Political Quotes

“I have two items I would like to speak for a few moments on today, but first I want to rise to say how pleased I am that the Senate voted to confirm Judge Hala Jarbou to serve as the Federal judge in the U.S. District Circuit for the Western District of Michigan. Both Senator Peters and I supported her, returned our blue slips, and were very pleased to support her confirmation. I think she will do an excellent job. Her story, Judge Jarbou's story, is really an American story. She was born in Iraq and came to this country as a young girl. She was the first person in her family to earn her college degree from the University of Michigan and her law degree from Wayne State University. She is the first Chaldean judge to serve at the circuit court level in Oakland County, MI, and she is now the first Chaldean-American to serve on the Federal bench. So I am very, very pleased that she was confirmed today. Judge Jarbou greatly values the opportunity she has been given, I know, and has worked to extend those opportunities to others during her career. She is active in the Michigan legal community and in the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce and other cultural organizations. She served as a mentor and has worked to increase the diversity of clerks in her own courtroom. Again, I am just very pleased that she was overwhelmingly confirmed by the U.S. Senate today. ____________________”