[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  MOURNING THE PASSING OF BILL EMERSON

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I, too, rise to mourn the passing of our 
friend and colleague, Bill Emerson. Being a newcomer to the Congress, I 
reflected on the words of our colleague from Missouri, Mr. Skelton, on 
bipartisanship and actions speak louder than words. So it has been on 
many occasions when I would see both Mr. Skelton and Mr. Emerson 
sharing a ride across the river to work. In our Cloakroom, there is a 
picture of a younger Mr. Emerson and our colleague from Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Kanjorski, when they served as pages in this institution, helping 
to bear the stretcher of a wounded Member in a terrible episode in our 
Nation's history. So, yes, this is a time of remembrance. It is also a 
time for true bipartisanship.
  Mr. Speaker, I recall that in the middle of some troubled times, one 
political adversary gave his partisan foe some very good advice. It was 
Hubert Humphrey who told President Richard Nixon to lay out all the 
facts, and to come clean on certain issues. I daresay, had Mr. Nixon 
followed Mr. Humphrey's advice, a lot of the problems we faced in this 
country would have been eased.
  In that spirit, Mr. Speaker, without venom or vitriol, in the spirit 
of true bipartisanship, I would call on this President to release the 
pertinent documents needed to bring the investigations to a resolute 
and clear conclusion, so that we may move forward in a bipartisan 
fashion to clear up questions and to work in a constructive manner in 
this body.

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