I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 808 
To establish a Department of Peace. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 3, 2009 
Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. ANDREWS, 
Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. 
CUMMINGS, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. FARR, Mr. FILNER, Mr. AL GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 
HINCHEY, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE 
JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KILDEE, 
Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE of 
California, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. MARKEY of Mas-
sachusetts, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of 
California, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. NAD-
LER of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. OLVER, Mr. 
PAYNE, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, 
Mr. STARK, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. WATSON, Mr. WEXLER, 
Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, 
Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. MCDERMOTT, 
and Ms. WATERS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committees on Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, and Education and Labor, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a Department of Peace. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Department of Peace Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE 
Sec. 101. Establishment of Department of Peace. 
Sec. 102. Responsibilities and powers. 
Sec. 103. Principal officers. 
Sec. 104. Office of Peace Education and Training. 
Sec. 105. Office of Domestic Peace Activities. 
Sec. 106. Office of International Peace Activities. 
Sec. 107. Office of Technology for Peace. 
Sec. 108. Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. 
Sec. 109. Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. 
Sec. 110. Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. 
Sec. 111. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace. 
Sec. 112. Consultation required. 
Sec. 113. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS AND TRANSFERS OF 
AGENCY FUNCTIONS 
Sec. 201. Staff. 
Sec. 202. Transfers. 
Sec. 203. Conforming amendments. 
TITLE III—FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON PEACE 
Sec. 301. Federal Interagency Committee on Peace. 
TITLE IV—PEACE DAY 
Sec. 401. Peace Day. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental 
Congress unanimously declared the independence of 
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the 13 colonies, and the achievement of peace was 
recognized as one of the highest duties of the new 
organization of free and independent States. 
(2) In declaring, ‘‘We hold these truths to be 
self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that 
they are endowed by their Creator with certain 
unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Lib-
erty and the Pursuit of Happiness’’, the drafters of 
the Declaration of Independence, appealing to the 
Supreme Judge of the World, derived the creative 
cause of nationhood from ‘‘the Laws of Nature’’ and 
the entitlements of ‘‘Nature’s God’’, such literal re-
ferrals in the Declaration of Independence thereby 
serving to celebrate the unity of human thought, 
natural law, and spiritual causation. 
(3) The architects of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence ‘‘with a firm reliance on the protection of 
divine providence’’ spoke to the connection between 
the original work infusing principle into the struc-
ture of a democratic government seeking to elevate 
the condition of humanity, and the activity of a 
higher power which moves to guide the Nation’s for-
tune. 
(4) The Constitution of the United States of 
America, in its Preamble, further sets forth the in-
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