[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H749-H750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    MEMORIAL TO ED WHITE, FORMER CHIEF CLERK TO REPORTERS OF DEBATES

  (Mr. FAZIO of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FAZIO of California. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my colleague from 
Ohio [Mr. Traficant] to memorialize one of our staff who has passed 
away.

[[Page H750]]

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from California.
  Congress is a busy place. Members interact with many workers. 
Sometimes we know them, but yet we do not know them. One of those 
individuals was a great worker here. Ed White. He was, in fact, the 
Chief Clerk to the reporters. He sat right at the first level of the 
dais there, right behind the Republican podium.
  Ed has passed away. He served in Korea. He retired in 1993. He is 
from Boston, MA. While in the service they handed him a tank, but no 
one taught him how to operate it. He taught himself and operated that 
tank in defense of our great country.
  Ed White leaves his beautiful wife, Patricia; two sons, Patrick and 
Teddy; and an awful lot of people who knew him here and cared deeply 
for him. There will be, in fact, a memorial mass, 2 p.m., Thursday, 
January 25, St. James Catholic Church, 103 North Spring St., Falls 
Church, VA, for all of us who remember Ed and want to give our best to 
the family, and God bless.

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