Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, our wonderful chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, for the time, and I thank the ranking member as well. What a joy it has been to work with my Florida colleague, Ted Deutch, on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, we have before us a concurrent resolution introduced by our wonderful Florida Senator, Bill Nelson. This measure follows a similar bipartisan resolution that my south Florida friend, Ted Deutch, and I introduced earlier this year, which this body passed unanimously in June. The vote was 363-0. I want to thank Senator Nelson as well as Senator Collins for taking the lead on this initiative in the Senate and for the Senate taking action, passing this important resolution, and bringing it back to us. I want to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel for their support on this measure and helping it get to the floor today. This bipartisan resolution, Mr. Speaker, is simple, but it is so important. It calls on Germany to honor its moral and historical obligations to all Holocaust survivors and to provide for their unmet needs immediately and comprehensively. That is something that is going to happen thanks to all of the good men and women here. For Ted, for Senator Nelson, and for me, this issue hits very close to home, Mr. Speaker. As Members of Congress from the State of Florida, we represent thousands of Holocaust survivors. Some 15,000 are estimated to be living in south Florida alone.…”