[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 50 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E226]
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                      RECOGNIZING PAT LAWSON MUSE

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                           HON. JAMIE RASKIN

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 17, 2023

  Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to congratulate Pat Lawson Muse on 
the occasion of her retirement after 40 remarkable years with NBC4-TV 
in Washington, D.C. Pat is an Emmy award-winning anchor who, together 
with Barbara Harrison, made broadcast history in the mid-1980s when 
they formed the first all-female local TV news anchor team in the 
Nation. The people of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. are now 
celebrating Pat's 40 years of excellence in broadcast journalism and 
service to the entire Washington region. As an anchor and general 
assignment reporter Pat has been a fixture on local television news, 
covering and reporting many of the most significant local and national 
stories of our time.
  For decades Pat has also been a familiar face on Sunday mornings 
hosting NBC4's community affairs programs, including Reporter's 
Notebook, Viewpoint and News4 Your Sunday, exploring many of the most 
important issues affecting people in our region, such as finances, 
health, education, public safety, faith and the environment. In 
addition, since 1984 Pat has been the leading force in NBC4's Food 4 
Families campaign which has fed tens of thousands of families, 
veterans, senior citizens, and others in need during the Thanksgiving 
period.
  Muse, whose broadcast career began in radio, has been inducted into 
the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle.
  We salute Pat not only for representing the local TV broadcasting 
profession with such excellence but for serving the many diverse 
communities in and around the state of Maryland with such great 
integrity, dignity, and uncompromising commitment to the common good of 
our people.

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