{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.coons.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-senator-coons-to-lead-bipartisan-tributes-to-vice-president-biden", "ICYMI: Senator Coons to lead bipartisan tributes to Vice President Biden", "2016-11-29", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Christopher Coons", "C001088", "www.coons.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "11.29.16\n\t\t\t ICYMI: Senator Coons to lead bipartisan tributes to Vice President Biden \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t Bipartisan tribute to Vice President Joe Biden will be held on December 7\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t WASHINGTON \u2013 In case you missed it, below is an article from Politico spotlighting a bipartisan tribute to honor Vice President Joe Biden led by U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.). The hour-long tribute is scheduled for the afternoon of December 7, 2016. Other Senators participating include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).\u00a0\r\nPolitico: Senate to offer bipartisan tributes to BidenBy Seung Min Kim\r\nVice President Joe Biden has his share of bipartisan admirers in the Senate, where he served for 36 years before heading to the White House as President Barack Obama\u2019s second-in-command.\u00a0\r\nAnd a group of Democrats and Republicans will honor Biden\u2019s legacy both in the administration and on Capitol Hill next month with a series of Senate floor tributes to the outgoing vice president \u2014 with Biden in attendance.\u00a0\r\nThe tribute is the brainchild of Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who now holds the Senate seat that Biden occupied for more than three decades. Coons first approached Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) with the idea in August, and McConnell \u2014 who's worked closely with Biden in the past, including negotiating a way for Congress to extricate itself from the fiscal cliff crisis in late 2012 \u2014 was quickly on board, Coons said.\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to have a public life without Joe Biden,\u201d Coons said in an interview Monday. \u201cI am very hopeful that he will remain a very strong, very effective voice in Washington, internationally and in Delaware. I view it as a celebration of his next chapter in public service.\u201d\r\nThe hour-long tribute is scheduled for Dec. 7 in the afternoon. Coons will kick it off, and other top senators will follow with their own accolades for Biden \u2014 including McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).\r\n\u201cThe leader agreed with it and is helping to make it happen,\u201d McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said.\r\nBiden spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak confirmed that the vice president indeed plans to attend the tribute.\u00a0\r\nThough his name has been batted around for various political jobs, including the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Biden has said he plans to focus on initiatives to battle cancer once he leaves office. His son, Beau Biden, died from brain cancer last year.\r\n\u201cHe has made an enormous difference already in fighting for cures for cancer, in supporting state and local law enforcement and in working in a bipartisan way to push some very important issues internationally and domestically,\u201d Coons said. \u201cBut frankly, he also has a deserved reputation for being an incredibly loyal friend and for being a very straight-talking, common-sense senator.\u201d\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t Press Contact \n\t\t\t\tSean Coit at 202-224-5042 or Sean_Coit@coons.senate.gov\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.coons.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-senator-coons-to-lead-bipartisan-tributes-to-vice-president-biden"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8686699438840151, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}