[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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              GLENN BRIERE: 25 YEARS OF QUALITY REPORTING

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                          HON. RICHARD E. NEAL

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 28, 1994

  Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I take this opportunity to 
pay tribute to a reporter from my home city of Springfield, MA. Glenn 
Briere has been covering politics at the local and State level for the 
past 25 years and is about to leave for a new career. Briere will soon 
become the head of public communications for Massachusetts auditor Joe 
DeNucci. Auditor DeNucci is sure to benefit from the years of fine work 
Glenn has put in as a general assignment reporter in Springfield and as 
the statehouse reporter for the Springfield Union-News.
  It is a drive of a couple of hours from western Massachusetts to the 
statehouse in Boston, but politically it often seems like a world away. 
Those of us who closely follow the Governor and our local 
Representatives and Senators come to rely on solid stories from our 
western Massachusetts reporters. In that sense, Glenn Briere has 
provided a valuable service for the past 11 years as he reported on 
events under the Golden Dome on Beacon Hill. With hundreds of important 
matters before our Massachusetts House and Senate each week, Glenn has 
always known how to pick out the issues of true importance to people in 
Springfield, Chicopee, and the towns of the Pioneer Valley. He has also 
given us an inside view of how decisions are made in Boston and alerted 
us to upcoming measures that may affect our lives. His weekend wrap-up 
of the past week's events on Beacon Hill has long been a must read for 
me.
  In addition to his newspaper work, Glenn has also been a fixture on 
our local political television show, ``The State We're In,'' on our PBS 
outlet, WGBY. Glenn Briere is also a past president of the Statehouse 
Press Association. He will be greatly missed in our daily paper and 
each week on television, but I hope to be able to work with Glenn in 
his new role in State government. He may find that it is easier to 
observe the workings of government than to try and make government 
work, but if his past work is any indication, Glenn will excel in 
auditor DeNucci's office.
  Mr. Speaker, I wish Glenn Briere the best of luck in the years ahead 
and join with many people in western Massachusetts in thanking him for 
his fine work as a political reporter.

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