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Floyd Spence: “I rise today to pay tribute to our late colleague, Sam Hall of Texas. It is with a great degree of sadness that I…”

On the recordMay 25, 1994
I rise today to pay tribute to our late colleague, Sam Hall of Texas. It is with a great degree of sadness that I recognize his passing. Sam Hall was a true gentleman and a statesman. It was an honor for me to serve with him in the Congress from 1976 until 1985, when he resigned to accept an appointment as a U.S. judge for the Eastern District of Texas. It is certainly appropriate that Sam Hall completed his career as a jurist on the Federal bench, as he truly loved the law. While a Member of Congress, he devoted much of his attention to the work of the Committee on the Judiciary, and, as a lawyer's lawyer, he relished the action of the courtroom. Sam Hall was a dedicated lawmaker, a very capable judge, and a friend to many. He will be greatly missed.
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Floyd Spence
South Carolina
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Paying tribute to the late Congressman Sam Hall during a floor speech.

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