NEW HAMPSHIRE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

RESOLUTION

HR 26

honoring

New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television

WHEREAS, the stated missions of New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television are respectively to help create a more informed public, one challenged and enriched by a deeper understanding and appreciation of state, national and worldwide events, ideas and culture, and to serve the public interest through education, culture and citizenship, and

WHEREAS, New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television each did recognize the great significance and historic precedent of House Resolution 50 when it was adopted on April 13, 2000, authorizing and directing the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether cause did exist for the impeachment of any State Supreme Court Justices, and

WHEREAS, New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television each did decide to perform a valuable public service and each did interrupt regular broadcast schedules to provide citizens of the state with live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings, and

WHEREAS, New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television did provide the people of New Hampshire with the opportunity to listen to, to view and to learn all of the details while the House Judiciary Committee did deal with this most critical issue, and

WHEREAS, New Hampshire Public Radio's and New Hampshire Public Television's exemplary staffs of journalists, producers, directors and engineers did broadcast and telecast more than two hundred and fifty hours of live, day-and-night coverage of the proceedings, now therefore be it

RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives in Regular Session convened, that New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television each receive the highest of plaudits and accolades for the valuable public service each did provide to the citizens of New Hampshire with live coverage of the impeachment hearings, and be it further

RESOLVED, that the House of Representatives acknowledge and commend New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television for their outstanding achievements, and that suitable copies of this Resolution be prepared for presentation to New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television.

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DONNA SYTEK

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

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