[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 136 (Friday, September 27, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO THE HON. WILLIAM CLINGER

  (Mr. HOUGHTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOUGHTON. Mr. Speaker, we are winding down the 104th Congress. 
Whether it is tonight or tomorrow or the night after tomorrow, we will 
be finished. But a very distinguished person will be leaving this 
Chamber.
  I just wanted to say a word about him, a man called William Clinger 
from Warren, PA. He is the type of person that represents the finest 
this Chamber has to offer.

                              {time}  1930

  He is a thoughtful man; not a thoughtful man, but a thoughtful man, a 
man with a precise concept of the significant, somebody who is always 
there, always decent. You know we have got a lot of discordant sounds 
around here. People are unhappy with the lack of comity. It is not just 
words we say about bringing people together, it is example, and if 
there is one thing that will be left in our memory, my memory 
certainly, it is the example of William Clinger in terms of 
representing the decency and the concept and the verve of this place 
the way it should be played under any circumstance.

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