Chuck Schumer: “first, let me thank our majority leader for the grace and hospitality he has shown our honored guest today, and all of…”

“first, let me thank our majority leader for the grace and hospitality he has shown our honored guest today, and all of our guests from the Bronx and the New York area who are present. We are graced, of course, by God's presence but also by the presence of one of the great leaders in New York, the Reverend Diaz. Visitors are not allowed to applaud, but we are applauding in our hearts--en nuestros corazones. And we are honored and blessed to have a leader such as Reverend Diaz. He is a leader in both the temporal world--God's world--and our secular world. And he brings the two together in such a beautiful and exquisite way that he is admired from one end of our State to the other. He has been my friend for a very long time. We are honored that he serves us in our legislature, but we are even more honored that he brings the word of God to all of us here in the Senate as well as in New York. And may he be granted many, many more years of leadership and good health.”