NORTHUMBERLAND — The Middle East, Tom Marino says, is “a time bomb.”
And in seven days, it will be up to Marino and his colleagues on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House to spearhead that long-elusive peace.
Marino, the Cogan Station Republican who Nov. 2 upended two-term Democratic incumbent Chris Carney in the 10th Congressional District, met with 50 supporters in Northumberland on Wednesday night before he heads to the Capitol in Washington.
Marino wanted to personally thank those who voted him into the 112th Congress, which convenes Wednesday.
While Marino announced recently he would sit on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, he told the crowd Wednesday night that Speaker John Boehner, of Ohio, asked him to join a third.
“I have been asked to join the Foreign Affairs Committee,” Marino said. “I have agreed because I believe the Middle East is a time bomb and we need to negotiate peace.”
Assuming extra responsibilities won’t affect his work for the district, he said.
“I informed everyone that I speak with in Washington that I work for the people of the 10th District and that won’t change,” Marino said.
“Words can not say what I feel for the people that got me here and I can only repay them by going to Washington and doing the job they want me to do.”
Marino vowed that he and his office would be available to the district continually.
“I told my staff that we are not a 9-5 office,” Marino said.
“We will be there when people need us because constituent service is what we will do.”
In his 45-minute talk, Marino said he is humbled to have been elected and he will never forget what he set out to do.
“We are all in this together,” Marino said. “We all did this and I promise I will do the job you elected me to do.”
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