Mary Landrieu: “I wish to say a few words about our extraordinary and great colleague who has left the Senate and left this world, but…”

“I wish to say a few words about our extraordinary and great colleague who has left the Senate and left this world, but his spirit will be here for many years to come and his presence will be felt here for decades, if literally not centuries, and the extraordinary contribution that Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia has made to the Congress, to the Senate, to our country, and to the world. He read so much. He was so curious about so many aspects of life, not just politics, not just government, but industry, art, and music that literally he was one of the most inspirational human beings I have ever had the pleasure to know or ever read about in that sense. Senator Reed said he lifted himself from literally an orphan status in one of the poorest communities in the world, West Virginia.”