Joe Crowley: “I thank my friend, the gentlewoman from Ohio, for being here this evening to have this Special Order to speak on an…”

“I thank my friend, the gentlewoman from Ohio, for being here this evening to have this Special Order to speak on an issue of such magnitude, of importance to we the people of the United States, important to the world, that we never forget what took place: the horror, the utter destruction of humankind during the Holocaust, but, in particular, the focus of that destruction upon the Jewish race. It is important because we are seeing a rise, quite frankly, of anti- Semitism not only around the world, but right here in the United States. It takes different forms in different places, but, in the end, has the same result of targeting and hurting one of the historically most vulnerable groups in our world: the Jewish people. One of the things that has been the most concerning to me is the minimizing of the suffering of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. Frankly, it is really outright disturbing--I don't know if that does it justice--that the White House of the United States of America, the home of our President, our present administration, representing the same country that defeated Nazi Germany, the same country that bore the Greatest Generation, the same country that led the fight against anti- Semitism worldwide, while recognizing from time to time it had to douse it here in the United States, our country, this same White House that I referred to deliberately refused to mention that the Holocaust was designed to eliminate the Jewish people from the face of the Earth.…”