Held up the arms of moses so that joshua could defeat the amalachites, the greatest enemy of the jewish people. Today rabbi leonard motomky will give the memorial prayer. Rabbi William Gershon from dallas, president of the Rabbinical Association of the conservative movement will give the prayer for israel. And rabbi fred reiner, chair of the atid Legal Society of the central conference of american rabbis will give the prayer for the United States, and they will help us hold up our hands as a unified people in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in israel. And a great thing about rabbi matonky who is going to go first. As they lead us in the prayers, theyre going to do it quite quickly because we dont have that much time today. And thats not easy for rabbis. Thats hard for rabbis. At this historic gathering of solidarity and support, we have to pause for a moment for the memorial prayer for naftali, gilad, ayali who were kidnapped and murdered for so reason other than they were jew
Good afternoon. I presently serve very proudly as the National Campaign chair for the Jewish Federation of north america. Jfna. I also serve as a member of the us is used for the Jewish Community federation of baltimore. [applause] but my distinct privilege right now is to introduce our congressman steny hoyer, democratic, in the house. He is a true friend of israel and the u. S. Israel relationship. A leader in the house on proisrael initiatives. Many of us know by going to israel, we certainly see, feel, touch what is going on, and congressman hoyer is one of those people who not only goes to israel repeatedly but takes members of congress with him. He understands the people and the land and the security today,ges israel faces yesterday, and tomorrow. It is our pleasure and honor for me to introduce congressman hoyer. [applause] good afternoon. It is a serious time in which we meet. When history will record that we had the resolve or we did not. Today, all of us are standing together
I have never seen the world more united from left to right. [applause] it is my honor today to introduce be groep the house john boehner, and i will say there is no better friend of israel than john boehner. Just last week, the speaker said. Luntly, israel is our friend andels enemies are our aeneas. Thank you. [applause] thank you all. Much, and you very let me say thank you for bringing us all together. Susane just heard from rice, and soon you will hear from Kevin Mccarthy, the new representative who i think will be a great success. Owe a great of data to gratitude to the man that he will succeed, and that is eric cantor. [applause] term as, erics majority leader might be coming to an end, but he will always be a leader in terms of israel. People try to isolate israel, but we are here today to stand with israel, not as an observer but as a Strong Partner and a trusted ally. And what does that mean . Mean doing on one hand something and on the other hand having words and statements.
Some Common Ground to governor. The only way things will happen in the congress if the democrats and republicans Work Together. Lynn jenkins of kansas. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] youre watching cspan2, live coverage. Reaction to the president s state of the union speech in just off the House Chamber where the president spoke. Some of of the issues he talked about, raising the minimum wage, new medicare reform, tax reform, he talked about the cybersecurity order that he issued today. He spent about half the speech talking about the economy, he also brought up voting reform and, of course, gun control measures and one other issue he brought up was the issue of a new war on poverty. And now joining us, one of the 84 new members of congress is tony car dane use of california. Whos seat did you take . They changed the lines around in california, and i put my name for a seat there that was no incumbent. So i was able to win outright. Here i am. What is your background . I well, i s
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