Roy Blunt: “I will tell you that the Member that it would have been the most impossible to convince to do anything he didn't want to…”

“I will tell you that the Member that it would have been the most impossible to convince to do anything he didn't want to do was Charlie Norwood. He was here to do what he thought was the right thing to do. It wasn't always what I thought was the right thing, but it was what he thought was the right thing and he was going to do it. The toughness, the courage, the determination of Charlie Norwood was extraordinary among an extraordinary group of people. Just this struggle that we have witnessed with Charlie's health, a struggle that he faced uncomplainingly as he sat day after day over in that corner recovering from massive surgery, but, as Chairman Barton showed in the letter he got in recent days, never giving up on the job he was doing for the people he served. The people that sent him here should be proud, the people who worked with him should be proud. The people of the United States would be proud if they knew the great and tireless job that Charlie Norwood did for them every day. And I am honored to have had a chance to serve with him and call him my friend.”