[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 144 (Thursday, October 6, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 6, 1994]
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      TRIBUTE TO DR. J. ROY ROWLAND, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

  Mr. COVERDELL. Mr. President. I rise today to honor a very 
distinguished colleague of mine from Georgia in the U.S. House of 
Representatives, Dr. J. Roy Rowland. The people of Georgia have been 
aware of Roy's dedication to his work as a physician for more than 40 
years and as a elected official for 18 years. I have had the distinct 
pleasure of working with Roy in the Georgia State Legislature and again 
here in Congress.
  I know Roy to be a physician of great knowledge and compassion, and a 
legislator of unequalled vigor and character. During his tenure in 
Washington, Roy has championed the causes of veterans' affairs, the 
environment, fiscal responsibility and health care among others. But it 
is for his efforts on health care during this, his last year in the 
House, that will be his legacy to the people of Georgia and the United 
States.
  Roy has worked tirelessly on health care since his graduation from 
medical school in 1952, and he made major inroads in the health care 
reform debate. The debate will be renewed next year and Roy's effort 
will be the building block for a health care bill that suits all 
Americans.
  I have always admired Roy's ethics and principles as a legislator. A 
doctor is asked to take the Hippocratic oath and live by the standard 
set forth by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, to ``follow a system 
of regimen, which according to his ability and judgment, he considers 
for the benefit of his patients, and abstain from whatever is 
deleterious and mischievous.'' Roy Rowland applied that standard not 
only to his medical practice but also to his role as a legislator. 
Although we will miss his voice in Congress, I know he will continue to 
fight for his beliefs and the people of Georgia as he returns to our 
State.

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