[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN BILL EMERSON
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to associate myself with the
remarks of all of those who have spoken here. I have sat here and I
wanted to listen to all of the things about the life of Bill Emerson,
because I never was to his house. I did not know his family. But I knew
Bill Emerson, the man, and I knew him as the Congressman, and like each
and every one of you, I liked him very much.
We served together on a couple of key issues, one of them the issue
of smoking. Bill Emerson was never one to involve himself in denial. He
always was straightforward. He was legitimate. He told you what he felt
on an issue. He backed it up and corroborated it with sound fact, data,
and analysis.
I just simply want to rise today to say to Missouri, to the family of
this fine man, that you elected a great Congressman. He paid attention
to detail, he never forgot the constituent matters that are most
important. Ladies and gentlemen, we are representatives of the people.
Representation is what we shall do, and a prime example of that was
Bill Emerson.
My condolences to the family. I would hope that after all of this, we
would reflect on the life of Bill Emerson, and all of us may be a
little better in our service as representatives of the American people.
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