[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 27, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H3085]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WELCOMING THE REVEREND ROY SMITH

  (Mr. ROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROSS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Reverend Roy P. 
Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas. I first met Roy in 1992 when he moved 
to my hometown of Prescott, Arkansas, to lead the church that my family 
and I belong to, the First United Methodist Church of Prescott. During 
his 3 years in my hometown, Roy was my pastor, my spiritual adviser, 
and a leader in our community. By the time Roy, along with his wife 
Sandy, daughter Martha Helen and son Andrew left Prescott to move on to 
their next assignment up the road in Malvern, Arkansas, Roy had become 
one of my closest and most trusted personal friends.
  My family and the Smith family will be forever linked together by a 
strong and lasting bond of friendship, and it is a distinct pleasure to 
have Reverend Roy Smith here today to open this legislative day in the 
United States House of Representatives with his thoughtful and 
meaningful words of prayer. As we go about doing the work of the 
people, may we remember the prayer Reverend Roy Smith delivered on the 
floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this day.

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