[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HONORABLE BILL EMERSON

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, over the weekend we were saddened to learn 
of the death of one of our colleague, Bill Emerson. from the great 
State of Missouri. Many of the Members know that Bill had been fighting 
a battle with cancer over the last 10 months. Bill lost that battle 
over the weekend.
  Bill served here in Congress for almost 16 years, having first 
started in 1954 as a page here in the House, then going on to work for 
various Members as a staffer here on Capitol Hill. He served on the 
Committee on Agriculture, he served on the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, and he had a career-long interest in the issue of 
hunger, serving as the ranking minority member on the Select Committee 
on Hunger, and then going on to be the cochairman of the Hunger Task 
Force here in the Congress. His interest in hunger was certainly for 
those in a domestic purpose here in our country and also around the 
world.
  I share with all of our Members our grief in losing our dear friend 
Bill. We send our condolences to Jo Ann and Bill's four children, and 
ask them to remember that Bill Emerson was our friend, our colleague, 
and someone we dearly loved.

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