Here is what Congressman Kucinich said today and the text of what was posted on his official website:

Each generation has had to take up the question of how to provide for the health of the people of our nation. And each generation has grappled with difficult questions of how to meet the needs of our people. I believe health care is a civil right. Each time as a nation we have reached to expand our basic rights, we have witnessed a slow and painful unfolding of a democratic pageant of striving, of resistance, of breakthroughs, of opposition, of unrelenting efforts and of eventual triumph.

Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has been the most prominent liberal holding out on supporting President Barack Obama's health care bill. On Tuesday evening, MSNBC said that he will now support the measure.

Kucinich will hold a press conference on Wednesday to further explain his vote and reasoning behind it.

President Barack Obama will be stopping by the Cleveland area next week to talk about health insurance reform. Specifically, he will be speaking at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville at 1pm on Monday, March 15. Tickets to the event are free and will be passed out on Sunday at the center to anyone who would like to go.

The tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning at 2pm in the main lobby of the center. If you're hoping to snag a seat, you'd be best to come early to get tickets.

President Obama's trip to Strongsville will be his third in the span of one week. Earlier this week he visited St. Louis and Philadelphia to discuss health insurance reform.

The community organizing group ACORN, which attracted a lot of attention during the 2008 presidential elections, has agreed to give up its Ohio business liscense and not return under another name. The group has made similar settlements in other states after being sued by a libertarian center.

U.S. District Judge Herman Weber in Cincinnati signed off on the deal, which settles claims brought by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law against ACORN's voter registration practices. Other terms of the deal are confidential and will not be revealed.

In a lawsuit, the center alleged that ACORN's voter registrationd drives amounted to organized crime because the group turned in a pattern of fradulent forms. Maurice Thompson, the attorney for the center, said that restricting ACORN's ability to support or enable other groups to "do what they do" was crucial to the deal, especially in a state like Ohio, which he characterized as "ground zero" to their voter advocacy efforts.

Thompson said:

On Thursday, a federal appeals court upheld the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency and "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco rejected two legal challenges by atheist Michael Newdow of Sacramento. Newdow argued that the references to God are unconsitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs. The same court ruled in Newdow's favor in 2002 when it decided that the Pledge of Allegiance violated the First Amendment prohibition against government endorsement of religion.

George W. Bush, who was president at the time of the 2002 decision, called their decision "ridiculous". Senators then passed a resolution condemning the ruling, and Newdow received death threats. In 2004, Newdow's lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court said that he lacked legal standing to file the suit because he didn't have custody of his daughter, on whose behalf he brought the case.

To get around this, Newdow filed an identical case on behalf of other parents who objected to reciting the pledge at school. In 2005, a Sacramento judge decided in Newdow's favor. This prompted the appeals court to take on the case.

Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is being singled out to change his vote on President Barack Obama’s health reform measure. President Obama himself pitched to Kucinich, telling him a form of single-payer option – Kucinich’s desire – is in the reform bill.

Kucinich was a no vote on the measure that passed the House. He has been pressing for an ideal single-payer measure.

Kucinich has the reputation of being a politician with strong beliefs. He has also been a rather selfish politician who thinks of his standing when making his decisions.

His intransigence not only endangers health reform – weakened as it is – but damages the Obama administration and possibly Democrats in general for the coming election.

The delayed health reform battle has set back President Obama’s ability to deal with the jobs and other issues. Republicans have denied Obama a single vote in the U. S. Senate in an attempt to fatally damage his presidency.

Rep. Bernie Sanders told the Huffington Post that he had talked to Kucinich, albeit “a while back,” about his provision that gives states the ability to provide a single-payer option using federal funds to do so.

Saturday mail delivery may soon be a thing of the past for the United States Postal Service, according to reports issued Tuesday. Postmaster General John Potter said that a dramatic reshaping of the agency and significant changes to mail delivery were critical to reducing its massive debt, as he began to outline a proposed overhaul of the country's mail service.

The Postal Service is struggling financially, and could lose up to $7 billion in 2010 according to Potter. Last year, the USPS posted $3.8 billion in losses and mail volume was down 13 percent. Officials say this decline in volume will continue, and is caused by a combination of both the recession and the predominance of email and other electronic forms of communication. Mail volume went from 213 billion pieces in 2006 to a projected 166 billion in 2010.

The USPS is trying to find ways to get out of the red without having to resort to taxpayer aid. Potter is expected to back dropping Saturday service as well as the possibility of raising rates.

Potter said:

"We need to rethink everything and every approach to move the Postal Service forward. We need to reinvest, redefine and reinvigorate the value of mail to business and households."

All you need is one crazy Republican to shut down the government these days. And they do it.

Sen. Jim Bunning is doing the job, denying the unemployed compensation in a Republican induced deep recession. And now he has caused payments to doctors for Medicare payments to be cut drastically.

Happy Days are Gone Again, sing the Republicans.

Isn’t this just what we needed to put us into a Depression.

Historical preservation in the United States got hit by a freight train when President Obama recently released his FY2011 budget. The President's budget eliminates funding for Save America's Treasures and Preserve America programs and cuts funding for National Heritage Areas by 50 percent. Those are the hardest financial hits historical preservation has taken in more than 20 years.

Historical preservation in the United States depends upon the federal government to monitor it. There is no college, university, think tank or news organization tracking the billions of local, state and federal dollars spent annually on historical preservation. No annual report is issued showing where preservation dollars are going, whether the money is being used wisely and what is being overlooked that needs to be preserved. Overseeing these efforts is essential.