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Harry Johnston: “I guess the politics of Bill Emerson and myself were 180 degrees apart. We were diagonally opposite. He is a…”

On the recordJune 25, 1996
I guess the politics of Bill Emerson and myself were 180 degrees apart. We were diagonally opposite. He is a conservative, I am a liberal. He was for a constitutional amendment against flag burning, I was against that. He was for English only, I was against that. He was pro-life, I am pro-choice. But Bill Emerson is pro-life in the ultimate sense. Without him, without Frank, who just spoke, without Tony Hall, a lot of Africans would die this year of starvation. Bill Emerson interceded, and Frank Wolf and he went to the leadership and got food aid put back in the budget last year. He was a close friend, and I personally will miss him.
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Harry Johnston
Democratic · Florida
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Paying tribute to Bill Emerson and discussing their political differences.

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