On the recordDecember 7, 2016
Vice President Biden, earlier Hubert Humphrey's name was mentioned. You know the great love the people of Minnesota have for you. Vice President Humphrey was your mentor when you first got to the Senate, where you didn't even know if you were going to last a few months here, and he was there for you. You have extended that kindness to so many since then. Vice President Mondale, another Minnesotan, has great affection and love for you, and I will report back to him tonight that I was here with you today. When I first got elected to the Senate and made one of my first speeches about police funding to a completely empty Chamber--and I thought even my mom wasn't watching on C-SPAN--I walked out of this place and I got a phone call on my cell phone and it was Joe Biden, then a Senator, saying ``that was a really great speech.'' When you came to my State and one of my best friends suddenly lost her husband and you heard about it, you did not know who she was, you just heard the story, and in 2 weeks, on her first day back at work, she was driving home and she got a call from you. You talked to her for 20 minutes. When you were done and had given her all this wonderful advice, you said: We are not done; I want you to write down my phone number. She said: I am driving, Mr. Vice President; I can't do that. You said: Pull over. She wrote your phone number on her hand. You did that for her, Mr. Vice President, and you have done that for so many Americans.…
