Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank both Majority Leader Reid and Chaplain Black for allowing Rabbi Ginsberg to open our session with what I thought was a very beautiful prayer challenging us to action and to conscience. Just a word about Rabbi Ginsberg's leadership. For the last decade Rabbi Ginsberg has been helping to organize one of the most robust religious communities in Connecticut. In 2000 Rabbi Judah Harris conceived a yeshiva in Waterbury. It began with about 38 students and today has grown to service 600 students and 180 families who have settled in a neighborhood just off the center of Waterbury that 10 to 20 years ago had become pretty rundown but today is thriving and has been rebuilt because of the community surrounding the yeshiva. We have had a wonderful Jewish community since the mid-1800s, but it is stronger today than ever, in large part because of the efforts of Rabbi Ginsberg. In addition to building this wonderful community and being amongst its leaders, he has been of great counsel to me, Senator Blumenthal, and Governor Mallow as a moral guide but also as someone on whom we can rely when it comes to the tough policy choices we have to make. I again thank Chaplain Black and Leader Reid, and I thank Rabbi Ginsberg for accepting our offer to lead us this morning. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized. Schedule”