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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, I want to turn to one of my favorite things, honoring people back home in the State of Michigan. Michiganders deliver and show up for each other. We grow food for our families. We make the cars that power and drive America. We create products that brighten people's days. We achieve milestones that inspire our youngest minds. And when we see a problem or a neighbor in need, we step in to help.
Michigan that recognize the important contribution of some of our organizations and some of our companies.
these stories into the people's history of the United States. Today is officially our first “Michigan History Makers” in a series honoring Michiganders' contributions to our Nation. And by entering their names into the Congressional Record, their stories will be memorialized for good so that their great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren can see the contribution these organizations have made.
Today, I want to pay a tribute to Shenandoah Country Club. This is a country club owned and operated by the Chaldean community or Iraqi Christian community of Michigan. On March 12, it was a sunny, late winter day in Michigan at Temple Israel, a synagogue in West Bloomfield, MI. Young children were playing together and learning in a classroom painted orange and blue. A teacher had just placed babies as young as 15 months down for a nap and suddenly a gunman rammed his car through the temple.
the country to target the youngest, most vulnerable of the Jewish community, innocent children. There were gunshots, crying babies, teachers running with children in their arms, and people fleeing for their lives.
the Shenandoah Country Club is directly across the street, and that is where they went.
up as a safe haven and open their doors as refuge for over 100 children and other Jewish community members.
could hug their children again, and it became a place where everyone could sigh a breath of relief that no children or teachers were harmed.
then the next day transformed their ballroom to host a Shabbat gathering of over 1,000 Jewish worshippers, which I participated in.
dark moment. The Chaldean community didn't ask whether the families arriving at their doors looked like them, prayed like them, or came from the same background; they saw their neighbors in need, and they answered the call. Their kindness and hospitality were the silver lining in an otherwise terrible attack.
people of Michigan, it is my honor to recognize the Shenandoah Country Club and the Chaldean community here in the Senate of the United States.