IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1002 
Expressing support for designation of April 2008 as ‘‘Public Radio 
Recognition Month’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 26, 2008 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CHAN-
DLER, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. COHEN, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Mr. DICKS, Mr. DOYLE, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. 
HOLDEN, Mr. HONDA, Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KIL-
DEE, Mr. LAHOOD, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. 
MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. NORTON, Mr. OBER-
STAR, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. REYES, Mr. ROSS, Mr. SPRATT, Mrs. TAUSCHER, 
Mr. WALDEN of Oregon, and Mr. WU) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for designation of April 2008 as ‘‘Public 
Radio Recognition Month’’. 
Whereas the mission of public radio is to create a more in-
formed public that is challenged and invigorated by a 
deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, 
and cultures; 
Whereas the programming content created and distributed by 
public radio are based upon three core values, qualities 
of mind, qualities of heart, and qualities of craft, that ex-
emplify the inherent meaning of localism by placing value 
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and financial investment in local and regional assets to 
gather and distribute a collection of programming that 
informs and improves community; 
Whereas public radio is known for distinctive, award-winning 
programming that includes ‘‘Morning Edition’’, ‘‘All 
Things Considered’’, ‘‘A Prairie Home Companion’’, 
‘‘Marketplace’’, ‘‘Speaking of Faith’’, and ‘‘This Amer-
ican Life’’; 
Whereas America’s more than 800 public radio stations serve 
every State and every congressional district with news, 
information, cultural, and music programming that is 
unique to free radio; 
Whereas some 33,000,000 Americans listen each week to 
public radio programming; 
Whereas the public radio audience has doubled in the past 15 
years and increased by some 70 percent in the past dec-
ade; 
Whereas public radio stations are licensed by community 
foundations, colleges, universities, school boards, librar-
ies, and other local nonprofit entities; 
Whereas public radio stations are locally licensed, locally 
staffed, locally programmed, and have tailored their pro-
gramming to meet the needs of local audiences; 
Whereas public radio stations receive on average more than 
85 percent of their annual funding from local sources; 
Whereas public radio’s public service finds expression through 
a deep, rich music discovery, education, and enrichment 
experience for both its audience and the performers, sing-
er-songwriters, musicians, lyricists, and composers, which 
places the highest emphasis on a value partnership with 
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performers to bring all facets of music into the lives of 
its audience in a way that is found nowhere else; 
Whereas public radio has preserved and enhanced the arche-
typal musical formats of American music history like 
jazz, classical, folk, bluegrass, the blues, and Celtic and 
regards these formats as the priceless family treasures of 
public radio’s musical foundations; 
Whereas public radio is responding to its commitment to 
community-based and fact-based journalism with several 
initiatives, including the Local News Initiative, a national 
effort to increase public radio’s service to communities 
through investments in station capacity to provide in-
depth, serious, and balanced news, and Public Insight 
Journalism, a pioneering concept that utilizes citizens to 
help cover the news by sharing their observations, knowl-
edge, and expertise; 
Whereas public radio has embraced digital broadcasting tech-
nology because of its inherently inclusive nature and po-
tential to expand public service programming; 
Whereas public radio exists to serve the public interest; and 
Whereas the month of April 2008 would be an appropriate 
date for the designation of a ‘‘Public Radio Recognition 
Month’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the United States House of Rep-
resentatives— 
(1) expresses support for designation of a 
‘‘Public Radio Recognition Month’’; and 
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(2) encourages the celebration of America’s 
public radio stations for their contributions to our 
Nation’s communities and enduring civic spirit. 
Æ 
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