I would like to speak words of tribute today to Haym Salomon. and to voice my support for the Haym Salomon Memorial Act. S. 1480. This bill would honor perhaps our Nations greatest Jewish American patriot. Haym Salomon. by permitting friends of Haym Salomon to erect a statue in his honor on the Capitol Grounds and a monument on Federal lands In the District of Columbia. Haym Salomon was Polish born and emigrated to America in 1772. right away he began working for American independence. Twice he was arrested by the British. first as a spy in 1776. and again 2 years later for plotting to burn the Kings fleet and destroy British warehouses in New York. Condemned to death.
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