Marcy Kaptur: “I would like to thank my very able colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley), and also the gentleman from New…”

“I would like to thank my very able colleague, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley), and also the gentleman from New York (Mr. Fossella) for sponsoring this resolution and my dear friend and our leader, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), for sponsoring this resolution this evening. I, as an Ohioan and a daughter of the Buckeye State, rise with a heavy heart along with our colleagues from New York to extend deepest sympathy to the family, the friends and the colleagues, both in public life, in private life, in church life, for the unselfish life of John Cardinal O'Connor. We mourn with all the loss of this truly great spiritual leader and world figure of enormous proportion. It is amazing. I guess one could say there are cardinals and then there are cardinals, and without question those of us who hail west of Long Island and New York City kind of viewed Cardinal O'Connor and the New York archdiocese as our connection to the world, and his role stretched beyond the diocese of New York. I have to think back to a wonderful invitation that was extended to us by the gentleman from New York (Mr.…”