[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF KELLY O'DONNELL

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 27, 2011

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Kelly O'Donnell, 
a political reporter for NBC, who is being honored by the Press Club of 
Cleveland and inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, 
Class of 2011.
  Born and raised in Euclid and Cleveland's University Heights 
neighborhoods, Kelly attended Northwestern University. After graduating 
in 1987 from Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, 
Kelly returned to Cleveland and began working with the then CBS 
affiliate WJW-TV8 as a reporter and part-time anchor. She gained 
national recognition while covering the Southern Ohio Correctional 
riots in Lucasville, Ohio in 1993. She eventually won a regional Emmy 
based on her work of the riots.
  Less than a year after the Lucasville prison riots, Kelly was working 
as an NBC reporter. During the past seventeen years with NBC, Kelly has 
covered stories including the September 11th attacks, the passing of 
Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth's 50th Jubilee, the Shuttle Columbia 
disaster, the CIA Leak trial, the Columbine school shooting, John F. 
Kennedy Jr.'s plane crash, the Oklahoma City bombing and trials of 
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the O.J. Simpson saga and numerous 
Olympic Games. She has also been embedded with the Third Infantry 
Division in Fallujah, worked several presidential campaigns, and served 
as the NBC News' White House Correspondent from May 2005 to December 
2007. Today she can be found as a contributor to NBC Nightly News with 
Brian Williams, TODAY, and on MSNBC.
  In addition to her local Emmy, Kelly has been nominated for several 
national Emmy Awards. She was inducted into the Ohio Radio/Television 
Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2004 and received two first place awards 
from the Los Angeles Press Club. Kelly was twice part of NBC Nightly 
News' teams to be awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award, and in 2007 she 
was named Capitol Hill Correspondent.
  Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in congratulating NBC's 
Kelly O'Donnell as the Press Club of Cleveland inducts her into the 
Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, Class of 2011.

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