[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                             GROUNDHOG DAY

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                      HON. WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR.

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 2, 1994

  Mr. CLINGER. Mr. Speaker, much of the Nation has been suffering 
through a snowy and bitterly cold winter this year, so it is with a 
great sense of regret that I must rise today to share with my 
colleagues and the American people some very disheartening news.
  I rise to announce the prediction of the only furry forecaster who's 
prognostications come each year on February 2, from deep in a burrow at 
Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, PA, and who determines the fate of Old 
Man Winter.

                    1994 Groundhog Day Proclamation

       Here on Gobbler's Knob, February 2, 1994, Punxsutawney 
     Phil, Seer of Seers, responded to President Bud Dunkel's 
     summons at 7:28 a.m. and emerged alertly from his borrow. His 
     handler, Bill Deeley, placed him on top of the old maple 
     stump where he greeted a large throng of faithful followers, 
     as Phil chattered his prognostication in melodic 
     groundhogese; Bud quickly translated:

     I'm sorry to have to say,
     On this Groundhog Day,
     As I looked around,
     My shadow I found.
     When my shadow I see,
     Six more weeks of winter there will be.

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