[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 130 (Friday, September 24, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1745]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           HONORING SUE PALKA

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                         HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 24, 2010

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Speaker, on Monday, September 27, 2010, one of 
my constituents will be celebrating 25 years of outstanding service to 
the Washington, DC metropolitan region.
  WTTG Fox 5 News weather forecaster Sue Palka has been bringing 
Washingtonians their weather reports for decades. For those of you who 
have seen her, you know her for her irrepressible enthusiasm and good 
humor. I am proud that Sue, a resident of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is a 
constituent of mine.
  Sue is a six-time Emmy award winner for outstanding weather 
forecasting and has been with Fox 5 since 1985. In 1997, she was named 
Broadcaster of the Year by the National Weather Association. She was 
featured on the cover of Washingtonian Magazine in March 2004, and on 
the cover of the Washington Post TV Week in July 1997 with an extensive 
article profiling her career. Sue received the Distinguished Alumnae 
Award from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2005.
  Sue has an undying passion for weather forecasting. From taking on 
Hurricane Bertha when it made landfall, to flying into the eye of 
category 4 Hurricane Edouard with the famed Hurricane Hunters, to 
tornado chasing in Texas and Oklahoma, Sue loves to be in the middle of 
the action and to share its excitement with her viewers.
  I am delighted to congratulate Sue Palka, her husband Joe and 
daughters Elizabeth and Nora, for her 25 years of dedicated service to 
our community and to all visitors to the Nation's Capital.

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