[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 61 (Tuesday, May 14, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S4328]
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                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                      TRIBUTE TO HARRISON WILLIAMS

 Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, last November when our former 
colleague Harrison Williams passed away, I don't believe his 
legislative accomplishments were recognized by this body, and I wanted 
to remember my friend, the enormously popular Senator from New Jersey.
  I had the privilege to serve with him for 15 of his 23 years, and he 
achieved more than most people will ever realize because he worked the 
old-fashioned way: making headway, not headlines. He sponsored 
progressive legislation that with 30 or 40 years hindsight, we now see 
has made an incredible difference in millions of people's lives.
  The good mass transit systems we have in our Nation today we have 
because Pete was mass transit's champion. Americans have the best 
safety and environmental working conditions in the world because he 
created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. We have 
pension protections because of him. We have greater accessibility for 
the handicapped because of him. Anything related to worker's rights, or 
working conditions, he had his hand in.
  Like all of us he was not perfect, and he paid a price. But this 
Senator will remember my friend for his legislative accomplishments, 
and believes the words he said himself when he left this Chamber: That 
time, history and Almighty God would vindicate him for the principles 
for which he fought.
  My wife, Peatsy, and I know how much his wife, Jeanette, and his four 
children, miss him, and we hope the best for them.

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