Rob Portman: “first, I want to offer my congratulations to Bryn Stewart. That was a beautiful speech about the public service that he…”

“first, I want to offer my congratulations to Bryn Stewart. That was a beautiful speech about the public service that he has contributed to Wyoming and to the U.S. Senate. I thank my colleague from Wyoming for that. Kentucky Mr. President, I also want to say that over the weekend, I had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky. I live in Ohio so Kentucky is our neighboring State. I went down to help some of our neighbors get back on their feet after these devastating tornadoes. It was very emotional, partly, obviously, seeing people's lives just be devastated--houses ruined and family heirlooms lost and, unfortunately, some loss of life--as the tornado hit some of the residential areas in Western Kentucky, but also another emotion, which is gratitude for the people who came forward as volunteers to help, neighbor helping neighbor. As always happens when you have one of these natural disasters, the only silver lining is that people do come together in providing water and food and help getting people out of their homes through urban search and rescue teams, like Ohio Task Force One, that went down to Kentucky chain-sawing trees down so that people can get their cars out and try to repair some of the damage, get their lives back together. It was a terrible thing to see the devastation but also a wonderful thing to see people coming together to help one another to get through a tough time. Inflation Mr.…”