[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 38 (Tuesday, April 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 12, 1994]
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                    THE LATE HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, it is my sad duty to officially report to 
the House the passing of our dear friend and esteemed former colleague, 
Congressman William H. Natcher, the chairman of our Committee on 
Appropriations.
  Bill died during the recess period, on March 29, in his 84th year. We 
who served with him, in my case for 24 years, in the delegation, we 
knew him to be what everyone knew him to be, an esteemed gentleman, a 
courtly man, a master of the legislative process of the House, and a 
devoted American and devoted father/husband/grandfather.
  When we had the memorial service at the Eastwood Baptist Church in 
Bowling Green on the 6th of April and when we who were in the 
congregation--and I thank my colleagues who could attend with us--when 
we heard the statements rendered by the pastor of the church, Dr. 
Bridges, by our esteemed Speaker, Mr. Foley, by the President of the 
United States and by a longtime family friend and boyhood pal of 
Bill's, only then did even I, who had known him for a long time, 
realize the full dimension of this human being, the full breadth and 
the full depth of him as a human being.
  It is because of that giant reach of this man that his death and his 
passing leave a tremendous void here in this House and, of course for 
us in the Kentucky delegation, a particular void.
  So, in order to help fill that void, we will have a special order, 
which will be promulgated and noticed to all the Members who wish to 
take part in order that we, each of us, might be able to put in the 
Record our feelings about this great individual. But suffice it today 
to say that his like will not soon pass our way again.

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