NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I, too, rise to mourn the passing of our friend and colleague, Bill Emerson. Being a newcomer to the Congress, I…”

“I, too, rise to mourn the passing of our friend and colleague, Bill Emerson. Being a newcomer to the Congress, I reflected on the words of our colleague from Missouri, Mr. Skelton, on bipartisanship and actions speak louder than words. So it has been on many occasions when I would see both Mr. Skelton and Mr. Emerson sharing a ride across the river to work. In our Cloakroom, there is a picture of a younger Mr. Emerson and our colleague from Pennsylvania, Mr. Kanjorski, when they served as pages in this institution, helping to bear the stretcher of a wounded Member in a terrible episode in our Nation's history. So, yes, this is a time of remembrance. It is also a time for true bipartisanship. Mr. Speaker, I recall that in the middle of some troubled times, one political adversary gave his partisan foe some very good advice. It was Hubert Humphrey who told President Richard Nixon to lay out all the facts, and to come clean on certain issues. I daresay, had Mr. Nixon followed Mr. Humphrey's advice, a lot of the problems we faced in this country would have been eased. In that spirit, Mr. Speaker, without venom or vitriol, in the spirit of true bipartisanship, I would call on this President to release the pertinent documents needed to bring the investigations to a resolute and clear conclusion, so that we may move forward in a bipartisan fashion to clear up questions and to work in a constructive manner in this body.”