[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING MARK LEVIN

 Mr. SMITH. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Mark 
Levin, who is celebrating his 25th year with the NCSJ.
  In his time with NCSJ, Mark Levin has accomplished a great deal. A 
consummate professional, Mark has spent 25 years moving through the 
ranks from a professional staffer all the way to executive director.
  As the mandated central coordinating agency of the organized Jewish 
community on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews of the former 
Soviet Union, the NCSJ comprises nearly 50 national organizations and 
over 300 local federations, community councils, and committees.
  Mark has represented NCSJ at conventions, summits, and also here in 
the Halls of Congress.
  A distinguished scholar and policy expert, Mark is unmatched in his 
knowledge of the Soviet Jewry, and he was instrumental in restructuring 
NCSJ's tactics following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
  But while Mark's resume is overflowing with remarkable 
accomplishments, it is the relationships that he has forged over the 
years that are his finest achievements.
  For 25 years, Mark has been more than an advocate--he has been a 
friend.
  It is those friendships that have made his time with NCSJ special. 
They are what have taken him from merely influencing policy to 
significantly impacting people's lives.
  And it is those friendships that have brought us all together to 
honor Mark for 25 outstanding years of service.
  With that, I would like to thank NCSJ for an opportunity to speak on 
behalf of Mark, and I would like to offer my thanks and my 
congratulations to an outstanding colleague and an even better friend, 
Mark Levin.

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