{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2008-12-11-pt1-PgS10901-4", "2008-12-11", 110, 2, null, null, "TRIBUTE TO SENATORS", "SENATE", "SENATE", "TRIBUTETO", "S10901", "S10902", "[{\"name\": \"Bill Nelson\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Sheldon Whitehouse\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "154 Cong. Rec. S10901", "Congressional Record, Volume 154 Issue 186 (Thursday, December 11, 2008)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 186 (Thursday, December 11, 2008)]\n[Senate]\n[Pages S10901-S10902]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                          TRIBUTE TO SENATORS\n\n                              John Warner\n\n  Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam President, I wish to take this\nopportunity to pay tribute to a true patriot and a dear friend, Senator\nJohn Warner of Virginia.\n  It has been an extraordinary experience for me to serve with Senator\nWarner on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee.\n  In the capacity of his service on the Armed Services Committee, which\nhas been upwards of three decades, serving as its chairman, the insight\nand guidance he has provided has been invaluable. Over and over, you\nwill hear the\n\n[[Page S10902]]\n\nmembers of that committee speak as I, as if with one voice, how we\nappreciate his public service. He has great knowledge. He has great\nwisdom. It is tempered with a wonderful personality that is most\nstudious and deliberative. Few have done as much to champion the cause\nof our men and women in the Armed Forces of the United States as John\nWarner.\n  This Senator admires him for his sense of fairness, for his mutual\nrespect of all the Members of the Senate. We know there has to be\ncivility in the Senate for it to function. There has to be mutual\nrespect. There has to be respect for the truth. There has to be respect\nfor the dignity of individuals and those Senators' families. All of\nthat is certainly apropos of the senior Senator from Virginia. Over and\nover, I have been in situations with him that could have been\nadversarial. Yet his calm judgment and reason have brought people\ntogether. Of course, that is the admonition of the Good Book: ``Come\nlet us reason together.''\n  Over and over, as I have sought his counsel on matters of some of the\nNation's highest secrets, John Warner has provided the leadership and\nthe clarity, as we have made those decisions, sometimes making those\ndecisions together.\n  So it is with a great reluctance on my part that I see our colleague,\nSenator Warner, retire after a very distinguished and long career. It\nhas been a privilege to serve with John. I will miss him as a\ncolleague. I will miss his leadership, his fairness, and his great\ncapacity as a gentleman of the Senate.\n  Madam President, I yield the floor and suggest the absence of a\nquorum.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.\n  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.\n  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the\norder for the quorum call be rescinded.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.\n  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for\nup to 15 minutes as in morning business.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.\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-2008-12-11-pt1-PgS10901-4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.221291022375226, "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"}