Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Friday reintroduced legislation to establish a Cabinet-level “Department of Peacebuilding,” with ...

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The bill is inspired by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who proposed a similar bill in 2001, as did former Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) in 2005 and former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) ...

Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, speaks at the United Auto Workers regional conference held at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa, Monday, Nov. 12, 2007.

Rep. Ilhan Omar's bill, first obtained by HuffPost, would create a Department of Peacebuilding within the executive branch.

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions ...

DeWine's budget rollout Monday kicks off months of negotiation over billions to fund state government for the next two years, as well as a wide variety of new initiatives and policy reforms.

(Editor's Note: Kucinich dropped his bid for the Democratic nomination on Jan. 25, 2008, changing his focus to run for re-election to his Ohio congressional seat. He did so after having been ...

A year before voting against sending the military to Iraq in 2002, then-Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) proposed creating a Department of Peace. A version of that bill was introduced in each session ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who received campaign donations over the years from the Khawams, joined Gabbard on the trip. Kucinich, like Gabbard, is a Democrat-turned-independent and a ...