[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7908]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REMEMBERING BEAU BIDEN

  Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I wish to speak about the FISA bill, but 
before I do, I want to express what is in every one of our hearts--our 
grieving with the Joe Biden family. That family has had more than its 
share of tragedy, but what it has produced is, in the case of Beau 
Biden, an extraordinary public servant who served his country not only 
by elected office but by serving in uniform as well.
  Most of us in this Chamber know the Biden family. The dad and the now 
mom, Joe and Jill, are extraordinary human beings who have contributed 
so much. It is not necessarily easy to be in public service as long as 
the Vice President has been and still raise a family that is so 
extraordinarily accomplished and contributes so much. Then to have that 
eldest son taken from him is like a dagger into our hearts.
  So we grieve with the family. We grieve for them and with the Nation. 
I just wish to put that on the record.

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