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Howard Berman: “As Speaker Pelosi indicated in her own comments, the person that I think all of us in this Chamber miss very much in not…”

On the recordApril 22, 2008
As Speaker Pelosi indicated in her own comments, the person that I think all of us in this Chamber miss very much in not being able to manage this resolution because of his own background and his own deep love and commitment for the State of Israel was our late chairman, Tom Lantos. This would have been something that he would have been personally very gratified with, and certainly wanted to join in the trip that the Speaker will be leading to the State of Israel in the next couple of weeks to help celebrate this anniversary. And so I think it's fair to say that everyone in the Chamber wishes that things might have been different, that he might have been here himself to manage this resolution.
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Howard Berman
California

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Remembering the late Tom Lantos during a discussion about a resolution related to Israel.

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