[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5633]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        SENDING OUR SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE PEOPLE OF POLAND

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, in New Britain, Connecticut, 
on Sunday, over 1,000 people came together at Sacred Heart Catholic 
Church to mourn the 96 public servants, diplomats and military leaders 
who died in the tragic plane crash in Poland.
  This tragedy has shocked the entire world, but it's hit my district 
particularly hard. The Polish American community in Connecticut has 
deep roots and remains strongly connected to their homeland.
  Our Polish inheritance is visible throughout the community of New 
Britain, Connecticut, and the surrounding suburbs. Broad Street in that 
town has been named ``Little Poland'' by the city council. There are 
people grieving today at Casimir Pulaski School in Meriden, at Pulaski 
Middle School in New Britain, and certainly this summer during the 
annual Dozynki harvest festival, a tradition which Polish immigrants 
brought to New Britain, Connecticut, during their immigration to the 
United States.
  As Americans, and as a people with deep and lasting Polish roots, we 
together mourn this terrible tragedy and send our sincere condolences 
to the people of Poland.

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