secretary to cancel a registration that was not properly updated, a registration that contains false, incomplete, or inaccurate information, or a registration for which the fee has not been paid within 30 days after the due date (Sec. 101). -Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to stop the distribution of foods found to pose "serious adverse health consequences or death" to humans or animals, and permits the Secretary to take the further step of ordering a recall of such food after allowing an opportunity for the distributor of the food to participate in an informal hearing (Sec. 111). -Categorizes facilities according to risk and assigns the following schedules for random inspection (Sec. 105):

-a 'high-risk' facility is category 1 and must be inspected at least every 6 to 12 months; -a 'low-risk' facility is category 2 and must be inspected at least every 18 months to 3 years; and -a facility that holds food is category 3 and must be inspected at least every 5 years.-Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish preventive control regulations or guidelines for the purpose of preventing unintentional contamination throughout the supply chain and requires all facilities to keep records of their efforts to comply with these regulations or guidelines (Sec. 102). -Provides that those who "knowingly" violate food safety provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act may be fined up to $50,000 per violation and up to $100,000 in a single proceeding for individuals, and up to $500,000 per violation and up to $7.5 million in a single proceeding for corporations and other entities (Sec. 135). -Provides that violators of food safety provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (other than those who have been found to have "knowingly" violated such provisions) may be fined up to $20,000 per violation and up to $50,000 in a single proceeding for individuals, and up to $250,000 per violation and up to $1 million in a single proceeding for corporations and other entities (Sec. 135). -Requires food importers to pay registration fees and allow for periodic inspections, and requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create regulations to ensure that food importers are in compliance with the provisions of this bill (Sec. 204). -Exempts from the requirements of this bill certain meats, poultry, eggs, alcohol and other food products that are regulated by an authority other than the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the facilities that produce such products (Sec. 5).

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2008) HR 7321 Automotive Industry Financing

Outcome: Bill Passed (237/170)

Summary: -Requires the President to designate one or more officials ("Car Czars") to be overseen by the Comptroller General in order to assess auto manufacturers' recovery plans and approve bridge loans (Secs. 3-4). -Allocates $14 billion for bridge loans and long-term restructuring loans to American auto companies that submitted recovery plans to the government by December 2, 2008 (Secs. 4, 10). -Requires participating auto manufacturers to submit a final restructuring plan to the President's designee by March 31, 2009, unless the designee chooses to postpone the deadline until April 30, 2009 (Sec. 6). -Specifies that bridge loans to a manufacturer will only be approved if the submitted restructuring plan will allow for repayment of all government loans, produce more efficient vehicles, rationalize costs, raise private capital, and manufacture a product line that will be competitive in the U.S. market (Sec. 6). -Transfers $7.01 billion from funds previously appropriated to the Department of Energy for direct loans to auto manufacturers producing advanced technology vehicles, and reserves $5000 million for tax incentives to produce efficient, low-emissions vehicles (Sec. 10). -Authorizes the President's designee to inspect all records of an auto manufacturer receiving government loans, to review and prohibit any business transaction valued at greater than $100 million, and to cancel financial assistance or require more rapid repayment of loans if participating manufacturers fail to meet the requirements of this act (Sec. 11). -Prohibits obligations from government financial assistance to auto manufacturers from being discharged due to bankruptcy under Title 11 of United States Code (Sec. 12). -Imposes limits on bonuses and incentive payments to the 25 most highly compensated executives in each participating company (Sec. 12). -Halts payment of dividends during the period that the government's loan is outstanding (Sec. 12).

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2008) HR 5811 Electronic Communications Preservation Act

Outcome: Bill Passed (286/137)

Summary: -Requires that the Archivist of the United States develop regulations governing the preservation of Presidential and federal agency electronic messages, including regulations that require the electronic capture, management, and preservation of electronic messages, regulations that require electronic messages to be made accessible through electronic searches, and regulations that establish a process to certify that electronic records management systems used by the President and federal agencies meet functional requirements (Secs. 2,3). -Requires the Archivist of the United States to annually certify whether the records management controls established by the President meet applicable requirements (Sec. 3). -Requires that, "to the extent practicable", the Archivist of the United States establish requirements for the capture, management, and preservation of electronic records other than standard electronic messages (Sec. 2).

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2008) H Res 982 Contempt Charges

Outcome: Resolution Passed (223/32)

Summary:

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2007) H Res 734 Sense of the House on Classification of Information on Corruption in Iraq

Outcome: Resolution Passed (395/21)

Summary:

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2007) S 214 United States Attorneys Act of 2007

Outcome: Bill Passed (306/114)

Summary: -Allows a person appointed as U.S. attorney to serve until the qualification of a U.S attorney for such district appointed by the President, or the expiration of 120 days after the appointment by the Attorney General, whichever is earlier (Sec. 2). -Allows the district court for such district to appoint a U.S. attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled, if an appointment expires (Sec. 2).

Kucinich's Vote

Y

(2007) HR 985 Whistleblower Protection Act of 2007

Outcome: Bill Passed (331/94)

Summary: -Protects disclosures by a federal employee or applicant that are believed to be credible evidence of waste, abuse, gross mismanagement, or substantial and specific danger to public health or safety without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, or prior disclosure (Sec. 2). -Defines "disclosure" as a formal or informal communication, not including a communication concerning policy decisions that lawfully exercise discretionary authority unless the employee providing the disclosure reasonably believes that the disclosure evidences: (1) any violation of law; or (2) mismanagement, waste, abuse of authority, or a danger to the public. (Sec. 3). -Establishes a legal standard for determining whether a whistleblower has a reasonable belief that a disclosure evidences governmental waste, fraud, or abuse, or a violation of the law. (Sec. 4). -Gives the President the authority to exclude certain agencies engaged in the conduct of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities from whistleblower protections if such exclusion is made prior to any personnel action against the whistleblower. (Sec. 6). -Gives the Merit Systems Protection Board the authority to impose disciplinary action for prohibited personnel practices. (Sec. 9). -States that an employee of a protected agency may not be discharged, demoted, or discriminated against as a reprisal for making a disclosure of covered information to an authorized Member of Congress, authorized executive official, or the Inspector General of the covered agency. (Sec. 10). -Adds to the definition of "abuse of authority": (1) actions that compromise the validity of federally funded research or analysis; and (2) the dissemination of false or misleading scientific, medical, or technical information (Sec. 13).

Kucinich's Vote

Y

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