April 8, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 60 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                       Remembering Fritz Hollings

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, today I wish to start off by just 
sharing a few words about our former colleague, Senator Fritz 
Hollings--Ernest F. Hollings, to be precise--of South Carolina. He 
passed away this weekend at his home in Isle of Palms.
  With Fritz Hollings, the people of South Carolina, the Senate, have 
lost a giant. Hollings was the longest serving junior Senator in 
American history--behind, of course, Strom Thurmond--representing his 
constituents for 38 years in the Senate.
  Before that, he was a Governor, State legislator, and World War II 
veteran. Public service was his life's calling. He championed education 
reform, increasing teachers' pay, a national voice in the fights 
against hunger and poverty.
  He was brought up in the old Jim Crow days, with a great deal of 
segregation, but as he went through South Carolina, he realized how 
terrible that was and began to move in the opposite direction.
  He was an original. You could always go over to Fritz Hollings. Even 
when I was a younger legislator, he would pay attention, and he would 
have something very interesting to say.
  Everyone talks about the days of blow-dried, look-alike Senators. 
Fritz Hollings certainly wasn't one of them. He was an original, and we 
were all much better for it.
  So Fritz, we will miss you, and our thoughts go with your family, as 
do our prayers and well wishes.