{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1994-10-08-pt1-PgE239", "1994-10-08", 103, 2, null, null, "A TRIBUTE TO REPRESENTATIVE DON EDWARDS", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "FRONTMATTER", "E", "E", "[{\"name\": \"Charles B. Rangel\", \"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                A TRIBUTE TO REPRESENTATIVE DON EDWARDS\n\n                                 ______\n\n                               speech of\n\n                         HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL\n\n                              of new york\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Thursday, October 6, 1994\n\n  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, please join me in honoring our distinguished\ncolleague, Representative Don Edwards, who is retiring from the House\nof Representatives at the end of this, the 103d Congress,\nRepresentative Edwards, the dean of the California delegation, has\nrepresented his San Jose district with considerable distinction since\n1962.\n  Representative Don Edwards was born and raised in the community that\nhe now represents. He attended public schools in San Jose and received\nboth his bachelors and juris doctorate degrees from nearby Stanford\nUniversity. Don served as a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from\n1940 to 1941, and during World War II as a Naval intelligence officer\nand gunnery officer at sea. He and his wife, Edith B. Wilkie, a native\nNew Yorker and presently executive director of the Arms Control and\nForeign Policy Caucus, raised five sons: Judge Leonard Perry Edwards\nand Judge Thomas C. Edwards, both of Santa Clara County Superior Court;\nSamuel Dwyer Edwards, a software designer living in Portola Valley; Dr.\nBruce Haven Edwards, a mathematics professor at the University of\nFlorida; and William Don Edwards, a San Jose lawyer. By perpetuating\nthe leadership and commitment to serving fellow human beings, these\nfive men will serve, perhaps, a Don and Edith's greatest legacy.\n  Matching his legacy of congressional service, which he will bestow\nupon the Members of this body in a few short weeks, will prove\ndifficult, if not impossible. Upon arriving in Washington, he made\nclear his goals to serve the people of San Jose and southern San\nFrancisco Bay and to defend the liberties and laws of the Constitution.\nWorking with both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Representative\nEdwards was the floor leader in the enactment of the 1964 Omnibus Civil\nRights Act and the Voting Rights of 1965. He participated in civil\nrights demonstrations and marches in Washington and throughout the\nSouth. In 1963, he visited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the\nBirmingham Jail. Later, he helped to shepherd the equal rights\namendment through the House and authored both the Freedom of Choice Act\nand the Religious Freedom Act. His respect for civil liberties and\nconsistent support of those principles have led many of us to refer to\nMr. Edwards as ``The Conscience of the Congress.''\n  Representative Edwards never wavered in his adherence to those\nprinciples, even when it led to helping those outside of this body's\nrealm. Whether referring to his work on oversight of the FBI, United\nStates involvement in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, or South Africa,\nDon brought his integrity and decency with him. It has touched all who\nknow him.\n  And by doing so, Don Edwards has better served his constituency and\nhis country. In his 32 years of service, Mr. Edwards's legislation has:\ndoubled the size of the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge; established\nenvironmental education centers in Alviso and Fremont; given copyright\nprotection to semiconductor manufacturers; streamlined export\nlicensing; helped build the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse and\nFederal Building in San Jose, and many other highway, flood control,\nearthquake relief, and rail projects.\n  I find it perfectly appropriate that we honor Representative Edwards\nin the same week that this body honored President Nelson Mandela of the\nRepublic of South Africa and welcomed him here to address Congress and\nthe Nation. Like President Mandela, Don Edwards believes that our\nsociety's enemy is never an organization, an event, a symbol, or a race\nof people. Humanity's true enemies are tyranny, contempt for liberty,\nand injustice. In waging a never-ending battle against these foes, Don\nhas transcended the legislative works of this body. In doing so, he has\ninspired generations of constituents, colleagues, and friends,\nincluding this humble legislator.\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-PgE239"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.836499061435461, "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"}