{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-1998-12-17-pt1-PgE2337-2", "1998-12-17", 105, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO FORMER CONGRESSMAN ROMAN PUCINSKI", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "TRIBUTETO", "E2337", "E2337", "[{\"name\": \"William O. Lipinski\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "144 Cong. Rec. E2337", "Congressional Record, Volume 144 Issue 153 (Thursday, December 17, 1998)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 153 (Thursday, December 17, 1998)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2337]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n              TRIBUTE TO FORMER CONGRESSMAN ROMAN PUCINSKI\n\n                                 ______\n\n                        HON. WILLIAM O. LIPINSKI\n\n                              of illinois\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Thursday, December 17, 1998\n\n  Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Roman\nPucinski, who represented the northwest side of the City of Chicago in\nthe U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1973.\n  From the start of his tenure in Congress, then Representative\nPucinski mounted a one-man effort to require airlines to install crash-\nproof cockpit voice recorders in airplanes. Despite organized\nopposition from the major airlines, Pucinski kept the pressure on and\nin 1964 the Federal Aviation Administration issued an order requiring\nair carriers to install crash-proof cockpit voice recorders in their\naircraft. Commonly referred to as the ``black box'', cockpit voice\nrecorders are now a critical component of aviation safety. Black boxes\nprovide vital information about the final minutes of airline disasters\nto accident investigators and have helped determine the cause of\nseveral plane crashes.\n  As a decorated Air Force pilot, Pucinski knew that a recording of\nlast minute cockpit conversations would provide vital clues to the\ncause of airline tragedies. As an Air Force pilot, Pucinski led his\nbomber group in the first B-29 bombing raid over Tokyo during World War\nII. He flew 48 other combat missions over Japan and was awarded the\nDistinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with Clusters. From his own\npersonal experience as a pilot, Pucinski understood that, in the last\nfew minutes preceding an air tragedy, the cockpit crew are far too busy\ntrying to save their passengers and aircraft to radio formal reports to\na ground station. However, a crash-proof tape recorder operating\nautomatically during flight preserves a record of everything said in\nthe cockpit for accident investigators.\n  Because of Roman Pucinski's dedicated and courageous leadership in\nthe establishment of crash-proof tape recorders in commercial\nairliners, accident investigation and aviation safety have been\nsignificantly advanced in the public interest, and outstanding results\nfor the national aviation system have been achieved. For this reason,\non December 18, 1998, former Congressman Roman Pucinski will be honored\nby the Federal Aviation Administration with a Silver Medal of\nDistinguished Service.\n  I urge my colleagues to join me in congratulating Roman Pucinski. His\ntireless advocacy of cockpit voice recorders is one of the most\nimportant contributions to airline safety in the history of aviation.\nRoman Pucinski has made a lasting contribution to aviation safety and\nhe greatly deserves this special honor from the Federal Aviation\nAdministration.\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-1998-12-17-pt1-PgE2337-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.466644953936338, "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"}