Senate Proceeding on Jun 10th, 2009 :: 1:30:45 to 1:34:55
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Charles Schumer: consent the reminder of my statement be entered in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. durbin: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i thank my colleague and friend from illinois for his outstanding words once again on health care. and on the fact that we need some kind of check on the

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Speech By: Charles Schumer

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Charles Schumer: insurance companies -- our colleagues offer nothing, they just point to canada and england which is a totally different system than we are focusing on. second, i thank my colleague from oregon doing a great job in his first year in the senate for his generosity so i can speak for a brief moment, share with my

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Charles Schumer: an act of bravery that occurred in my state yesterday. mr. president, as the senate right now debates some of the biggest national issues of our time, it's important to sometimes take a step back and look to see some of the great acts that are happening every day in our towns, cities and states.

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Charles Schumer: so lied like to call -- so i'd like to call of heroicness y at south orange school in new york, in rock land county, 45 minutes from new york

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Charles Schumer: city, gun stormed into the school superintendent and grabbed the supentendent by the neck tie and started threatening him and making demands. at least three gun shots were fired. this is the kind of situation that would have scared most everyone but as we've

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Charles Schumer: now, ken mitchell is no ordinary person. with his safety and the state of his students on the line he showed remarkable courage and wrestled the gunman down to the frowned. he was able to grab the gun, kick it out of the way and get the gunman pinned on the ground. usually, when a s.w.a.t. team

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Charles Schumer: arrived at the scene of a crime they are the ones to do the serious crime fighting but this time by the time they got there they walked in on the school superintendent who disarmed and pinned to the ground the dangerous criminal. to top it off the superintendent mitchell recognized one of the

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Charles Schumer: s.w.a.t. team membe he had once coached as a kid on the local hockey team. according to people on the scene, mr. mitchell was ready to get back to his office. as his brother if law said, "his tie wasn't even another another great new yorker.

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Charles Schumer: mr. president, it should be no secret to anyone that this incident could very quickly have turned into something unspeakable. while the headlines today are the ones of praise, they could have easily been of grief and praise god they weren't. as new york

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Charles Schumer: rise publicly ken mitchell for his act of bravery and heroism. as a parent myself i know what it's like to send kids off to school in the morning and hope and prayer they'll come back safely. it is people like ken mitchell that make it easy for parents to know that their kids are in good

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Charles Schumer: hand when they wave goodbye to the school bus and send their children off to school. ken mitchell is a reminder that every minute of every day americans are engaging in personal quiet acts of heroism and bravery which we should all be i'm proud he is from my state and i am proud if even for one moment i can give him some of

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Charles Schumer: the recognition he deserves. i'm sure that superintendent mitchell is back at work right now at if nothing happened. however, superintendent ken mitchell, on behalf of all new yorkers, all americans and parents everywhere, we say, "thank you, it's americans like