Cord Byrd: “last night, as the Senate was working into the late hours of the night and tensions were running high, our esteemed and…”

“last night, as the Senate was working into the late hours of the night and tensions were running high, our esteemed and beloved colleague, the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, took me by the arm and pulled me aside. There was something he wanted to show me. There was something that my esteemed and beloved colleague, Ted Stevens, wanted to say to me and wanted to show me. There was something he wanted to show me. It was an article that his daughter Lily Stevens had written about the U.S. Capitol, and he wanted to share it with me. I was touched by this. I know Lily. What a prodigious memory she has. Ah, what a rose in full bloom, what a lovely woman, Lily. She adores her father. He adores her. With everything that was going on in the Senate at the time, Senator Stevens was showing a father's pride in his daughter's accomplishment. I have literally watched Lily grow up. In her article, she points out that her father was already a Senator when she was born, and while she was a baby, her father would bring her to the Capitol--I have seen him many times--and carry her around in a basket. I remember that, just as I remember how she attended a number of my parties, and I attended a number of hers. I watched her grow into the remarkably--talented person she is today. She is a graduate of Stanford University and is currently a law student at the University of California at Berkeley.…”