Honorable Dennis Kucinich
United States Representative, Ohio, Democrat
Representative Kucinich, of the Tenth District of Ohio, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He serves on the Education and Labor Committee and the Oversight and the Government Reform Committee and chairs the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy. The following is from the April 10, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 5724, the United States–Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act. The administration would like to force this Congress to takeup the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, FTA, before August. This resolutionwill allow Congress, not the administration, to decide if and when this bodyshould take legislative…