{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2018-12-21-pt1-PgS8014-2", "2018-12-21", 115, 2, "164", null, "TRIBUTE TO BOB CORKER", "SENATE", "SENATE", "TRIBUTETO", "S8014", "S8014", "[{\"name\": \"Lisa Murkowski\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "164 Cong. Rec. S8014", "Congressional Record, Volume 164 Issue 202 (Friday, December 21, 2018)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 202 (Friday, December 21, 2018)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S8014]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                         TRIBUTE TO BOB CORKER\n\n  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, people often forget that each of us\ncomes to the Senate having done other significant things in life. Mr.\nCorker, the Senator from Tennessee, came here with a series of\nexperiences that greatly informed his work in the Senate, as well as\nthe work of his colleagues.\n  Mr. Corker was a success in business long before he entered politics,\nand he brought the lessons of that success into public service. He was\nthe deeply respected mayor of Chattanooga, TN. Mayors are perhaps the\nmost accountable elected officials in the Nation. They are a pragmatic\nresults-oriented stock. They live in the communities that they govern,\nso there is no place to hide, and they are forced to defend their\nrecords because the electorate knows what they have done and haven't.\nNo room for spin when you are a mayor.\n  Bob then brought the lessons of both of these careers to the U.S.\nSenate where he is known as a no-nonsense Senator who cuts through the\nbluster and focuses on the facts. On difficult problems, whether it was\nthe Iran nuclear agreement or working to save the American automobile\nindustry from near collapse, he brought discipline to our\ndeliberations.\n  I would like to say a few words about Bob's work as chairman of the\nSenate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senate Foreign Relations\nCommittee has historically held a preeminent role in the formulation\nand execution of U.S. foreign policy. Chairman Corker approached the\nposition with all of the grace and diplomacy appropriate to the office.\n  As the Senate's representative to the executive in foreign policy, he\nably represented our interests. He asked the questions that were on so\nmany of our minds and then he returned to the Senate to explain the\nadministration's thinking. He calmed many of our anxieties about the\nturbulent world in which we live. I like to think that is because Mr.\nCorker is a thoughtful, methodical, and calm thinker. His calm, steady\nleadership as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee these past\nseveral years will be greatly missed.\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-2018-12-21-pt1-PgS8014-2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.25153200840577483, "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"}