[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO TOM ROGERS

  (Mr. CAPPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I want to take 1 minute to pay tribute to a 
man who is very much admired and respected and loved in our community. 
I refer to the 22d District of California.
  Tom Rogers is an inspiring leader in the environmental movement. He 
is an able, compelling legislator; supervisor for Santa Barbara County. 
He is a human being of incomparable warmth, charm, positive, 
constructive spirit. He is currently involved in an all-out knock-down 
struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease.
  I know I speak for all the citizens in our district in cheering him 
on and telling Tom Rogers and his family that he means the whole world 
to all of us. We thank him profoundly for all that he, his wife Katy, 
and the family have done for our community, but we also thank him for 
his high ideals and for the shoes that he gave me, without which I 
would not have won this seat in Congress.
  We want to cheer him on and we ask that God will be his comfort and 
his strength.

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