[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17502]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   ON THE PASSING OF THE HON. HERBERT H. BATEMAN, MEMBER OF CONGRESS

  (Mr. HORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HORN. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bateman) was 
a beloved person in this Chamber; and the tragedy, as he is retiring, 
we all felt that way, that it would be a real loss. Now it is a real 
loss generally to humanity.
  But the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bateman) was, without question, 
the most ethical Member of Congress one could ever find. He also was 
one who, when he got up to speak, people listened because they knew he 
had given great depth of thought to the matter at hand and they knew 
that he was generally doing the right thing. It is a real loss to the 
colleagues that he could not finish out this Congress.
  Wherever he is, and I suspect he is in the right place up above, and 
if he is there, he will probably share the parliamentarian's role, also 
the role of being very thorough about whatever he does.

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