[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S3807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                         TRIBUTE TO NORMA LOVE

 Ms. AYOTTE. Mr. President, I rise today to honor Norma Love--a 
venerable Associated Press reporter who is retiring at the end of the 
month after a long career covering government and politics in the 
Granite State.
  Norma's name is well-known to anyone in New Hampshire who has picked 
up a newspaper in the past three decades. She started in the AP's 
Concord bureau 31 years ago, and she has covered the statehouse for 29 
of those years--spanning the administrations of seven Governors.
  It was at the statehouse where I first had the privilege of meeting 
Norma. We crossed paths on more times than I can count during my years 
in the attorney general's office. Whenever Norma called, I always knew 
that I would be talking to a consummate professional who holds herself 
to the highest standards of journalism.
  Norma understands that journalists have a responsibility to ask tough 
questions. She has always taken a firm--but fair--approach to her 
reporting, and that is why she is so deeply respected by public 
officials on both sides of the aisle.
  Norma could have been a reporter anywhere in the country, but she 
chose New Hampshire. During her decades of diligent reporting, she has 
been a witness to history--chronicling the people and places of her 
adopted State. While much has changed in the Granite State, and in 
newsrooms, since Norma arrived at the AP, her commitment to excellence 
in journalism has never wavered.
  The people of New Hampshire are so fortunate that Norma Love has been 
asking hard questions on their behalf for the past 31 years. Norma 
brings tremendous credit to the profession that she loves, and she will 
leave behind big shoes to fill in the statehouse press room.
  I am pleased to join with Norma's colleagues and many friends in 
wishing her the very best as she makes this transition and looks to new 
horizons. As we thank her for her many years of dedicated reporting, we 
send her every good wish for a long, full, and happy 
retirement.

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