Tag: ceremonially

Nearly a month after taking office, Congresswoman Sarah McBride was ceremonially sworn in Tuesday night in Wilmington. 

McBride took the oath of office which was administered by 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Tamika Montgomery-Reeves. Governor Matt Meyer and Attorney General Kathy Jennings also spoke during the event at Old Town Hall.

McBride said while she had been in office for a few weeks, “it didn’t feel right unless and until we came together as a Delaware family to formalize this privilege that I have to represent the greatest state in the House of Representatives.”

The ceremony came at the end of a day in which there was much confusion and concern over action take by President Donald Trump and the administration to freeze or potentially freeze federal funding to certain programs.

“I enter Congress at a moment of uncertainty and fear for so many in our country. A time that will test our constitution, our economy and our very compassion,” McBride said. “The events of the last 24 hours only reinforce the chaos and cruelty of this new administration as health care for one in four Americans, child care for millions of kids, and non-profit programs serving families across the country have been thrust into confusion and risk. It is unacceptable and unconscionable.”

“And while it is understandable to be overwhelmed by our politics, to search foe easy answers or comforting solutions, if we are to truly face these challenges, then we must face up to the circumstances that gave rise to the current state of our politics,” McBride continued. 

“Here in Delaware, we understand the necessity of collaboration, not out of some empty belief in compromise-for-compromise sake, but because we know you cannot have a diverse democracy if we lose our capacity to have conversations across difference and disagreement, if dissent is disallowed, if we stop seeing one another as people.”

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