He told an especially instructive story about when he returned to the Senate as vice president and went into the Senate dining hall, where a central dining room table used to stand.
Republicans typically bring food from their home state during caucus lunch] “You walk in — a long table sitting, I guess, 16, 18 people on the right, parallel with the table,” he said.
“It’s hard to really dislike an individual that you strongly disagree with when you find out his wife is dying of breast cancer or he just lost a child or he’s having serious physical problems himself,” Biden continued, as he reminisced about the days when Democratic and Republican senators were forced by location to converse with each other every day.
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During President Joe Biden’s final major address on the economy, he did what he does best: wax poetic about the old days of the United States Senate, the institution that defined him.
