{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2120-2", "2002-11-22", 107, 2, null, null, "HONORING DR. MARTIN EICHELBERGER", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "HONORING", "E2120", "E2120", "[{\"name\": \"Steny H. Hoyer\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "148 Cong. Rec. E2120", "Congressional Record, Volume 148 Issue 152 (Friday, November 22, 2002)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 152 (Friday, November 22, 2002)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2120]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                    HONORING DR. MARTIN EICHELBERGER\n\n                                 ______\n\n                          HON. STENY H. HOYER\n\n                              of maryland\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, November 22, 2002\n\n  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Martin Eichelberger is a Professor of\nSurgery and of Pediatrics at George Washington University and Director\nof Emergency Trauma and Burn Service at the Children's National Medical\nCenter, in Washington, DC. He is also president and cofounder of the\nNational SAFE KIDS Campaign, and a nationally recognized pediatric\ntrauma surgeon.\n  The reason Dr. Eichelberger is so highly regarded became evident on\nMonday, October 7, when he was called out of a skin graft surgery to\nbegin preparing for a 13-year-old shooting victim who was on his way to\nChildren's Hospital from the Bowie Health Center. The boy had been shot\nby the Washington-area snipers in front of Benjamin Tasker Middle\nSchool, and the dozens of fragments from the sniper's bullet had done\nextensive and life-threatening damage to a number of the boy's vital\norgans.\n  Dr. Eichelberger and his team immediately began to make critical\ndecisions about which organs could be saved, and which ones were beyond\nrepair and needed to be removed. The right decisions were made, and the\ntwo and a half hour operation saved the boy's life. Although this brave\nyoung man faces a long and challenging road to recovery, I am pleased\nto report that he has been released from the hospital, and I am hopeful\nthat he will in fact make a full recovery from his injuries.\n  Mr. Speaker, this 13-year-old young man is one of the countless\nyoungsters who have been touched by the gifts of Mr. Eichelberger and\nwhose lives have been saved or made better by his compassionate\ndedication to public service. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the\nRights of the Child states that ``Mankind owes to the child the best it\nhas to give.'' I am proud to say that in Dr. Eichelberger, we have\ngiven Washington area youngsters the best we have.\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-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2120-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 97.63254295103252, "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"}