Angie Craig: “I join with all of my fellow Senators today to express our feeling and mourn the death of our colleague, Senator Paul…”

“I join with all of my fellow Senators today to express our feeling and mourn the death of our colleague, Senator Paul Coverdell. I always find these kinds of circumstances difficult to speak to, to find the appropriate words to reflect my emotions or to in some way express my love for a man such as Paul Coverdell and the way he worked for all of us and for his country. My experience with Paul was largely a part of our time in the Senate, a leadership time. He was secretary of what we call our Republican conference, or all Members on the Republican side. It was through that relationship that I grew to know Paul and to appreciate the tremendous talents that he had. We all know he was an activist on the floor on many occasions, in pursuit of what the leadership team and ultimately the Republican conference decided was a direction we ought to head in or an issue we ought to debate. He did it with phenomenal energy and talent.”