[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRIBUTE TO THE LATE BILL EMERSON

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor our former colleague, 
the gentleman from Missouri, Bill Emerson, who passed away a year ago 
after a long and valiant battle.
  Bill was known for his bipartisanship, his ability to bring people 
together to work on hunger. Bill and I and the gentleman from Ohio, 
Tony Hall, and a few others were in a small covenant group that met 
every Tuesday in the Capitol chapel to talk with each other, to pray 
with each other, and to support each other.
  I was privileged to know Bill. He was a person of character, a person 
of courage, a person of integrity. Bill loved history more than anyone 
else that I knew, and Bill loved to talk about Lincoln; Bill loved to 
talk about Winston Churchill.
  I can see where Bill is; in heaven where Lincoln and Churchill and 
Bill are talking together, and Lincoln is talking about how it was in 
the 1850's and 1860's, Churchill is talking about how it was in World 
War I and World War II, and Bill Emerson is talking about how it really 
was in the 1970's the 1980's and the 1990's.
  Bill made every effort to live by the principles of Jesus, and he set 
an example for this entire Congress to live by. Every time I see the 
gentlewoman from Missouri, Mrs. Jo Ann Emerson, and the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Kanjorski, and the gentleman from Missouri, Mr. 
Skelton, who he rode with, and many others, I think of Bill.

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