[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3013]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO ROY ROBERTS

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I would like to talk about Roy Roberts 
from Walton County, GA. It is not often that a Senator from Georgia 
rises to pay tribute to a Kentucky basketball player, but Roy Roberts 
played for the famous Adolf Rupp in the 1960s and was an All-SEC 
basketball player for the University of Kentucky. He was a great player 
and made many all-star teams and received many awards, but he came back 
to Georgia to ranch and farm 1,000 acres, raise Hereford cows, and, 
with his two brothers, make Walton County, GA, the centerpiece of our 
State.
  He has annually participated in many things that involve politics and 
public involvement in Walton County and has helped to lead Walton 
County to be one of the leading Republican counties in the State of 
Georgia.
  Most notable is the Roy Roberts annual barbecue, which takes place 
next Tuesday in Walton County, GA, where over 1,000 Georgians and 
Presidential candidates from all over the country will come to meet at 
Roy Roberts' farm, enjoy a little barbecue, and enjoy the best of 
grassroots politics.
  Were it not for people like Roy Roberts, we wouldn't have the body 
politic we have, we wouldn't have the democracy we have, and Georgia 
would not be the great State it is.
  I am pleased to rise today and commend to everyone the work of 
citizen Roy Roberts, a great American, a great Georgian, and a pretty 
doggone good basketball player for the University of Kentucky.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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