he's gone, but his legacy will not be forgotten, pride, gentlemanship, decency, honor and courage. welcoming the vice president of the united states, the honorable joe biden. [ applause ] . >> mr. speaker, thank you very much. thank you so very much.

he's gone, but his legacy will not be forgotten, pride, gentlemanship, decency, honor and courage. thank you. [ applause ] . >> ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming the vice president of the united states, the honorable joe biden. [ applause ] . >> mr. speaker, thank you very much. thank you so very much. the payne family, all of us, many of us have been through what you're through, going through. and we know there is not a darn thing any of us can say to fill that sense of that empty void you feel, that hollowness in your chest. but as the former speaker said, i hope you take some solace from knowing that everyone else knows what you knew, everyone else knows what you felt, everyone knows what your father, your grandfather, your brother, et cetera, what he was made of. i hope that gives you some solace. and so i hope that solace is something that will bring -- bring that healing quicker, brother, than it's already brought it. i am -- i actually -- i envy my colleagues who spoke. i envy them because they obviously got to work with donald every day, and they got to know him ev

pride, gentlemanship, decency, honor and courage. thank you.men, please welcome me in welcoming the vice president of the united states, joe biden. >> mr. speaker, thank you very much. to the payne family, all of us many have been through what you're going through and we know there's not a darn thing any of us can say. so that -- fill that sense of empty void, that hallow in your chest. as the former speaker said, i hope you take some solace from knowing that everyone else knows what you knew, everyone knows what you felt, everyone knows what your father, grandfather, your brother, etc., what he was made of. i hope that gives you some solace. and so i hope that solace is something that will bring that healing quicker. i actually -- i envy my colleagues who spoke. i envy them because they obviously got to work with donald every day and they got to know him even better than i did. -- a man who in my experience -- and i spent a lot of time with him and talking with him during the foreign relations committee, but a guy who is probably, as the old s