Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on July 1 of this year, the Judiciary Committee received a letter from LT Zachary W. Prager. He serves in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. He writes: I was a student at Harvard Law School under Ms. Kagan and commissioned into the Navy. . . . I am grateful to Dean Kagan for her leadership on military recruiting, as well as the myriad of other positive impacts that she had on my law school experience. I would not be serving today-- Referring to the military-- without it. She has earned my most heartfelt support for her nomination. This is a member of the military who felt Dean Kagan helped greatly with him joining the military. As the dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan worked hard to find ways to both enforce the school's nondiscrimination policy and allow the military to recruit Harvard students. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Lieutenant Prager's letter be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Leahy: I write in support of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. I am a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. I was a student at Harvard Law School under Ms. Kagan and commissioned into the Navy upon graduation in 2007. Without Ms.…”