Charles Norwood: “Mr. Speaker, it is a great pleasure and actually an honor for me to be here presenting this bill to the House of…”

“Mr. Speaker, it is a great pleasure and actually an honor for me to be here presenting this bill to the House of Representatives on behalf of one of my constituents, Dr. J. Roy Rowland. Dr. Rowland was very instrumental, while in Washington, on health care issues and one of the most, I think, outstanding examples of bipartisanship that I know of in this Congress in recent years. In 1993 and 1994, in the 103d Congress, he put together a coalition of five Republicans and five Democrats to try to help solve some of the serious problems that we have in this country with health care. It was later known as the Rowland-Democrat-Bilirakis-Republican health care bill and it sort of set the stage for how we work together with our colleagues. Dr. Rowland is a good man. Dr. Rowland is a great American, and I am so very pleased that we are today in the process of renaming the U.S. Federal courthouse in Dublin, GA, after him as a token of all of our esteem here and as a token of the esteem that his constituents back in Georgia still hold him.”