{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgS11814-2", "2000-12-15", 106, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO SENATOR CHUCK ROBB", "SENATE", "SENATE", "TRIBUTETO", "S11814", "S11814", "[{\"name\": \"Edward M. Kennedy\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "146 Cong. Rec. S11814", "Congressional Record, Volume 146 Issue 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S11814]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                     TRIBUTE TO SENATOR CHUCK ROBB\n\n  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, during the last few moments, several of\nour colleagues gave tribute to our friend. He is my friend and is\nsomeone so many of us admire here in the Senate. He is someone who has\nmade a difference in this body and this country with his deep\ncommitment to public service.\n  Reference was made this afternoon to Senator Robb and his service in\nVietnam. He fought for our country and served in the Armed Forces.\nBecause of his strong beliefs and commitments to the values of the\nNation, he made it his responsibility to respond to the Nation's call.\n  This is a real reflection of the strong commitment and the basic\nintegrity of this extraordinary Senator and friend. He fought in\nVietnam for the values he believed in deeply. He came back to this\ncountry served as a distinguished Governor of a great State, the State\nof Virginia. And he continued that service in the Senate.\n  Chuck Robb was a neighbor of mine. We have lived as neighbors for a\nnumber of years. He and Lynda have been good and valued friends over a\ngreat many years.\n  I have enjoyed working with him in the area of education. He has a\nfierce passion to try to make sure every child in this country is going\nto have a good quality education. Even though he is not a member of the\neducation committee, he mastered this subject and also provided very\nimportant leadership in it.\n  I think so much of what is included in this dual appropriations\nlegislation--which we hope we will have an opportunity to address in\nthese next several hours and days--is really a tribute to the strong\nstands he took on good quality education for the children not just of\nVirginia but the children of this country.\n  I think he was always concerned about the balance between the\nexpenditures and what the economy could stand. He is in every respect a\nfiscal conservative. He believed deeply in making sure we had a budget\nthat was going to reflect our values, but also that we were going to\ntake care that our resources were going to be well spent in the\nnational interest.\n  Finally, I want to mention an additional field where his leadership\nwas very much in evidence; that is, in knocking down the walls of\ndiscrimination in all of the forms and shapes that have been presented\nin recent years. That is a defining issue for our country. America will\nnever be America until we free ourselves from all types and all forms\nof discrimination.\n  There was never a battle in any of the areas involving discrimination\nin which Chuck Robb was not a leader. I will miss him on this Senate\nfloor.\n  I join with my other colleagues in paying tribute to his service to\nthe Senate, but most importantly to his State and also to our Nation.\nHe has a great opportunity in the future for continued service. I think\nall Members in this body wish him well and look forward to\nopportunities of work with him closely again.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.\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-2000-12-15-pt1-PgS11814-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.757138900458813, "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"}