The bill from the 4th graders at Lincoln Akerman School has once again been put on hold.

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Two weeks after saying he would "right a serious wrong" and forward an amendment to a bill to make the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor, State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Woodburn didn't follow through.

It was on March 30th that Woodburn announced that he was going to put forth the amendment on a bill that would make the bobcat New Hampshire's state wildcat. The committee voted to support the bill, without any amendments.

The bill proposed by the 4th graders from Hampton Falls last month was killed on the House floor. Members ridiculed the bill, one member saying the hawk should be a mascot for Planned Parenthood because it rips it's prey apart 'limb by limb'.

In an article published at Seacoast online, Jeff Woodburn said he didn't offer the amendment because he wants to support another one that would establish a committee that would look into a 'reinvention of the process of naming state symbols'.

One thing is for sure, The Lincoln Akerman 4th graders are certainly getting a lesson in government. Promises are made and then promises are broken, government wheels turn very slowly, and when in doubt, form a committee.

See what a local red-tailed hawk has to say about all of this controversy.

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