[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 167 (Thursday, December 16, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2154]
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  HONORING VETERAN NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST TYLER WHITLEY FOR 50 YEARS OF 
         EXCEPTIONAL WORK AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA-AREA NEWSPAPERS

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                     HON. ROBERT C. ``BOBBY'' SCOTT

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 16, 2010

  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor veteran 
Richmond Times-Dispatch journalist Tyler Whitley. Mr. Whitley has been 
a newspaper reporter in Richmond, Virginia, for the last 50 years. He 
has spent 40 of those years covering the Virginia General Assembly, 
including the 15 years that I served there.
  Mr. Whitley, a Virginia native, is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney 
College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. He started his career in 1960 as 
an obituary writer at the Richmond News Leader. He later became 
business editor at the News Leader. In 1992, he joined the Times-
Dispatch when the News Leader and the Times-Dispatch merged into a 
single morning newspaper. He has covered nine governors, fourteen 
national political conventions, and four redistrictings. He has also 
traveled to ten countries on assignment.
  Mr. Whitley is well-respected by journalists and politicians in 
Virginia. He is affectionately referred to as the dean of the Virginia 
capitol press corps. Last week, several journalists and editors, 
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and former Virginia Governors James 
Gilmore, L. Douglas Wilder, Gerald Baliles and Linwood Hilton gathered 
to honor Mr. Whitley. The presence of these Governors at Mr. Whitley's 
50th anniversary celebration is a testament to the admirable 
professional legacy he has built in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
  ``If it's true that reporters write the first draft of history, then 
Tyler has written a lot of history,'' former Governor Baliles told the 
Washington Post.
  Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to honor Tyler Whitley for 50 years 
of exceptional journalism.

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