If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

In December 2006 he underwent chemotherapy for cancer which had spread to his liver. He became the first Republican to represent his northeastern Georgia district since Reconstruction. In 1968 he was transferred to the Medical Company (Company B-Med) of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam and served a combat tour at Quin Yon An Khe and LZ English at Bong Son.

At the time of his death Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia. D. D.