Political Quotes

“over the weekend we were saddened to learn of the death of one of our colleague, Bill Emerson. from the great State of Missouri. Many of the Members know that Bill had been fighting a battle with cancer over the last 10 months. Bill lost that battle over the weekend. Bill served here in Congress for almost 16 years, having first started in 1954 as a page here in the House, then going on to work for various Members as a staffer here on Capitol Hill. He served on the Committee on Agriculture, he served on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and he had a career-long interest in the issue of hunger, serving as the ranking minority member on the Select Committee on Hunger, and then going on to be the cochairman of the Hunger Task Force here in the Congress. His interest in hunger was certainly for those in a domestic purpose here in our country and also around the world. I share with all of our Members our grief in losing our dear friend Bill. We send our condolences to Jo Ann and Bill's four children, and ask them to remember that Bill Emerson was our friend, our colleague, and someone we dearly loved.”