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      <excerpt>...the Treasury and Federal Reserve over the purchase.  &#8220;I find some of the things you said not believable,&#8221; Rep Cummings said.  Dennis Kucinich, chairman of the Domestic Policy Subcomittee, told the hearing  that he had obtained an email from a top Fe</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Representative, and then candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, Dennis Kucinich participated in an NPR broadcast, radio-only debate in ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> By Other Voices James Schiely criticizes Congressman Dennis Kucinich&amp;#39;s vote against the health care bill that just passed the US House of Representatives, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...takeover&quot; legislation is the stuff of intense argument and widespread consternation on the left. Of his &quot;no&quot; vote, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Democrat who champions a &quot;single-payer&quot; plan along the lines of other industrialized countries, said the Ho</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...at the Eastman House Sunday, and received an assist from a surprise guest: Ohio congressman and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who spoke to the crowd over a cell phone pressed against a microphone. While most Republicans opposed the Hous</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Any trace of the Jerry Brown who sounded like Dennis Kucinich when he ran for President is gone. At this weekend&amp;#39;s California Democratic Party E-Board ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> It is worse than nothing. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, got it right, and this administration has let me down. Compromise is one thing, but to allow the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Dennis Kucinich did. We should have taken him more seiously than the pretty man with the big smile. Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:43 PM on 11/18/2009. - + ChelseaC I&amp;#39;m a Fan of ChelseaC I&amp;#39;m a fan of this user 147 fans ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>This is as bad as that pinhead Dennis Kucinich and his &amp;quot;Department of Peace&amp;quot; BS. I hope the good Democrat voters of Missouri are proud of this idiot. Trouble is, they probably are. One American - November 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pm ...</excerpt>
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