Roy Blunt: “about a year ago I began to work closely on a number of projects with Senator Paul Coverdell from Georgia. I just want…”

“about a year ago I began to work closely on a number of projects with Senator Paul Coverdell from Georgia. I just want to take some time today to express my appreciation for his great work for the House, the Senate, for America, and extend our best wishes to him and his wife, Nancy, as they deal with the challenge to his health right now. Senator Coverdell brings humility to this job, a humility that is rare in public office. He brings dedication, an ability to work hard, a tremendous insight, and certainly those of us in the House benefit more than we know by his hard work in the Senate, his hard work for this process. I would like for him and his wife, Nancy, to know that we are thinking about them as he deals with this health challenge, and that we need him back here. We hope for his speedy recovery. We know that if anybody can meet this challenge in an extraordinary way, Paul Coverdell can.”