{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgS11822-2", "2000-12-15", 106, 2, null, null, "RETIREMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN", "SENATE", "SENATE", "RETIREMENT", "S11822", "S11822", "[{\"name\": \"Patrick J. Leahy\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "146 Cong. Rec. S11822", "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 S11822]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n             RETIREMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN\n\n  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, it is with great sorrow, but also great\npride, that this Senate retires one of its most eloquent, learned, and\nsuccessful Members--the senior Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick\nMoynihan.\n  I have known my distinguished colleague for over two decades,\nadmiring his compassion, his dedication, and his acumen on key issues,\nfrom environmental protection to social, racial, and economic justice\nfor all. It has been an honor and education to have worked with him on\nthe critical issues of eradicating poverty, elevating human rights, and\npromoting peace around the world. He and I have also worked together\ncloser to home, protecting and restoring the precious waters of Lake\nChamplain--a glacially-carved jewel of New England that spans 120\nnorthern miles between our neighboring states, half claimed on my side,\nhalf claimed on his.\n  Twenty-four years of distinguished service in the United States\nSenate would be a legacy in and of itself for any man. Yet my\ncolleague, Senator Moynihan, has done so much more. He served our\ncountry for a full twenty years in the Naval Reserve, with three years\nof active Navy duty at the end of the second World War. He has been a\nFulbright Scholar and a professor of government at Harvard University.\nHe has the unique distinction of serving in four successive\nPresidential administrations--the only person in American history to\nhave ever done so. He represented our country as a distinguished\nAmbassador to India, a representative to the United Nations, and\nPresident of the U.N. Security Council. He has served on countless\npublic and private sector commissions, committees, and panels,\naddressing issues from education to science to finance. Most recently,\nhe chaired the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government\nSecrecy--a key commission that examined our nation's secrecy laws and\nled to his authorship of ``Secrecy: The American Experience.'' This\nbook joins the seventeen other works of literature that my friend and\ncolleague has written or edited.\n  What I will miss in many ways are those special times we would have\nwhen some Members would gather in the Senate dining room and a person\nwould bring up a question of history; then we would receive a tutorial\nfrom Professor Moynihan. I see my good friend, the deputy Democratic\nleader, on the floor, the Senator from Nevada, smiling because he knows\nwhat those were like. I recall a couple times when we had so many\nDemocrats and Republicans crowded into the Democratic part of the\ndining room to hear Senator Moynihan tie together something from the\ntime of Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan, to the current time,\nand show what the connection was, somebody would have to call up to the\nSenate Chamber and explain, keep the rollcall going a bit longer; at\nleast a quorum of the Senate has to hear the end of this story before\nwe can come to vote.\n  My good friend will be missed in the Senate, but I wish him well and\nenvy him the time he will now have to spend with his lovely wife of 44\nyears, Liz, his three wonderful children, and his precious\ngrandchildren. I join the entire Senate and this Nation in wishing\nSenator Moynihan well in his new life and commending him for his\ntireless dedication and service to the people of this country and our\nworld.\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-PgS11822-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 16.63169008679688, "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"}