[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 125 (Monday, September 30, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HONORING TONY HALL

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                           HON. DEBORAH PRYCE

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 26, 2002

  Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, rise to congratulate and celebrate 
the accomplishments of my fellow Ohioan and good friend, Tony Hall, as 
he is confirmed today as the United States Ambassador to the United 
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy.
  Over the years, I had the pleasure of working with Tony on the House 
Rules Committee, as well as on many issues important to our state. Tony 
has done so much good work for the people of Ohio. However, I rise 
today not just to recognize his service to my state, but to emphasize 
the immeasurable contributions he has made to our nation and our global 
community.
  Tony was a voice of conscious to all of us and kept us keenly aware 
of human rights conditions around the world. Through his far reaching 
travels to the Philippines, East Timor, Paraguay, North Korea, Romania, 
and the former Soviet Union, Tony took an interest in relieving human 
suffering wherever it exists. With his personal experience, Tony was 
able to present us with a greater understanding of the realities of the 
human condition.
  I will always remember Tony's life-long determination to fight and 
alleviate hunger in our poorest neighborhoods, towns, and cities at 
home and around the world. For four years, Tony served as the Chairman 
of the Select Committee on Hunger, and he went on hunger strike to 
protest the abolition of the committee. He founded and chaired the 
Congressional Hunger Center. He sponsored innumerable legislative 
efforts to provide food to war-torn areas around the globe, increase 
assistance to low-income Americans, and fight hunger-related disease.
  His devotion and tireless effort to rid the world of hunger have been 
widely respected and recognized. Tony received the 1992 Silver World 
Food Day Medal from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 
Nations, the United States Committee for UNICEF 1995 Children's 
Legislative Advocate Award, the U.S. AID Presidential End Hunger Award, 
the 1992 Oxfam America Partners Award, the Bread for the World 
Distinguished Service Against Hunger Award, and the NCAA Silver 
Anniversary Award. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize no 
less than three times so far in his career.
  I can think of no individual with more expertise, better experience, 
or a bigger heart to take on this position with the United Nations Food 
and Agriculture Organization.
  Tony has a long and proud record of public service--as a member of 
the Peace Corps, the Ohio House of Representatives. the Ohio Senate, 
and finally as a member of Congress for nearly 24 years. I know that in 
his new role, he will be serve the United States with the same dignity 
and dedication with which he has served in all his prior roles.
  Tony, you will be truly missed around here. We have shared our 
happiness for legislative victories for our state, and shared our grief 
when we lost our children to cancer. You may no longer be a fellow-
Member of the House, but you will always be a friend.
  I congratulate Tony on his life of accomplishments and wish him the 
best of luck in his new position. He will be greatly missed by all of 
us here, and his legacy of passion, determination, and perseverance 
will be remembered and followed here in Congress for years to come.

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