[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 138 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S12040]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 TRIBUTE TO LORI MOONEY, RETIRING CLERK OF ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

 Mr. BRADLEY. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to the 
public career of a very special woman. The Honorable Lori Mooney will 
this month retire from public service having completed 19 years of 
faithful and distinguished service as the first publicly elected clerk 
of Atlantic County.
  Having been elected in 1977 as the first woman to serve in the 
position of county clerk, Lori Mooney made one promise at that time to 
the people of the county--to bring the operations of the office of the 
clerk into the 20th Century. To that end, she can take great pride in 
her achievements. She has managed, with the help of a highly 
professional, service-oriented staff, to raise the professional 
standards of the office from hand-written entries to the complete 
computerization of all records. She has consistently worked to meet the 
growing and changing needs of her county by recognizing the importance 
of easy, accessible service to the general public. From being the first 
to provide a satellite office in Atlantic City to her forward-looking 
efforts today in establishing a World Wide Web site and a ``County 
Connection'' at the Hamilton Mall, Lori has instinctively understood 
the dynamic of citizen contact and public outreach. She has truly 
incorporated and made real her own motto, ``Always At Your Service.''
  Mr. President, as important as her work as county clerk has been, so 
too has Lori distinguished herself as a professional businesswoman 
having been the first woman appointed to the National Small Business 
Council for New Jersey by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. And 
finally, her love and her energy on behalf of Democratic candidates 
both local and national make her one of the very few Democrats in the 
State to have been a delegate to the party's national convention six 
times.
  Mr. President, I offer my warmest and most sincere congratulations to 
one of New Jersey's most beloved public servants whose public career 
should stand as an inspiration to all who respect honesty, unquestioned 
integrity and sound judgement in public office.

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