[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 22 (Friday, February 3, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E267]
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                        TRIBUTE TO BRADFORD MORSE

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                      HON. WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR.

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, February 3, 1995
  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remember a former 
colleague, and one of the founders of the House Wednesday Group, 
Representative Bradford Morse. The objectives of Brad and the others in 
starting the Wednesday Group was to foster and promote moderate, 
Republican ideas. This temperate philosophy carried over to 
Representative Morse's work as a legislator as he served on the 
Government Operations and Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committees, and 
later on Foreign Affairs. On behalf of the members of the Wednesday 
Group, we deeply regret his passing.
  Much to the credit of Mr. Morse, he never forgot the reason he was 
able to work in this body and establish the group that still meets. The 
constituents of his Massachusetts district were always a priority. He 
began contributing to the State early in his career, long before his 
time here in Washington. Mr. Morse pursued all phases of his education 
in his home State, and decided to practice and teach law there as well. 
Appropriately, he also served on the Lowell City Council, the town in 
which he was born. As you can see, Mr. Speaker, Brad Morse was a man of 
integrity, a man whose heritage defined his successful career.
  After he left Congress, Mr. Morse continued to make a significant 
contribution as he worked to achieve international peace at the United 
Nations. In his role as administrator for the U.N.'s Development 
Programme, Mr. Morse set out to accomplish monumental tasks. 
Accordingly, and in his typical fashion, the effects of the results he 
achieved were also monumental.
  Mr. Speaker, although I am saddened to be addressing you on the 
occasion of Brad Morse's passing, it is my privilege and honor to 
associate myself with the ideas he represented. Perhaps the greatest 
tribute my colleagues and I can pay to the late Representative is to 
continue the thoughtful undertakings of the group he founded nearly 30 
years ago.


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