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Norvell Emerson: “As the current chairman of the House Page Board, I wish to pay particular tribute to this very wonderful group of young…”

On the recordJune 6, 1996
As the current chairman of the House Page Board, I wish to pay particular tribute to this very wonderful group of young people who have rendered distinguished service to the 104th Congress. Mr. Speaker, I hope that this experience has been for them everything that we hoped that it would be. As many folks here know, I am a former page and personally know that the House Page Program is a great learning experience, one which I hope this class of pages will remember and benefit from all of their lives. I can truly say that for me in the 83d and 84th Congress being a page was probably the finest, most objective, educational experience of my life. I've said many, many times that you learn as a page by doing and observing and participating, and that is just an awfully lot different than reading about it in the textbooks. So, on behalf of the entire House, I wish all of our departing pages well in their personal endeavors.
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Norvell Emerson
Republican · Missouri
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Paying tribute to the departing class of House pages during a speech.

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