{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2004-12-20-pt1-PgS12093", "2004-12-20", 108, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO SENATOR ERNEST ``FRITZ'' HOLLINGS", "SENATE", "SENATE", "TRIBUTETO", "S12093", "S12093", "[{\"name\": \"Paul S. Sarbanes\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "150 Cong. Rec. S12093", "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 S12093]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n              TRIBUTE TO SENATOR ERNEST ``FRITZ'' HOLLINGS\n\n  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, with the retirement of Senator Fritz\nHollings, the Senate is losing its fourth most senior member, an\nextraordinary and important repository of institutional history. The\npeople of South Carolina are losing an outspoken and respected\nspokesperson for their needs and concerns. All of us who have served\nwith him are losing an effective colleague, a wise counselor, and a\ngood friend.\n  Friz Hollings has spent well over half a century in public service,\nbeginning with nearly 3 years of military service during World War II\nin the North African and European theaters. He returned to civilian\nlife, received his law degree at the University of South Carolina, and\nin 1948 was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives,\nwhere he served three terms, two of them as the House speaker pro\ntempore. In 1954 he was elected lieutenant governor, and 4 years later\nhe was elected Governor. He was then 36 years old--the youngest\ngovernor of South Carolina in the 20th century.\n  Over many years and on many issues, Fritz Hollings has shown himself\nto be a public servant with solid common sense. He is also a visionary.\nVery early he foresaw the need for technical education, and as Governor\nnearly 50 years ago, he established South Carolina's system of\ntechnical colleges. In the late 1950s, when other Governors in the\nSouth were setting out plans to preserve legal segregation\nnotwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of\nEducation, the young Governor of South Carolina rallied the people of\nSouth Carolina to comply with the law. ``He managed the peaceful\nintegration of Clemson University back when other Southern Governors\nwere fighting to keep their universities all-white,'' Mike Wallace has\nobserved.\n  The people of South Carolina, the Members of this body, and people in\nevery corner and region of the United States have seen Fritz Hollings'\nforceful combination of common sense and vision at work on issues like\nhunger, the environment, jobs, and fiscal policy. Soon after coming to\nthe Senate, he helped focus the Nation's attention on hunger; WIC, the\nWomen, Infants and Children's Special Supplemental Food Program, was\nmodeled on a pilot program in South Carolina. For more than three\ndecades he has played a major part in the vital movement first to\nestablish, then to maintain and strengthen the legislative framework\nfor protection of the natural environment. It was Fritz Hollings who\nwrote this Nation's first land-use law to protect coastal wetlands.\nAdmiral James Watkins, USN (Ret.), who chairs the U.S. Commission on\nOcean Policy, recently recognized his efforts saying: ``Senator\nHollings' tireless work on behalf of this Nation's ocean and coasts\nwill help preserve and protect our precious marine and coastal\nresources for generations to come. . . . (including) his work to\nestablish the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\nover 30 years ago. . . .''\n  It was his concern for jobs in South Carolina that led him to\nestablish the State's technical colleges while Governor, and in recent\nyears has made him a forceful critic of policies that facilitate\noutsourcing. ``In South Carolina,'' according to the Chief Justice of\nthe State Supreme Court, Jean Toal, ``we have heard him talk about the\ndebt and outsourcing jobs for 30 years, and all of that is now what the\nAmerican public is so focused on. He was always ahead of his time.''\n  Fritz Hollings believes in the good that government can accomplish.\nIn a recent interview on ``Sixty Minutes,'' he said: ``We believe in\nfeeding the hungry, and housing the homeless, and educating the\nuninformed and everything else like that . . . in `We the people' in\norder to form a more perfect Union.'' In his many years of service to\nthe people of South Carolina and of this Nation, Fritz Hollings has\nfaithfully honored that principle. His common sense, his vision, and\nhis great humor will be missed, but surely not 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-PgS12093"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.7022370379418135, "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"}