House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, heading a delegation of Members of Congress, and accompanied by present and former US ambassadors to Israel,visited Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, meeting with Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah Medical Organization Board Members and the General Manager of Hadassah, Prof. Shlomo Mor-Joseph. 

     During the visit noted the wide variety of people served by Hadassah, regardless of religion, race, gender or position, and observed Hadassah’s emergency preparedness.

     Pelosi remarked, “The people of Hadassah constitute a bridge for peace,” at the end of her visit.  “You treat everyone with the uniquely Jewish combination of excellent service and the highest scientific principles.”

    Members of the delegation included:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Speaker of the House of Representatives

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) House Majority Leader

Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) House Republican Leader

Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) Chairman, Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and Southern Asia

Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee

Rep. David Drerier (R-CA), Ranking Republican House Rules Committee

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) Chair, Democratic Caucus

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Senior Member, House Rules Committee; Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Rep. John Larson (D-CT) Vice Chair, Democratic Caucus 

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) Appropriations Committee; Chairwoman, State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee and House Homeland Security Committee

Rep. Adam Putnam (R- FL) Chairman, House Republican Conference

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

 Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) Committee on Homeland Security

Chair, Intelligence Subcommittee

Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL) Member, Foreign Affairs Committee;

Vice Chair, Middle East Subcommittee