On the recordFebruary 9, 2017
I would also like the Record to reflect that I have never been to Montana. I have been to Delaware, but I respect anything either one of these Senators would say about any physician in Delaware or any physician in Montana. They have never been to Georgia. I have been to Georgia for 72 years. I have lived there for 72 years, and for 30 of those years, I served with Tom Price in the State legislature, in the same neighborhood organizations. He has been my friend. He has been my doctor. He is a great individual, and my knowledge of him is firsthand. I am not going to read to you something that somebody told me Tom Price was or is or did or was accused of. I am going to tell you about the man I know who has been nominated for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. I have known Tom, as I said, for 30 years. He is a great family man. He and his wife Betty are great members of our community. He is a great churchman. He is active in his church in his community. He started out working in neighborhood organizations, graduated to the State legislature, and became the first elected Republican majority leader in the history of the Georgia State Senate. He went from the Georgia State Senate to the Congress to replace me. He raised the intellectual component level of that seat tremendously when I got out and when he came in. He has done a tremendous job here in the seven terms in this Congress, representing the people of my State.…
