John Boehner: “I come to remember my good friend and our good friend, Charlie Norwood. I met Charlie in October of 1994 when he was a…”

“I come to remember my good friend and our good friend, Charlie Norwood. I met Charlie in October of 1994 when he was a candidate for Congress for the first time and had dinner with him one night before we went off on a 16-city tour. I didn't think it would ever end. But at dinner that night, I looked at Charlie and I asked, Why are you running for Congress? And he said, That OSHA, that OSHA, they did this to me and did this to me. And for every day that Charlie Norwood served in this Congress, he was all over OSHA, to have rules and regulations that met the straight-face test. Clearly the most difficult member I have ever had to try to manage. And whether it was the Patients' Bill of Rights, whether it was OSHA, or a host of other issues, when Charlie got that bone in his mouth, you could not get it out of his mouth. He was the most dogged, persistent Member I have ever worked with. As a matter of fact, I might even say he might be the most dogged persistent person that I have ever met with because when Charlie picked up a cause, he was never going to leave it alone until he accomplished his goal.”