{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1994-10-08-pt1-PgE234", "1994-10-08", 103, 2, null, null, "IN HONOR OF REPRESENTATIVE BILL HUGHES", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "FRONTMATTER", "E", "E", "[{\"name\": \"Romano L. Mazzoli\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "140 Cong. Rec. E", "Congressional Record, Volume 140 Issue 146 (Saturday, October 8, 1994)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 146 (Saturday, October 8, 1994)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n[Congressional Record: October 8, 1994]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]\n\n                 IN HONOR OF REPRESENTATIVE BILL HUGHES\n\n                                 ______\n\n                               speech of\n\n                         HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI\n\n                              of kentucky\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Thursday, October 6, 1994\n\n  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I pay\ntribute to Representative Bill Hughes, my close friend and colleague of\n20 years.\n  Bill Hughes, a native of Salem, NJ, and lifelong resident of New\nJersey, is a consummate Congressman. Since he was first elected to\nCongress in 1974, he has always remembered, in the words of former\nSpeaker of the House Tip O'Neill, that ``* * * all politics is local.''\nIn keeping with this belief, Bill Hughes, throughout his career, has\nspent all but one weekend per year in New Jersey's Second District.\nBill understood early into the game that you never forget who sent you\nhere and you never forget your roots back home.\n  Bill Hughes has devoted much of his professional life in the area of\nlaw enforcement serving 10 years as a prosecuting attorney in Cape May\nCounty, NJ, and 20 years in Congress as a member of the House Judiciary\nCommittee. In his capacity as chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and\nCriminal Justice, he has spearheaded efforts to establish boot camps\nfor the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders and has pushed Congress to\nappropriate funds for new prisons. He has also led the fight against\ncomputer crime, child pornography, firearms violations, arson, drug\noffenders, product tampering, and many other problems plaguing our\nNation.\n  Along with his work as chairman of the Subcommittee on Intellectual\nProperty and Judicial Administration and his work on the Merchant\nMarine and Fisheries Committee, Bill Hughes has also been very\nsupportive of campaign finance reform legislation, an issue in which I\nhave also been very involved. In his own campaigns, Bill Hughes has\nsought to raise most of his campaign funds from small individual\ncontributions, rather than from sources outside the State of New\nJersey. He has limited PAC contributions to less than a third of his\ntotal campaign funds and he suggests that other members follow suit.\n  Through his work as chairman of the Subcommittee on Intellectual\nProperty and Judicial Administration, Bill Hughes has worked diligently\nto protect the interests of authors of software programs and books,\ncomposers, and film makers throughout the country as well as other\nareas of the world. He has also been very instrumental in advancing the\nGATT negotiations, working to remove trade barriers and strengthen the\nU.S. economy.\n  Bill has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions\nincluding: The Senior Distinguished Alumni Award for Rutgers\nUniversity; the Leo Fraser Super Achiever Award from the Juvenile\nDiabetes Foundation; Man of the Year award by the Girl Scouts of\nAmerica and; Congressman of the Year award by the National Association\nof Police Organizations.\n  But above all of these recognitions, Bill Hughes' most lasting\ntribute is that the people of New Jersey's Second Congressional\nDistrict has reposed their faith and trust in him for two decades and\nwould have done so for another two decades or more if Bill and Nancy,\nhis beloved wife, were not anxious to return home to start a new phase\nof their life.\n  For my part, I am losing a friend and a seatmate of long standing. I\nwish him, Nancy, and the family the best of health and happiness in\nretirement.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-1994-10-08-pt1-PgE234"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.42900582775473595, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}