{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2004-12-20-pt1-PgS12092", "2004-12-20", 108, 2, null, null, "STANLEY KIMMITT--HONORED PUBLIC SERVANT AND LOYAL MONTANAN", "SENATE", "SENATE", "ALLOTHER", "S12092", "S12092", "[{\"name\": \"Max Baucus\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "150 Cong. Rec. S12092", "Congressional Record, Volume 150 Issue 140 (Monday, December 20, 2004)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 140 (Monday, December 20, 2004)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S12092]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n       STANLEY KIMMITT--HONORED PUBLIC SERVANT AND LOYAL MONTANAN\n\n  Mr. BAUCUS. Last week the Senate lost one of its most dedicated\npublic servants. Stan Kimmitt was deeply devoted to this great body and\nto his beloved country. He never forgot his humble beginnings and\nstrong Montana roots. Stan devoted his life to public service, always\ndefending democracy and decency whether it was on the dangerous\nbattlefields of War World II Europe or in the Halls of the U.S.\nCapitol, he always held true to his core values.\n  Born James Stanley Kimmitt on April 5, 1918, to wheat farmers in\nLewistown, MT, the 1920s drought forced the family to move to Great\nFalls where he was raised. After graduating from the University of\nMontana in Missoula in 1940, Stan immediately enlisted to serve his\ncountry in World War II. He fought as a tireless combat commander often\nvolunteering to lead the most dangerous missions. Stan was eventually\npart of the first U.S. division to occupy Berlin and he was honored for\nhis service by receiving the Silver and Bronze Stars. Stan would later\nheroically fight in the Korean war and his accomplishments were\nrecognized when he was inducted into the Field Artillery Officer\nCandidate School Hall of Fame. Stan's exemplary military career served\nas a great building block for what lay ahead for his career.\n  When he returned to the States, Stan sought other ways to serve his\ncountry. One presented itself when Mike Mansfield was elected to the\nU.S. Senate from Montana. As Senator Mansfield's chief of staff, Stan\nwas able to honor his roots and work on the issues important to his\nbeloved home State. When Senator Mansfield became majority leader, his\nright-hand man, Stan Kimmitt, became his secretary of the majority. For\n11 years, Mike and Stan worked quietly behind the scenes reaching\nacross party lines to provide support to move the country forward.\nKimmitt's long tenure represented a deep desire to work behind the\nscenes with both sides to provide support to move the country forward.\nIt is clear that both sides respected this commitment.\n  Stan's leadership and ability to move opposing forces forward made\nhim the perfect choice to become Secretary of the Senate, which he\nserved as from 1977 to 1981. In this role Stan became a very\ninfluential member of the Senate. He was never elected but many\nSenators used to affectionately refer to him as the 101st Senator or\nthe third Senator from Montana.\n  After Stan left the Secretary of the Senate position, he continued to\nbe involved in governmental affairs. He sat on the board for the\nDemocratic Leadership Council in 1985. The DLC was instrumental in\nintroducing then-Governor Bill Clinton in 1985 to a wider public. Stan\nrepresented the same ideals that Bill Clinton ran on in 1992. He wanted\nto find politicians that would represent a new energetic vitality in\nthe Democratic Party as Bill Clinton promised to do.\n  In spite of Stan's own notoriety, he continued to value his Montana\nroots. In 1983, he founded the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.\nThe Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation was a tribute to his former\nboss but to Montana as well. The foundation is part of Mansfield's\nlegacy and the causes he advocated during his time in the Senate. The\nfoundation sponsors exchanges, dialogues, and publications to create\nnetworks or partnerships between U.S. and Asian leaders. The foundation\nprovides excellent educational opportunities through fellowships to\nJapan for government employees.\n  Throughout the early 1990s Stan continued political activism that had\nbeen the trademark of his life. In 1991, Stan founded a political\nconsulting firm now known as Kimmitt, Senter, Coates and Weinfurter.\n  Stan brought to politics and his time in the Senate a strong sense of\ndeep moral principles and convictions. He believed that government\ncould and should be a force for good. Stan was very much the idealist\nand did not see bitter division in the Senate only as ideological\ndisagreements. To Stan, the Senate was one big family with all the\ncharacteristics of a family.\n  Stan lived his political life by three principles: First was to hold\ntrue to your conviction; second, be grateful for what is given to you\nand the opportunities you are given; and third, never give up unless\nyou can make it better. The other value Stan saw as important in his\npolitical life was ``to thine own self be true.''\n  Stan started his professional life as a public servant. It seems only\nfitting that the last day of his life he started the morning in the\nSenate cloakroom on the Democratic side talking with former colleagues\nand friends. That night he attended an event honoring retiring\nLouisiana Democratic Senator John Breaux. Stan died honoring a fellow\ncolleague who shared his beliefs and deeply felt convictions. He died\ndoing what he loved best, which was very appropriate, very fitting.\n  Stan, you will be deeply missed in the Senate, but you will not soon\nbe forgotten.\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-2004-12-20-pt1-PgS12092"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5201810747385025, "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"}