[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 491 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 491

 Recognizing the achievements of the National Captioning Institute in 
providing closed captioning services to Americans who are deaf or hard-
                              of-hearing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2004

Mr. Blumenauer (for himself, Mr. Tom Davis of Virginia, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
   Payne, Mr. Ryun of Kansas, and Mr. Walsh) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the achievements of the National Captioning Institute in 
providing closed captioning services to Americans who are deaf or hard-
                              of-hearing.

Whereas in 1979, the National Captioning Institute was founded as a nonprofit 
        corporation with the mission of ensuring that deaf and hard-of-hearing 
        people have access to television through the technology of closed 
        captioning;
Whereas during the past 25 years, the National Captioning Institute has 
        revolutionized the way in which Americans who are deaf or hard-of-
        hearing participate in the world;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute pioneered the first closed captioning 
        television service in the world;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute developed and implemented real-time 
        captioning and commissioned the captioning microchip now built into most 
        new television sets sold in the United States;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has encouraged American broadcasters 
        and consumers to implement closed captioning services;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has produced many of the finest real-
        time stenocaptioners across the United States;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has set the highest standards of 
        quality and performance in the closed captioning industry and has 
        commissioned and published the first formal assessment of the quality, 
        availability, and use of captioning services in order to improve 
        performance throughout the industry;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has established the only consumer help 
        desk in the United States dedicated to communications access issues and 
        provides this service at no charge to the people of the United States;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has enabled Americans of all ages to 
        improve their language-learning and literacy skills through closed 
        captioning television;
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has provided scholarships to American 
        students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, enabling them to pursue higher 
        education; and
Whereas the National Captioning Institute has continued development of the next 
        wave of communications access technologies, including Internet 
        captioning and a groundbreaking multi-lingual speech-recognition 
        captioning system: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress recognizes the achievements of the National Captioning 
Institute in providing closed captioning services to Americans who are 
deaf or hard-of-hearing.
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