{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://davidscott.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397978", "Congressman David Scott Pays Tribute to Channel 2 WSB-TVs Tim McVay", "2017-12-06", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "David Scott", "S001157", "davidscott.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Today Congressman David Scott (GA-13) took the House Floor to pay tribute to Channel 2 WSB-TV\u2019s Tim McVay, Vice President and General Manager, on his retirement after 39 years in broadcasting. \u00a0Click here to watch video of Congressman Scott\u2019s remarks. \r\n\u201cThank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise this morning to pay honor to an extraordinary, great American. Mr. Tim McVay, Vice President and General Manager of WSB Television is retiring after thirty-nine years as a top executive with Cox Media Group Television Stations across this nation, from Dayton, Ohio, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to San Francisco, California, and to Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 earning Tim McVay the highest award in Television, including the Edmund R. Murrow Awards, the Peabody Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Alfred E. DuPont awards, and the induction into the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. \r\n\u201cTim McVay is a great American, deeply rooted in his love of country and his love of family, including his loving wife Cindy and his sons, Sean and Ryan. \u00a0His son Sean, Mr. Speaker, is head coach of the Los Angeles Rams and the youngest head coach in the history of the NFL. And his father, the legendary John McVay, was the Head of Football Operations for the San Francisco 49ers, and, Members of Congress, winning five Super Bowls. What a great All-American story. \r\n\u201cBut there\u2019s more, Mr. Speaker and Members of the Congress that I must tell you about Tim McVay. Tim McVay\u2019s life has been like that shining light on the hill: reaching out, helping other people, loving his neighbor as himself, that most sacred of Commandments. \r\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s helping the hundreds of television journalists, young people in their careers who are now leading in the television industry or helping me and hundreds of our employers in Georgia with our annual jobs fair, where we have gotten over 12,000 jobs for Georgians. \r\n\u201cOr whether it\u2019s our health fair, which we have every year and where we give breast cancer exams and prostate exams to those individuals who, for reasons of income, don\u2019t have insurance, saving lives. \r\n\u201cAnd our veterans, the work that Tim McVay has helped us with our veterans. Ladies and gentlemen, of Congress, let me tell you it was Tim McVay, under his leadership at WSB television in Atlanta, Georgia and his WSB reporter, Aaron Diamant, who exposed to this nation the tragically high suicide rates of our veterans. And then got behind myself and my Republican fellow member of Congress, Larry Bouchard of Indiana, and helped us pass legislation to get more psychiatrists into the V.A. \r\n\u201cGod bless Tim McVay and God bless the United States of America, land of the free and home of the brave. Thank you.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://davidscott.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397978"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0472019203007221, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}