{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2002-11-22-pt1-PgE2137-4", "2002-11-22", 107, 2, null, null, "HONORING VIRGINIA GAINES FOX", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "HONORING", "E2137", "E2138", "[{\"name\": \"Ernie Fletcher\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "148 Cong. Rec. E2137", "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[Pages E2137-E2138]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                      HONORING VIRGINIA GAINES FOX\n\n                                 ______\n\n                          HON. ERNIE FLETCHER\n\n                              of kentucky\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, November 22, 2002\n\n  Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, It is an honor to rise today to pay\ntribute to a trailblazer, a visionary, a dedicated public servant, and\na Kentucky original. I speak of the inimitable Virginia Gaines Fox,\npresident and CEO of Kentucky Educational Television, who is retiring\nnext month after 42 years of service in public broadcasting.\n  Virginia Fox--or Ginni, as she is known by her friends and\ncolleagues--has created a legacy of innovation, public service and the\nhighest standards of excellence. Under her astute leadership, she has\nbuilt KET into an industry leader. Kentucky Educational Television is\nthe number one provider of adult education in America, providing\nthousands of broadcast hours of instructional programming to classrooms\nand hundreds of hours of professional\n\n[[Page E2138]]\n\ndevelopment resources to Kentucky's K-12 instructors. KET's GED on TV\nprogram has helped 11,400 adults in Kentucky--and literally millions\nmore across the country--to earn their high school diploma.\n  KET is also leading the way in the industry's digital conversion,\npioneering datacasting services for Kentucky communities in partnership\nwith Federal, State and local agencies--particularly in the area of\npublic safety, weather alerts, and homeland security. This initiative\nis serving as a model for similar efforts around the country.\n  Virginia Fox has been an innovator in distance learning throughout\nher prestigious career. She was a founding member of the\ncongressionally-created Independent Television Service (ITVS) Board and\ncreated the first national ITV satellite schedule, serving more than 23\nmillion students annually with distance learning curricula. She also\nfounded the Satellite Educational Resources Consortium, the first\npublic broadcasting/Department of Education interstate consortium for\ndistance learning.\n  Virginia Fox's career is highlighted by numerous personal as well as\nprofessional accomplishments. She broke the glass ceiling by becoming\nthe first female CEO of a national organization in public broadcasting.\nShe has served on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and\nchaired the Public Television Outreach Alliance. She received an\nhonorary doctorate from her alma mater, Morehead State University, and\nearlier was named Appalachian Woman of the Year by that same\ninstitution. This year, she was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism\nHall of Fame and received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's\nLifetime Achievement Award.\n  A seventh-generation Kentuckian, Virginia Fox proves once again that\nthe great Commonwealth of Kentucky has an abundance of human resources.\nIt has been my privilege to work with her during my tenure in Congress\nto ensure that America's children will continue to benefit from the\nfinest educational programming available, and that they will enter\nformal schooling ``Ready to Learn''. She has demonstrated the power of\ntelevision to educate, inform and inspire.\n  Mr. Speaker, the education of our children is one of our greatest\nresponsibilities. Virginia Gaines Fox must be commended for her\ninnovation, her vision, and her dedication to education. Her leadership\nwill be sorely missed, but her retirement is richly deserved, and we\nwish her the very best that life has to offer.\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-PgE2137-4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.3923809854313731, "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"}