{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2134", "2002-11-22", 107, 2, null, null, "HONORING FORMER CONGRESSMAN BUD SHUSTER", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "HONORING", "E2134", "E2134", "[{\"name\": \"James L. Oberstar\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "148 Cong. Rec. E2134", "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 E2134]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                HONORING FORMER CONGRESSMAN BUD SHUSTER\n\n                                 ______\n\n                         HON. JAMES L. OBERSTAR\n\n                              of minnesota\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, November 22, 2002\n\n  Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express congratulations to\na former colleague, Congressman Bud Shuster of Pennsylvania, for an\nhonor he recently received.\n  Earlier this week, Bud Shuster was named the ``Transportation Person\nof the Century'' by the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors (APC) in\nhonor of the tremendous contributions he has made to the nation's\ntransportation and infrastructure systems. It is a tribute to Bud that\nAPC rightly recognized the role that he played in ensuring that our\ncommunities have transportation choices, such as transit, rail systems,\npedestrian walkways, Amtrak, and bike paths.\n  Bud Shuster spent his career building America. Bud served in the\nHouse of Representatives for 28 years, six of those as Chairman of the\nHouse Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the largest and most\nproductive committee in Congress. His perseverance, patience and\nwillingness to find common ground made him one of the greatest\ncommittee chairmen we have seen in recent years in the House. His\nextraordinary achievements as Chairman speak for themselves, and he has\nthe respect of his former colleagues on both sides of the aisle.\n  Part of the joy of working on the Transportation and Infrastructure\nCommittee is the way in which we work together to develop bipartisan\nbills. As a committee, we worked extraordinarily well over the six\nyears of Bud's leadership. I had the pleasure of working with him on\nmany major pieces of legislation to improve the nation's transportation\nand infrastructure systems, including TEA-21 and AIR-21. Throughout his\nservice on the Transportation Committee, Bud Shuster demonstrated\neffective bipartisan leadership in showing that transportation,\ninfrastructure and environmental programs make a real difference in all\nAmericans' lives.\n  He retired from this body at the beginning of the 107th Congress, and\nsince that time, I have missed him, not only for his policy expertise,\nbut also for his friendship. I commend and congratulate Bud Shuster on\nhis distinguished career as a public servant.\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-PgE2134"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6913129473105073, "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"}