[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 94 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6693-H6694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          MESSAGE CONCERNING THE DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN EMERSON

  (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, as Chaplain Ford mentioned this 
afternoon about the death of our colleague, the gentleman from 
Missouri, Congressman Bill Emerson, was one of the most popular Members 
in the Congress. He even came as a page many, many years ago. He loved 
this House. He died at the age of 58 at Bethesda Naval Hospital. He 
served eight terms in the Congress. His funeral will be this Thursday 
out in his State of Missouri. So I bring this message to the House 
today.
  Mr. Speaker, I am sure tomorrow the Missouri delegation will take 
more time to talk about this wonderful man, Bill Emerson.

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    HOW NOT TO HANDLE A SEX DISCRIMINATION CASE IS DEMONSTRATED BY 
                        MITSUBISHI AUTO COMPANY

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I am positively amazed by the executives 
at Mitsubishi Auto Co. They seem to be destined to go in the textbook 
as the classic textbook case on how not to handle a sex discrimination 
case. Over the weekend, they decided that they would now try and get 
out from under the EEOC charges that have been filed against them. This 
case has been one that has been documented in newspapers all over the 
place, and they constantly continue to spend all of their money trying 
to do legal maneuvers, find fancy high-priced people that they can hide 
behind to say that they are coming clean.
  I guess the bottom line is ``denial is not a river in Egypt.'' It 
seems to be something that is flowing right through the executive 
offices of Mitsubishi Auto Co., and it is a shame they do not just 
settle this case and get on with it. I think everybody would have a 
whole lot more respect for all of them.

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