Jay Rockefeller: “in the Senate, the core job, obviously, of any Senator is to do all we can every day to help our constituents. It has…”

“in the Senate, the core job, obviously, of any Senator is to do all we can every day to help our constituents. It has been such an honor for this Senator to stand with our newest Senator from West Virginia, Carte Goodwin, and work with him to do exactly that. Before joining this body, Senator Goodwin made serving West Virginia his focus in everything he did--as an attorney; general counsel to our Governor; chairman of the School Building Authority, which is a very complex matter--and all the while exuding enormous character, great character, dignity, and always keeping West Virginia families first and foremost in his mind. It has been interesting to watch him on this floor in this relatively short period of time in which he has been a Senator and still is--the way people come up to him, see him as a breath of fresh air, respond to his intelligence, his integrity, his modesty, and his very smart brain. Senator Goodwin comes from a family deeply committed to public service that has taught him to work very hard, to give back, and be proud of where he came from. I respect him a very great deal. More importantly, he has a deeply ingrained sense of what matters to West Virginia. He does not come from one of our big urban counties. He comes from a very small rural county, Jackson County. He knows what working families need. He knows what people who represent them in Washington need to bear in mind.”