PRINTER'S NO. 3092
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
657
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY GLEIM, SONNEY, ROTHMAN, LONGIETTI, MURT, PICKETT,
DONATUCCI, BURNS, READSHAW, SCHLEGEL CULVER, MILLARD,
JOZWIAK, BROOKS, BIZZARRO, FREEMAN, HEFFLEY, KORTZ, SCHMITT,
JONES, YOUNGBLOOD, RYAN AND BERNSTINE, JANUARY 10, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 10, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of February 8 through 15, 2020, as "Court
Reporting and Captioning Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, For millennia, individuals have wanted the spoken
word translated into text to record history and, to accomplish
this task, have relied on scribes; and
WHEREAS, The profession of scribe was born with the rise of
civilization; and
WHEREAS, In Ancient Egypt, scribes were considered to be the
literate elite, recording laws and other important documents
and, since that time, have served as impartial witnesses to
history; and
WHEREAS, Scribes were present with our nation's founding
fathers as the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights
were drafted; and
WHEREAS, President Lincoln entrusted scribes to record the
Emancipation Proclamation; and
WHEREAS, Since the advent of shorthand machines, these
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