Political Quotes

“I am tremendously honored to follow my colleague from Massachusetts, Senator Warren, who has so zealously and thoughtfully developed a program that deals with the breaking, calamitous burden of student debt which affects so many of our young people across this country, including my State of Connecticut, and I thank her for her great work. I wish to talk about that issue following the very eloquent remarks of my colleagues, Senators Durbin, Reid, Brown, as well as Schumer and Senator Warren, to be followed by Senator Baldwin. But first I wish to take a moment or two to express my deepest condolences for the family of Lori Gellatly, who was shot and killed today in Oxford, CT. This tragedy is not only saddening but shocking because Lori is dead and her mother is seriously wounded and in very dire condition. They were shot by her estranged husband who was under an ex parte restraining order from a judge and who is suspected. All we have right now are allegations of his committing this atrocious crime. My heart goes out to their family and to their children. She left two children behind. There will be time to talk about the lessons we can learn from domestic violence like this shocking infamy. In her application for the restraining order she described a violent altercation with her estranged husband which made her ``afraid for her kids and herself.'' She was granted an ex parte order but it was only temporary.…”