[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 140 (Friday, October 28, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H9407]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING ISRAEL ON ELECTION OF AMBASSADOR DAN GILLERMAN AS VICE 
         PRESIDENT OF SIXTIETH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  (Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, first I want to commend the 
gentlewoman from California on her heartfelt remarks on behalf of Rosa 
Parks and express my condolences to the Parks family and to all of the 
people who knew her. I grew up in a time in the middle of the 1960s, I 
was born in 1966, and consider it an honor and a privilege that I was 
raised with the rights and benefits that were the legacy of Rosa Parks. 
So thank you so much for paying that tribute to her.
  I rise in support of House Resolution 368, the resolution 
congratulating the State of Israel on the election of Ambassador Dan 
Gillerman as vice president of the 60th United Nations General 
Assembly. I was pleased to learn that this resolution passed yesterday 
with a unanimous vote of 407 to zero, and I am quite proud to be a 
cosponsor.
  I also wish to commend my colleagues, Representative Adam Schiff and 
Representative Steve Chabot, for their leadership in sponsoring this 
resolution. I look forward to a time when Israel is treated with 
respect and dignity and honor by all of the members of the United 
Nations.

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