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said he was “shaken” and “angered” following Hamas’s attacks on Israel this weekend, where the lawmaker had traveled to give a speech.
Rep. Dan Goldman was also in Israel for a bar mitzvah with his wife and three of his children. Both Goldman and Booker have since been able to safely leave the region.I hope Republicans can get their House in order so we can pass emergency legislation to assist Israel in defending herself. “There were thousands of rockets being launched,” the senator said, noting he sheltered in the hotel’s bomb shelter in a stairwell. He said he saw “frightened faces. There were children and elderly families, many Americans. There was a sense of fear and worry and a knowledge to many of us that there were horrific things going on around the country at that time.”
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