[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 21, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H4787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WELCOMING REVEREND DR. NELSON PRICE

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it is a wonderful pleasure and true 
honor along with my colleague Johnny Isakson of the Sixth District to 
welcome Reverend Nelson Price to this great body, the people's House, 
today. We also extend a welcome on behalf of the House of 
Representatives to his lovely wife Trudy who is with him here today.
  Reverend Price has been the pastor at Roswell Street Baptist Church, 
as the Speaker indicated, for close to 35 years. During those 35 years, 
he has ministered to countless thousands of God's children, both in his 
parish, visitors to his parish, citizens of his community, citizens of 
this land and indeed citizens around the world.
  His voice truly, Mr. Speaker, is one of those voices that President 
Reagan spoke about in his second inaugural address of 1985 when he 
spoke of the American sound. The American sound that in the words of 
President Reagan echoed out across the prairies, across the mountains 
as the settlers moved west, as our Nation prospered, as our Nation 
fought wars during the lonely hours of Presidents seeking to retain the 
Union and preserve the Union, that American sound, as President Reagan 
admonished all of us in 1985, is always waiting to be passed on as a 
torch to a new generation so that it continues to echo for freedom, 
truth, honor and dignity and the belief and a recognition that our 
Nation truly was founded by the hand of God and to whom we have a 
special responsibility.
  We heard a continuation of that American sound today in the words of 
Reverend Nelson Price. As Nelson Price prepares to retire from the 
active ministry at the end of this year in November after 35 years as 
the pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church and its some 9,000 members, 
I know that I speak for all Members of this body and for the Speaker in 
wishing him well and Godspeed.

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