[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 135 (Friday, September 19, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      RECOGNITION OF ACCESS TUCSON IN HONOR OF 30 YEARS OF SERVICE

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                            HON. RON BARBER

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 18, 2014

  Mr. BARBER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition and celebration 
of Access Tucson, an independent, nonprofit, membership-based 
organization that is celebrating 30 years of serving the people of 
Tucson, Arizona. I also want to commend Executive Director Lisa Horner 
for her many years of service to this community.
  Access Tucson provides the training and facilities for Tucsonans to 
communicate with their community through electronic media. Access 
Tucson producers provide the ideas, information and diversity to create 
the most visible part of Access Tucson's operations: the programming.
  Public access television is the only forum in which individual 
citizens have the opportunity to express their opinions and 
perspectives to the community through cable television. Access Tucson 
provides an important venue for exercising one of our First Amendment 
rights: the right to free speech. Public access television makes the 
use of electronic media possible for many groups that are under-
represented or not heard or seen in conventional broadcast television.
  Access Tucson provides programming with an important social benefit--
such as programs that assist refugees learn how various Tucson services 
operate and how they can become fully integrated into our community. 
Access Tucson also provides media training and media literacy to many 
individuals, including people living with a disability.
  I congratulate Access Tucson on its 30th anniversary and look forward 
to enjoying its service to our community for at least another 30 years.

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