A resolution congratulating "A Prairie Home Companion" on its 40 years of engaging, humorous, and quality radio programming.

Bill: 113-sres-492
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2014-06-26
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies

Congressional tributes

Minnesota

Performing arts
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4190; text as passed Senate: CR S4166)

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-06-26
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Congratulates&nbsp;the cast and crew of <i>A Prairie Home Companion</i> for 40 years of radio programming&nbsp;and recognizes&nbsp;Minnesota Public Radio&nbsp;and American Public Media for bringing&nbsp;such program into millions of homes.</p> </p>

action_date: 2014-06-26
action_desc: Passed Senate without amendment
text: <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Congratulates&nbsp;the cast and crew of <i>A Prairie Home Companion</i> for 40 years of radio programming&nbsp;and recognizes&nbsp;Minnesota Public Radio&nbsp;and American Public Media for bringing&nbsp;such program into millions of homes.</p>

tv_txt: III 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 492 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 26, 2014 Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Franken ) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Congratulating A Prairie Home Companion on its 40 years of engaging, humorous, and quality radio programming.

Whereas, for 40 years, A Prairie Home Companion has brought listeners from around the country to the fantastic town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota; Whereas, in 2014, A Prairie Home Companion is a 2 hour radio variety program performed live that airs on Saturday afternoons ; Whereas over 600 radio stations carry A Prairie Home Companion to 4,000,000 listeners each week; Whereas A Prairie Home Companion was created by and is hosted by a Grammy Award winner who received the award in 1998 for Lake Wobegon Days ; Whereas 12 people were in the audience for the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Whereas, in 2014, A Prairie Home Companion is broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a historic building that is over 100 years old and was named after United States citizen and author F. Scott Fitzgerald; Whereas A Prairie Home Companion has won a Peabody Award; Whereas A Prairie Home Companion has broadcast from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland, and nearly every State in the United States; Whereas A Prairie Home Companion inspired a movie by the same name, which itself won 4 international awards; and Whereas in Lake Wobegon all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) congratulates— (A) the cast and crew of A Prairie Home Companion for 40 years of engaging, humorous, and quality radio programming; and (B) Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media for bringing A Prairie Home Companion into the homes of millions for 40 years; and (2) directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion .