[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 111 (Monday, July 11, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4580-H4581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING REPRESENTATIVE CARL ROGERS ON HIS RETIREMENT

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor today to rise and 
to make notice of Representative Carl Rogers, State representative from 
Georgia, who is ending his 22-year career in the State legislature. I 
want to congratulate him on his retirement. He has served the 
Gainesville, Hall County area for 22 years. He has served under four 
Governors, including the last being under his friend, Governor Nathan 
Deal.
  Carl was the epitome of a citizen legislator. He knew his people, and 
he knew what was best; and sometimes,

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whether he was making calls that people understood or even calls that 
people were critical of, Carl was always the same.
  Carl's wife, Linda, has stood by him all these years. They have been 
married 49 years. Now she is getting him home. For those of us who know 
Carl, sometimes we think that will be good or bad, but Linda has had 
Carl for that many years, and she is wonderful.
  On one special note, Mr. Speaker, Carl's public service transcends, 
but it is what the man does in private that means a lot. When I was in 
Iraq in 2008, separated from my family at Christmas, one night I got a 
text from my wife. When my family was celebrating Christmas without me, 
Carl showed up on my front doorstep with Christmas presents for my 
children.
  Carl Rogers, you will be missed sorely in the Georgia Legislature, 
but I still count you as one of my dearest friends.

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